Obviously, just about everyone expected No. 5 Washington to beat the Cal football team with ease Saturday, and the Huskies did just that, winning 66-27. But how did we get here?
This wasn’t Cal coming up short against a team it’s traditionally been dominated by, such as USC. Instead, this was just Washington, a program that’s generally been pretty comparable to the one in Berkeley. Just last season, Cal went to Seattle and beat Washington. How did these Huskies quickly become one of the best teams in the nation while the Bears became one that could be a 17-point home underdog?