Rating the Bears: Cal vs. North Texas

Photo by Douglas Stringer/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The walking dead...aka the Cal offense for the final 50 minutes.After the 20-0 1st quarter lead, did you finally think this would be a blowout win over a team not named Oregon State? Oh, how wrong you were. It’s never that easy under Wilcox. It seems like every time we get a double-digit lead and look to turn a game into a blowout, the offense stagnates and it eventually becomes a one-score nailbiter. Last year a 24-3 lead against North Carolina evaporated in the fourth quarter en route to a 24-17 final score. The Bears could never shake BYU after taking a 14-3 lead last year but held onto a 21-18 win. A 21-0 lead over Colorado last year became a 6-point lead going into the 4th quarter. And of, course, there was last weekend’s game against North Texas.

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