A week has passed since the Big Game at Stanford, but there’s a glow around the Cal football program and everyone who cares about the team. In the realm of spiritual wins, the ones that delve straight into the soul, that was an all-timer.
How much so? Maybe the best in 16 years.
The Bears have certainty beaten better teams than that Stanford bunch in recent years. They knocked off Texas two years in a row (2015-16) and had bowl victories against Virginia Tech (2003), BYU (2005), Texas A&M (2006), Air Force twice (2007, 2015) and Miami (2008).