I suppose this is the apogee of Sonny Dykes football at Cal, no? After a tomato can game against Hawaii in Australia, Cal has played five games. In every single one of those games, one team trailing by 7 points or less has possessed the ball inside the final 3 minutes. In 8 out of 10 opportunities, a team has scored 40 points in regulation.
The Bears could be 6-0, or 1-5. They are, in fact, 3-3. That, in itself, is not a particularly surprising result. Berkelium’s final CGB crowd-sourced projections had Cal facing three near coin flips along with 3 likely wins, with an expectation of 4 wins in total (4.