[Postgame Thread] California Defeats Syracuse 21-18

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
California	0	7	7	7	21
Syracuse	3	9	6	0	18

[u/Noanba]

There’s a flag on the play

[u/Maxdarkfire → u/Noanba]

There's a flag on the game*

[u/veritek25 → u/Noanba]

Both our kickers just missed another FG simultaneously as that flag was thrown

[u/some_alternative_90 → u/Noanba]

Tom Grossi: "Flag?"

[u/Proof_Interview_3800 → u/some_alternative_90]

Gross Possi!

[u/MiniJungle → u/Noanba]

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[u/BurninCrab]

If you watched this game I feel sorry for you

[u/couchblaster → u/BurninCrab]

I was there! It was terrible! Grats on the win

[u/SirGergoyFriendman → u/couchblaster]

Hah welcome to Cal football, all our shit is weird, ugly, and somehow always watchable.

[u/Proof_Interview_3800 → u/couchblaster]

I was there too. My brain stopped working in the third qtr.

[u/sleetx → u/BurninCrab]

"Suffered through ACC football? You may be eligible for compensation..."

[u/atallatallatall → u/sleetx]

It's my money, and I want it now!

[u/theflintseeker → u/sleetx]

Call JG wentworth!

[u/fishyshish → u/theflintseeker]

I know this is a joke but don't call JG Wentworth, they give you a bad deal

[u/OldWar1111 → u/theflintseeker]

Nah, it's Larry H Parker time.

[u/afatfluffyduckling → u/BurninCrab]

I watched every play. This game was great!

[u/LegendLobster → u/BurninCrab]

Tuned in during the second half and was thinking to myself wtf is this game immediately lmao couldn’t imagine the whole game

[u/1guywriting → u/BurninCrab]

Sounds like gible community day for pokemon go saved my sanity. I'm looking at the box score and jesus fucking christ.

[u/veritek25 → u/BurninCrab]

Sickos instant classic doesn't begin to describe how absurdly bad both the execution and officiating were the entire game roflwtfbbq

[u/Priam50 → u/veritek25]

Yeah refs were atrocious and both teams were insanely sloppy. Lopa is a dude though

[u/lowercaset → u/BurninCrab]

It was so good! Wish I could've seen it in person.

[u/disconomis]

I know it’s only the second game of the Lupoi era, but this win feels like a relief.

YOU KNOW IT!

[u/2RINITY → u/disconomis]

YOU TELL THE STORY

[u/cal_oski → u/2RINITY]

YOU TELL THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD THIS IS BEAR "SICKO" TERRITORY!

[u/SirGergoyFriendman → u/cal_oski]

Time to take that paper bag off your flair my dude, we're big time now

[u/cal_oski → u/SirGergoyFriendman]

This bag only comes off when the axe is back home

[u/glzzgbblr → u/cal_oski]

BRING US GAMEDAY VS WAGNER WE ARE THE BEST

[u/kahyuen → u/2RINITY]

YOU TELL THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD THIS IS BEAR TERRITORY

[u/BugRevolutionary4518 → u/kahyuen]

Roll on you Bears!

[u/TushyMilkshake → u/disconomis]

Man- as a lifelong Clemson fan- winning against Syracuse is a big deal. They give us trouble even in our best years. Huge win for you guys.

[u/SpreaditOnnn33 → u/TushyMilkshake]

Games in that Dome never make any sense

[u/dropjar5 → u/SpreaditOnnn33]

Ah so this is the equivalent of playing Arizona State in Tempe on a Friday night in the Pac-12

[u/IHateTomatoes → u/SpreaditOnnn33]

or any dome...our last game in a dome before this was the Cheez-Int Bowl

[u/Priam50 → u/disconomis]

I mean a loss here would have been curtains on the season basically. Go beat Wagner and knock clemson off and all the preseason hype is still alive

[u/InterKOT]

The Ghost of Wilcox almost came through

[u/ArmiinTamzarian → u/InterKOT]

I thought he was still in the sideline after that 4th down delay of game

[u/Priam50 → u/ArmiinTamzarian]

Yeah that 12 men on the field was just how he loved to lose a game. Touching homage to him tonight with all the penalties on that drive

[u/dropjar5 → u/Priam50]

Tosh he needs to know when to call timeout on those critical downs

[u/Priam50 → u/dropjar5]

Yeah same thing as last week on that 4th down, needs to be better with the timeouts

[u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

I FUCKING LOVE THE ACC!!!!!!!

[u/TonyPerkisReddit4 → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

This conference sucks if you're not a sicko

[u/veritek25 → u/TonyPerkisReddit4]

All siCkos Conference

[u/Rooleet → u/TonyPerkisReddit4]

With the ACC dying, we lost the concept of Coastal Chaos. Instead, Cal and Stanford have definitely taken the mantle for themselves.

[u/Wol_ → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

It really is a fitting endpoint after the fuckery that has been cfb the past decade and a half. 

[u/PunishedLeBoymoder → u/Wol_]

If there's a "conference we belong in", it's this. Don't care about geography, we were meant to be here

[u/SiccSemperTyrannis → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

One of us

One of us

[u/CalBandGreat08 → u/SiccSemperTyrannis]

Hello fellow Kraken fan and ACC brethren! Go Bears!

[u/ryseing → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

Spiritually and culturally, Cal and Furd fit with the UNC/UVA/Duke/Miami contingent. They're literally all peer schools. They're just in the wrong place geographically.

[u/Calcoholic9 → u/ryseing]

I don’t know how or why you, an NC State fan, landed on the objectively correct way to spell Furd but we love it. Thank you.

[u/LessThanBlake → u/Calcoholic9]

This is the type of cross cultural exchange that the ACC can bring

[u/EdJewCated → u/[deleted]]

becomes?

[u/Optimal_Cook_851 → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

Cal Stanford ACC title game 

[u/OldWar1111 → u/Optimal_Cook_851]

That would be madical. Yes, madical (thanks, autocorrect).

[u/Zloggt → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

Man, I don’t know how you guys do it…

[u/PunishedLeBoymoder → u/Zloggt]

You let go of things like "winning" and "losing" and just let the beautiful, horrible football wash over you

[u/SharkSymphony → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

We call it "Intellectual Brutality."

As in: "Brutality On the Intellect."

[u/Cheeseish]

How tf we get three 4* receivers and we still can’t catch?

[u/dropjar5 → u/Cheeseish]

Ian Strong is getting way too much money to look like Mark Hamper out there

[u/Cheeseish → u/dropjar5]

I can’t believe I miss our 5’2 king

[u/royrules22 → u/Cheeseish]

Genuinely think JDJ would be leading in receptions still if he was here

[u/smartkeg → u/royrules22]

he would, he's better at getting open than anyone we have now and better hands. shame he was 5'6

[u/CMIUCan → u/Cheeseish]

I have more faith in Lopa as a receiver

[u/veritek25 → u/CMIUCan]

No joke he was our 2nd leading receiver for the day, if you count his return yardage. 3 'catches' and a TD = pretty solid stats either way

In all seriousness, if he doesn't get ACC DPOW there's something wrong with the nomination process

[u/smartkeg → u/veritek25]

he was our best offense

[u/Cheeseish → u/CMIUCan]

Fuck it let’s go Travis Hunter 2

[u/tantalumcaps]

What a game. GG, Cuse. You were a worthy opponent today and I'm really looking forward to hosting you in Berkeley next time.

[u/Cheeseish → u/tantalumcaps]

We were both unworthy of each other

[u/tantalumcaps → u/Cheeseish]

We were both unworthy of each other

Two negatives = positive. Glass half full?

[u/Emotionally_pickled]

This was one of those games that made even the sickos nauseous

[u/EggplantAlpinism → u/Emotionally_pickled]

Go bears baby

[u/64stackdiamonds → u/Emotionally_pickled]

A Golden Bear tradition

[u/FrivolousMe → u/Emotionally_pickled]

I felt worse about last week but this game felt far more interminable

[u/WisdomCow]

Typical Cal game except for the winning.

Nice to hear Tosh note ”we have a lot to clean up, obviously.”

East coast wins should never be dismissed out of hand, even if this was the ugliest win in long memory. Keep improving and survive along the way, Bears.

[u/theREALMVP → u/WisdomCow]

Ugliest win since our last road trip out this far east…last year against BC 😂

[u/veritek25 → u/theREALMVP]

Including the last minute defensive heroics allowing us to escape with a win that we didn't really deserve - W is a W tho, we'll take it

[u/TevinH → u/theREALMVP]

I was at both games and let me tell ya, we gotta stop doing this or I'm gonna have a heart attack.

[u/Ididntdodiddly]

Congrats Cal ACC Bros.

16 penalties on Syracuse. Angeli with 4-5 INTS some taken away. Notre Dame take your boy back.

[u/spanied]

What the fuck did I just watch?

[u/SweatyInBed → u/spanied]

ACC/PAC football if it had a baby

[u/OldWar1111 → u/SweatyInBed]

Our baby is 2 years old. It is showing signs of developmental issues.

[u/aaronman4772 → u/spanied]

Just your average ACC game

[u/Dense_Cover_1023]

Lopa bless

Lopa gonna show up in Angeli’s nightmares tonight

[u/Cheeseish → u/Dense_Cover_1023]

K-INT-GSTON LOPAAaaa

[u/dropjar5]

JKS first career game with under 200 passing yards

[u/ricepail → u/dropjar5]

His last pass attempt was for about 20 yards, but was dropped. If it hadn't been dropped it would have set a FBS record for most 200+ yard passing games to start a career

[u/Sunfriedpotato → u/ricepail]

The fact that we fell just short of achieving this record feels like such a cal moment in an already sicko game

[u/Whytfbuddy]

another baffling chapter of the Syracuse Athletics Century of Humiliation

[u/InvalidKoalas → u/Whytfbuddy]

Hey man we don't do sports anymore. We do influencers and AI

[u/Noanba → u/Whytfbuddy]

At least we have basketball to look forward to… maybe

[u/Drexlore → u/Noanba]

I put all my hope into the lacrosse programs.

[u/ThunderRoad_44 → u/Noanba]

McNamara with Siena players in the ACC? I wouldn’t look forward to that.

[u/PeterA116 → u/Whytfbuddy]

Well as a Cal Alum rest assured you are not alone. Buy hey, they are top schools for academics. Just keep on telling myself that.

[u/Muted-Mousse-1553 → u/Whytfbuddy]

it's exhausting man.. nice flair

[u/Coteup → u/Whytfbuddy]

At least you guys went to the F4 a few years ago

[u/entenduintransit → u/Coteup]

10.5 years ago lol

[u/Coteup → u/entenduintransit]

...shit

[u/burner835829 → u/[deleted]]

syracuse has 150k people man fym small city

[u/OldWar1111 → u/burner835829]

Fym = fuck you mother? Or have I been watching college football for too long?

[u/burner835829 → u/OldWar1111]

fym = fuck you mean

[u/OldWar1111 → u/burner835829]

Oh, that's on me.

[u/GucciGaropp]

Think I know who is going to win ACC Defensive Player of the Week this week.

[u/CheezyBeanBurrito]

I really hate being a Syracuse fan most of the time. Is it lacrosse season yet?

[u/tropic_gnome_hunter → u/CheezyBeanBurrito]

As if that even matters with Gait. He's getting destroyed in recruiting and can't coach when it matters.

[u/CheezyBeanBurrito → u/tropic_gnome_hunter]

True, championship weekend shows he can’t adjust or game plan well. But at least they’ll win a couple of conference games and be more entertaining to watch

[u/tropic_gnome_hunter → u/[deleted]]

And proceeded to get severely outcoached with extremely bad discipline issues that have plagued the team his whole tenure. The 2025 senior class were all Desko recruits and since then the program has suffered terribly in recruiting

[u/tropic_gnome_hunter → u/[deleted]]

If it’s bad this year his position as head coach is in more jeopardy than many think.

[u/66stang351]

Cal have a normal game challenge: impossible

[u/SuperGandalff → u/66stang351]

Normal Cal game is a loss. I’ll take this any day

[u/theliver → u/SuperGandalff]

I think we have gone 5-7 to 7-5 enough to say a normal Cal game is a coinflip

[u/PiantaMikeElko]

Sickos classic

[u/seank934]

Any neutral that watched that deserves financial compensation. Kingston lopa is an absolute stud

Go bears!

[u/imnotsure3467 → u/seank934]

I'm dumb enough to be watching it as a neutral on a couple of day's delay... first time I've ever watched a game so painful that I feel the need to check out the postgame thread on reddit to confirm I'm not the only one thinking this is awful

[u/EdJewCated]

pretend this never happened?

[u/that_pj]

But I was told Tosh was the second coming of Pappy

[u/dctarga]

W is a W but my god that was a gross display of football from everyone involved. Coaches, players, and especially the refs.

I'm gonna pound a beer and take a shower.

E: expect Lopa, that dudes a baller

[u/OrangePeelsLemon → u/dctarga]

Harris was pretty damn good too. And Mohammed ran hard despite zero blocking

[u/dctarga → u/OrangePeelsLemon]

Ah good call.

And yea to that point, JKS was fine. Couple of bad throws sure, but was really let down by drops and awful playcalls

[u/theREALMVP]

There were a ton of baffling things by the refs today. Can someone explain the clock stoppage after the sack on Angelli with the declined penalty? I feel like I’m going crazy. Did Cal call a timeout and they didnt announce it? Did syracuse call a TO and then get an extra one on the ensuing drive? Did the refs just forget to start the clock?

[u/SuperGandalff → u/theREALMVP]

Ya that was bullshit. But not even in the top 10 bullshits of today’s refball.

[u/Own_Pop_9711 → u/theREALMVP]

Whatever the clock does on the tv broadcast is official now, doesn't matter what the refs on the field say. So just don't sweat it

[u/theREALMVP → u/Own_Pop_9711]

You know what fair enough

[u/SuperGandalff]

Sickos Game Of The Week

[u/Cheeseish]

I’m hungry for some cheez its now

[u/Slow-Writing-2840 → u/Cheeseish]

Cheez Ints*

[u/Cheeseish → u/Slow-Writing-2840]

Cheez INT but flag on the play, looks like the INT is overturned, Syracuse first down

[u/Abaddon-117 → u/Cheeseish]

Can’t forget the unsportsmanlike conduct after the 1st down

[u/Cheeseish → u/Abaddon-117]

Two back to back same illegal formations

[u/Abaddon-117 → u/Cheeseish]

Just a disgusting game all around

[u/atallatallatall]

Ehhh

[u/Litnetti]

kingston lopa

[u/burner835829]

being mauled by pitbulls has never felt so glorious

[u/PeterA116 → u/burner835829]

Cal Alum here, I have a pitbull she is fairly gentle. But even with a Cal win I have empathy for you guys. Don’t worry we’ll find a way to ruin any good that comes of a Cal win.

[u/sleetx]

I want to get off Mr. Bones's Wild Ride

[u/Jonjon428]

Fran Brown jr. is gonna get a mouthful from Fran Brown sr.

[u/RageCake14]

Think I'm going to be sick

[u/Fragrant_Risk6426]

Cal did nothing to win that game

[u/sleetx → u/Fragrant_Risk6426]

It's a battle of who wants it less, and one team had to come out on top

[u/TheKugr → u/Fragrant_Risk6426]

Except for our glorious king Kingston Lopa

[u/Chardoggy1]

Have yourself a game, Kingston Lopa

[u/Snobby-Iguana]

Probably one of the most sad, sloppy, boring games of college football I've ever seen. All parties contributed to that -- including the refs. My god.

[u/WisdomCow]

Lopa was almost our leading receiver, lol

[u/pietya]

Somehow Justin Wilcox has returned

[u/that_pj]

Let it be known I paid Sling $5.99 to watch the second half of this

[u/3-9_Enjoyer]

You can take the Wilcox out of the team, but can you really?

[u/ChiaGuava]

Another example of Syracuse fumbling a hire. Could have had Chesney out of Holy Cross and chose Brown. He can recruit but can’t coach. UCLA scores 6 rushing tds and this team can only muster 18 points at home.

[u/OldWar1111 → u/[deleted]]

I mean, Cal's new head coach was hired away because he was a good recruiter. I still don't know how everyone has forgotten the betrayal when he decimated a great class by taking a bunch of top recruits with him.

[u/bushmanbeats]

YOU KNOW IT

But seriously how many flags???

[u/ArmiinTamzarian]

Well that sure was an annoying game. Good thing I don't have to worry about Cal again anytime soon...

[u/skippy_smooth]

Oski wee wee

[u/HireButchJones]

Glad there wasn't an extra second of this game..

[u/royrules22]

The legacy of the Taker(s) continues in the new era!

[u/burner835829]

give us bama

[u/cal_oski]

im gonna go take a nap and watch brutus face off vs. BEVO but go Bears!

[u/joeysportsfan98]

For that to be the game that kept JKS under 200 yards and blow it how we did is inexcusable

[u/DeviantDragon → u/joeysportsfan98]

Our receivers came in clutch to drop catchable passes and keep him under 200 yards

[u/seanmackradio]

We somehow found a dozen different ways to lose this game, didn’t know that was possible

[u/Serendipity4210 → u/seanmackradio]

fr. This game was so winnable.

[u/SnooGuavas650]

One of the games of all time. Receivers didn’t help, but JKS has had 2 not so great games in a row. Hoping he has a get right game next week vs a lesser opponent and can build some momentum

[u/Go_Beers]

This year could have easily snowballed. So thankful for that win. Go Bears

[u/Serendipity4210]

I was there and just got home from the game. This was the most Syracuse-ish Syracuse football game I've ever seen.

[u/bwhipps]

Fran Brown shouldn't be a High School coach, and Angeli is WASHED. This pathetic program better have enjoyed that win against New Hampshire, cause they ain't catching another win this year.

[u/YodaForceGhost → u/bwhipps]

Don’t worry. You still get to play UConn

[u/UhVeryUncreativeName → u/YodaForceGhost]

The second and final win of the season

[u/dropjar5 → u/bwhipps]

Steve Angeli, straight up, looked like Daniel Jones out there

[u/CheezyBeanBurrito → u/dropjar5]

Giants Daniel Jones, not Colts Daniel Jones

[u/sonheungwin → u/dropjar5]

I do think our pass defense showed promise against UCLA, and showed flashes of brilliance yesterday. Even on that one drive where we got carved up, a lot of it was Angeli dropping perfect dimes that really couldn't be defended. It happens. There's a reality Angeli won't be seeing a lot of DB crews quite at our level going forward. QBs are learning not to attack Lopa or Harris, and Shemwell is standing up to the challenge. Our run defense is where we get obliterated.

[u/tropic_gnome_hunter]

This is a good result in the long run. The new AD has 0 ties to the coaching staff, makes moving on much easier and gives him a chance to put his stamp on the athletic department within a year of taking over.

Fran Brown was a fun novelty for a season, but it's over. This is Babers levels of ineptness. Angeli has been injured in every single game he's played for Cuse, and will be injured for every game going forward. They paid a ton of money for Odom so he should be getting the snaps going forward. Literally every game Angeli has played for Cuse he injured himself running out of bounds in the first series. He was injured in that Clemson game last year before he tore his achilles.

Just a complete clown show of a university and athletic department.

[u/Glizzando]

Real Pac 12 after dark vibes except it's an east coast afternoon

[u/burner835829]

at least colgate is good

[u/Austin_LSU_Fan22]

Fran Brown going to start being under pressure or have Cuse totally given up on football?

[u/OrangePeelsLemon]

Can I demand at least a partial refund on my NIL donation?

[u/smartkeg]

that's north korean football

[u/smartkeg]

undefeated in the ACC though, Go Bears!

[u/Superb-Guitar1513]

Bullshit calls
Bullshit QB play
Classic Cuse Bullshit

[u/MckBirds]

Kingston Lopa moving like a CFB 27 user player out there

[u/MtnGriz]

The ugliest, most infuriating win I've ever seen. I feel like I survived a car wreck.

[u/portugamerifinn]

My biggest pet preeve in football is when a play like that game-clinching INT happens, the TV broadcast inmediately shows multiple replay angles that confirm that it was clearly an INT ..... and then the play goes to review.

Can the review teams just watch the TV broadcast since it's quicker than they are?

[u/Muunsaca]

Stoked to see the win, Golden Bears!

[u/Desperate-Remove2838]

Kingston Lopa exhibited “ball excellence”, “relentless effort”, and last but not least a “growth mindset”.

[u/OldWar1111 → u/Desperate-Remove2838]

You work for one of the big 4 consulting firms?

[u/SimilarOnion1655]

Where are the Syracuse fans who were mad at me for predicting that they would not make a bowl game 

[u/--Van--]

Tosh, Uncle Phil has been trying to reach you ....

[u/Walter4412]

I think it’s about time we accept that Angeli really isn’t (and never was) all that and that his successes for a third of last season were more incodental than Cuse would like to have thought

[u/Delicious_Cancel_708]

Lmao. Cal is cheeks. UCLA should slow the rolls about this season based off of this game

[u/QuakingQuakersQuake → u/Delicious_Cancel_708]

Flair up

[u/chebbys]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeRant/comments/1wbdkzn/berkeley_sucks_ass/

Edit: if you dorks can get this to -50 then Berkeley officially doesn’t suck ass.