Cal 48, Arizona State 46

The junior from Marin led a comeback from a 21-point first-half deficit, throwing four second-half touchdown passes before Matt Anderson kicked a 26-yard field goal with no time left in a 48-46 victory over Arizona State in front of 45,385 chilly fans.

Considered a first-round National Football League draft pick if he elects to leave school, Goff finished the game with five touchdown passes and a school-record 542 passing yards, becoming the first Cal quarterback to eclipse 4,000 yards in a season.

Two Pac-12 teams face off against one another on Saturday when the Arizona State Sun Devils travel to take on the California Golden Bears.

With his defense unable to slow down the Golden Bears offense in the second half, Graham knew it was just a matter of time before things fell apart. True to the see-saw nature of the game, Arizona State was ready with a counter-punch though, and the Sun Devils drove 76 yards in nine plays and tied the score on a 4-yard touchdown pass from Mike Bercovici to Raymond Epps. “There were times we didn’t do well and that costs us”.

The comeback was Cal’s biggest since the 2007 Armed Forces Bowl.

Bercovici completed 27 of 43 for 395 yards and four touchdowns.

Arizona State responded with a 24-yard field goal by Gonzalez to make it 30-17, but a 16-yard touchdown from Goff to Chad Hansen (Hansen’s first career TD) on Cal’s next drive made it a one-possession game and left the Bears down 30-24 with 6:36 left in the third quarter.

Six plays later, Anderson kicked the winning field goal.

Another heartbreaking loss in a disappointing season will set up Arizona State for a meaningless bowl game.

But the Sun Devils settled for field goals in the second half while the Bears scored touchdowns, an exchange that wound up costing Arizona State.

Three plays later Bercovici found wide receiver Devin Lucien on a crossing pattern for the first of three touchdowns by the Sun Devils’ duo.

Treggs, who entered the game with the highest per-catch average among all Pac-12 receiving leaders, now has 41 catches for 813 yards – an average of 19.8 yards per reception. Bercovici would find Lucien two more times in the end zone, once for three yards, and the next for 36 yards. “We didn’t get it done tonight”. It still wasn’t enough to cool down Goff, as he threw a pass to Khalf Muhammad on a play that went 58 yards for a touchdown.

Goff got the Bears going with a 52-yard touchdown to Bryce Treggs just before halftime. The teams combined for 1,266 yards, with the Bears gaining 680.