Rating the Bears: Cal vs. Oregon State

Remember what joy felt like? Neither do I. Photo by Douglas Stringer/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesHomecoming games have been particularly cruel to the Bears ever since that Bizarro World goal-line stand defeated Utah in 2016. In 2017 we fell just short in double-overtime against the Wildcats during peak Tatesplosion. In 2018 the team got lost in the tunnel and didn’t bother showing up against an utterly atrocious UCLA team. And this year we let the woeful Oregon State defense look like the ferocious Utah defense in a mind-bogglingly inept performance (speaking of which, who’s excited for a trip to frigid Salt Lake City this weekend? At least the game will end about 6 hours before the snow starts falling).

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