As far as dates in Cal football history go, November 20th, 2016 isn't likely to stand out to anyone.
It was a day devoid of amazing, sensational, dramatic, heart-rending, sensational highlights, destined never to appear on any future promo packages.
The Bears did not have a game.
They were, instead, licking their wounds coming off their seventh consecutive Big Game loss, a game that caused many, amid growing frustration with Sonny Dykes, to wonder if we would always be “Cal”.
Ah, yes.
“Being Cal", that favorite term of ours; a catch-all that basically means to expect the worst, to expect never winning, to expect failure to come effortlessly, and success only after taking the most excruciating path to get there.