Another year, another hard road for Cal. The California Golden Bears have been handed the most difficult schedule for the 2017 football season, according to the ESPN FPI. This is nothing new for the Bears, who have perennially been handed one of the most difficult schedules in the country and usually are ranked among the toughest schedule in the Pac-12.
Cal is one of the few major programs facing two Power 5 programs out of conference in North Carolina (on the road) and Ole Miss (at home). Cal will get this wonderful road slate house of horrors in Pac-12 play: At UCLA (where they’ve won once in the 2000s), at Oregon (where they’ve won once since the 1990s), at Stanfurd for Big Game (where they haven’t won since 2009), at Washington (one of the major Pac-12 champion contenders), at Colorado (the defending Pac-12 South champs).