Wow, you guys have the same number of wins as a school that just fired their coach and had a far, far less talented roster on the basis of recruiting rankings? Color me impressed.
That's true, and a legitimate point in this perspective. However, I don't think it would have resulted in more wins for you guys had you scheduled a lesser opponent each year early on, just less wear and tear on some of your players.
Maybe not scheduling lesser opponents for you guys is a truly stupid move that can affect a the team later on in a grueling season that's already full of challenging teams, even if it comes at the expense of the completely empty "Relative Scheduling Superiority" trophy you can claim here. It seems that just about every team schedules a considerable weakling each year. Cal has to face UCLA, USC, Oregon, Washington and Stanford on a yearly basis. At this point, I'm ok with us having a cupcake each year. It's not like we don't schedule any big name programs otherwise. Our SOS is always amongst the toughest even with patsies included.
To quote some guy that posts here with some regularity come each January: ROLL TIDE ROLL. Perhaps y'all should hook up with Alabama's scheduling people.
Cal is 7-6 in the Rally era, and before that I was (and still am) a huge UCLA fan as I came from a Bruin household. I've pretty much enjoyed the UCLA-Cal series for the entirety of my life.
As far as overall history: I strongly cherish the memories of our 5 national championships from 1920 to 1937, as I'm sure you cherish the memories of UCLA's football title in 1954.
The End?
Probably not. I imagine that this will be bookmarked and we're certain to see an iteration of "I agree" when you guys wipe the floor with us this year.