01-13-2015, 10:25 PM
Thanks for setting me straight, SeattleTree. Actually, the Pac-12 Blog's predictions are not too dissimilar from mine. They're saying that Stanford will be the second-best team in the Pac-12 North with a number of South teams ahead of it. I'm making some assumptions--Hogan stays, Mariota leaves--I'm looking at Stanford's 2015 schedule, and I'm predicting that Stanford will finish ahead of Oregon (i.e. we'll beat Oregon at home next year) but will lose a couple of games to teams from the South.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)