OK, I’ll get back to my regularly scheduled Catholic topics of discussion soon. But for now, consider the blog renamed: As we watch the Cal Bears.

In any case, as I predicted (see the post title), the Bears are up to 16th in the AP poll and 17th in the Coaches poll from 19th and 20th respectively. As I said, most pollsters don’t get in depth coverage of all the top 25 teams, particularly those lower in the polls and also those on the west coast (that ‘ol east coast bias). As such, Cal’ s mediocre performance and loss of its starting quarterback are completely irrelevant to the polls. All that matters is Cal 41, Sac State 3.

Plus it’s hard to lose ground when the likes of Oklahoma and Auburn lose to nobodies (TCU and Georgia Tech respectively) and Boise State is put back in its place (i.e. not worthy of a ranking) by Georgia. We leap frogged all three of those teams. We also leap frogged Texas A&M who lost to a respectable Clemson team.

However, one team leap frogged us: Arizona St. after beating up on Temple.

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