Utah vs. California: Online Live Stream, TV Broadcast Info

It will be televised at on ESPN at 8 p.m. MT with Dave Pasch, Brian Griese and Tom Luginbill calling the game. An interview loomed with Rich Eisen on Sirius XM. First as wide receivers coach and later as coordinator, Dykes helped Leach popularize the so-called “Air Raid” offense before spending leaving to spend three years as OC under Mike Stoops at Arizona.

And despite not even playing, Utah (4-0, 1-0 Pac-12) climbed five spots in both the Associated Press and Amway Coaches polls.

Cal, Utah’s next opponent, has been another team on the rise in the Pac-12.

A year ago, shortly after his inaugural game with the Bears, Kaufman gathered the 25 defenders who’d been on the field for the team’s season opener at Northwestern. With the spotlight on the Utah Saturday, the Utes can show a few more prospects what their futures could be. There really wasn’t an underdog I felt great about this week.

Junior quarterback Jared Goff said the Bears can’t get ahead of themselves.

Telling Stat • We’ve been telling you about it all week, but Thursday night’s shocker in the Coliseum makes it that much more relevant: Visiting Pac-12 teams are 9-2 in conference play this season and 42-23 since the start of 2014. He promises that these picks will make you rich beyond your wildest dreams. “We’re all very motivated, so we set high expectations for ourselves”. Utah is tough as nails this year, and have already proven they are a legitimate force with wins over Oregon and Michigan. The Bears, after all, are afforded the same choice as anyone about to step into an abyss: Either you can fall, or you can fly.

While Whittingham knows his offense will have to protect the ball in order to win, just as they have been doing this year, the defense will have to do its part in trying to take the ball away from Cal’s offense, too.

It seems like every week bear fans are saying “Cal played well, but needs to play better next week”. Cal played Oregon at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, and USC at the L.A. Coliseum. He’s generated four of the Bears 18.0 sacks this season, six more than Washington State’s 12.

“We thought this was a special team from the very beginning and I think everyone on this team has believed in that concept”, linebacker Jared Norris said. It’s just Michigan’s has been better. We have two ranked teams on bye this week, Stanford and UCLA. The four starters have combined for 47 career starts, and will benefit from the return of DE Hunter Dimick who spent two weeks spent recovering from injury. Goff also has a deep, talented crew of receivers who might tax a Utes secondary that was a question in the preseason. There has been no update on the status of freshman running back Marcel Brooks-Brown (gunshot wounds) or sophomore guard Lo Falemaka (gunshot wounds). They may not be in the top 10 in the rankings anymore, but they have enough athletic juice on both sides of the ball to be a really scary team. Previous experiences include 2010’s matchup against then fourth-ranked TCU (Utah was ranked sixth), and the 2004 rivalry game against BYU.

With two such greedy defenses on the field Saturday, winning the turnover battle becomes of particular importance. “He sits in the pocket – bam! – takes it in the mouth, and turns around and throws a bullet for a touchdown”. Goff (as detailed in the story above) thrives on pressure, so it’s critical for Utah to be able to mix up coverages and stay glued to Cal’s handful of reliable wideouts. The Canes blew a 16-0 lead to Florida State previous year and have lost five in a row to the Seminoles overall, their worst streak since losing seven straight from 1963-72.

“I’m kind of aggravated with it a little bit”, Lasco said this week. Carter doesn’t think there’s any danger of overconfidence or complacency. “There is somewhat of a similar feel with the national attention we’ve received and that type of thing, but there’s so much football left that it’s just pointless to talk about anything but Cal Berkeley”.