Can the Cougars keep up with Jared Goff and high-flying Cal?

No one who watched last year's game between Cal and Washington State will ever forget it for many reasons.

For the first time in college football history, a quarterback threw for 744 yards. It might happen again, but it's unlikely that the quarterback will be on the losing team like Connor Halliday was.

Cal beat the Cougars 60-59 after Quentin Breshears missed a 19-yard field goal that would have won it for the Cougs in the final seconds. Mikey, one of my twin sons, cried himself to sleep that night, and I remember going to bed being proud of him for caring that much. I was also thinking: "Poor kid, he's just getting his first taste of heartache; I've been dealing with it for 42 years!"

I also…