The Best Team is in the 650, not 510

As far as Bay Area football teams go at least. Today showed that the power of Bay Area football is shifting away from the town where homeless people are everywhere back to Palo Alto, where the homeless can be found around Pizza My Heart. Unfortunately, I got to experience the Cardinal domination with my bare eyes as UCLA got caught flat footed against Toby Gerhart and even more surprisingly, Andrew Luck. I remember last year where it took half the defense (and/or Brian Price) to tackle Gerhart, so that aspect of today's game came as no surprise. What I was really shocked about was the passing game. Andrew Luck has an absolute cannon, and the receivers from Stanford seemed to hold up well against the Bruin secondary. Sure I read the reports about how good Luck should be, and all that jazz, but I did not believe that for one second. After today, I am a believer. Not only is his right arm plain silly, but the guy can move well. He managed to burn the defense today for multiple rushes of over ten yards. He was basically as cool as the other side as the pillow (a Stuart Scott line). His counterpart from Cal? Not so much. To be honest, it was not all Kevin Riley's fault Cal stunk it up (again) against those thugs from South Central LA, but he just did not look good. He had multiple plays where he overthrew his receivers, and was pretty darn inaccurate: 15-40, 199 yards, 0 TD's, and an INT. In all honesty, Cal looked absolutely pathetic once again, about as much as it did last week at Autzen Stadium.
To me this is kind of sad. Cal was supposed to finally have a good year, and not one filled with choking. They were supposed to be the team to dethrone the evil Trojans. Now they are 0-2 in the Pac-10, and basically have to win their remaining seven games if they want a shot at their first Rose Bowl in 51 seasons. The irony is that even with Stanford's massive struggles this decade, they were in the 2000 Rose Bowl and are now in better position to get there than their East Bay rivals. Their chances of actually make it there are pretty darn slim, but either way, they look MUCH better than those Golden (not so much) Bears. Whats next for these two Bay Area teams? Stanford has a trip up to Corvallis to take on the Beavers and then to Tuscon to play UofA, while Cal rests up for a week before busing down I-5 to the Rose Bowl to take on the Bruins. One Question for Cal fans, when was the last time you actually won a game at the Rose Bowl? Good luck trying to find it on Google.

Clue: It was not this decade...