buffs04
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Why should the quality of the team have anything to do with the degree to which they are affected by altitude?
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We're actually favorites vs Cal
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Why should the quality of the team have anything to do with the degree to which they are affected by altitude?
buffs04
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As an aside, with regards to Vegas: Vegas lines are chosen to guarantee a profit to the house, regardless of the outcome of the game. They don't reflect the opinions of calculating, neutral experts, by in large: instead, they aggregate information from the betting public, and that includes many woefully-uniformed individuals as well as professional gamblers.
It's just team quality overall. 2013 Cal is probably the worst BCS to come to Folsom in a while. All players get tired from the altitude but better teams are going to have better depth (Cal has had a lot of injuries this year) and probably better athletes.
On the road not really
That would be a mobile QB
Goff chucks it around a lot which means he will probably rush for 200 vs the Buffs.
Tractor
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Walter White
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Beating Cal would be a very very good sign. The first step is beating the teams that you "should" beat, then beating the teams that are roughly an even match in terms of talent. I believe things can snowball in games against far superior opponents and can mask legit improvement.
Go ahead and look at both sides of the matchup
Effort from both teams has been crap of late. The team that tries the hardest wins it.
Since all teams can basically run circles around our roster, Cal wins this one on talent alone. Since 2010 their recruit classes have ranked 11, 17, 23 and 32 per Rivals. Their guys will be bigger, faster and stronger than ours, just like everyone else in this conference. Sucks.
How many of the players from those classes are actually playing? Can you explain why CU is ranked #85 in the Sagarin Rankings and California is #114? Why does THIS site give us a 61.1% chance to beat Cal? Why does Vegas have us favored? Go ahead, explain how your logic surpasses math
Deleted member 807
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Basically Vegas calls the teams even and throws CU a bone for home field advantage.
is there a line for Cal QB Jared Goff to have a career day and look like a Heisman candidate?
is there a line for Cal QB Jared Goff to have a career day and look like a Heisman candidate?
Vegas more often than not is right
SJBuff
Club Member
We win against Cal.
My apologies to Flukes but the Cal team is falling apart right now. I went to a game and the body language of the players, both on the field and on the sideline, is that of a team that has quit for the year. The scuffle in their locker room, off field issues, etc. all point to a team that is dealing with some serious internal strife and looking forward to the season ending.
On Saturday they will come out with high energy but there will be no determination behind it. If we can play tough and contain them to a touchdown or two in the first two quarters, they will quit and we will win the second half easily.
We need the running game to hammer them hard early so their safeties have to crowd the line, and then it's Prich TD time.
This is our game!!
My apologies to Flukes but the Cal team is falling apart right now. I went to a game and the body language of the players, both on the field and on the sideline, is that of a team that has quit for the year. The scuffle in their locker room, off field issues, etc. all point to a team that is dealing with some serious internal strife and looking forward to the season ending.
On Saturday they will come out with high energy but there will be no determination behind it. If we can play tough and contain them to a touchdown or two in the first two quarters, they will quit and we will win the second half easily.
We need the running game to hammer them hard early so their safeties have to crowd the line, and then it's Prich TD time.
This is our game!!
BlackNGold
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This is a winnable game. MacIntyre and his staff has to get his team believing that. Cal is the one Pac12 team I have not watched this year so I have no feel for them. The fear I have is CU's inability to put teams away (even our FCS games were competitive until late). If Cal hangs around in the game it could spell trouble. Both teams are tired of losing - we will see which team wants to change their destiny more. Cal is playing a lot of young guys and CU is playing at Home. I would give the edge to CU but it is a thin edge.
I've seen Cal a couple times. They look confused. Like they don't quite know what they're supposed to be doing at any given time. They have talent. They have speed, size, strength. But they lack cohesiveness. The thing is, that cohesiveness is something they can eventually put together. Size, strength, and speed isn't.
They have also been decimated by injuries which doesnt help your cause either, they remind me of 2006 us. On paper they should have some players but coaching, injuries and general turmoil are preventing them from putting it together.
that is what is going to doom us I'm afraid. They, like everyone else, are not afraid of our altitude either...way overrated.
Deleted member 807
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So 3Dimes on CU and 2Dimes on Cal.
And 4 out of 5 dentists recommend chewing Trident.
Numbers don't lie.
NYCGOBEARS!
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I don't think that our team has quit per se. I just think that they've been completely demoralized more than a few times. This game is a head scratcher. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 7-6 or 55-51 game or a complete blow out. Who wins? Got me...
Sorry bud but being ranked 85 and 114 respectively means absolutely nothing at that point. Just means that both teams are ****. 61% sounds like a lock!