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Experts discover that we don't always lose to CAL!!!! (Cal thought of too highly)
RaceBannon
Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 101,258
Don't ask me why because I am going to tell you but it really bothers me when Husky fans say we always lose to Cal because we don't. There is a sweet spot of losing to Cal that many here grew up in so they naturally think that way. It was Jeff Tedford and Aaron Rodgers against Gilby Ty and Smilin Carl Bonnell. We not only lost we lost in historic beat down fashion including giving up 56 at Husky Stadium.
Cal won 5 straight from 02 to 06. I still maintain the 02 loss at Husky Stadium cost Rick his job. It was that shocking to lose to a team we had beaten 19 straight times.
19 straight times from 76 to 01.
19 straight.
We? have gone 9-3 since that streak. The three losses are horrible and unacceptable but still only 3 losses in a dozen years does not mean we always lose to Cal.
My dad hated Cal and as @BearsWiin and I discussed this fall, true Huskies and Bears know of a rivalry that goes back to the Gil Dobie era
From the 20's to Don James Cal did have a winning record against UW. I recall my dad getting pissed as we? lost to Cal and he was listening on the radio. My very first Husky game was against Cal, a scintillating 7-7 tie in 1968. He hated the California schools and looked at the NW schools as a nuisance like any REAL DAWG fan
Anyway the 19 game streak gives us a 14 game series lead and over the last 40 years we always beat Cal. 28-8. 28-3 without the aberration. We should be in another streak but Jake Browning. And Haener
Cal won 5 straight from 02 to 06. I still maintain the 02 loss at Husky Stadium cost Rick his job. It was that shocking to lose to a team we had beaten 19 straight times.
19 straight times from 76 to 01.
19 straight.
We? have gone 9-3 since that streak. The three losses are horrible and unacceptable but still only 3 losses in a dozen years does not mean we always lose to Cal.
My dad hated Cal and as @BearsWiin and I discussed this fall, true Huskies and Bears know of a rivalry that goes back to the Gil Dobie era
From the 20's to Don James Cal did have a winning record against UW. I recall my dad getting pissed as we? lost to Cal and he was listening on the radio. My very first Husky game was against Cal, a scintillating 7-7 tie in 1968. He hated the California schools and looked at the NW schools as a nuisance like any REAL DAWG fan
Anyway the 19 game streak gives us a 14 game series lead and over the last 40 years we always beat Cal. 28-8. 28-3 without the aberration. We should be in another streak but Jake Browning. And Haener
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Marshawn was more instrumental in beating UW than Rodgers was
Cal had some great players in the 70's and pretty good teams that couldn't get past McKay or Ralston. Stanford won back to back Rose Bowls in 71 and 72 I think. Plunkett and then Bunce
Both the Bay Area teams suffered in the 80's and James never lost to either that decade
Rodgers was QB for the 54-7 game in 2003
HTH.
Bears win!