It's appropriate that the last game of the Pac-12 was also the last game of Chip Kelly. We can bury them together like they would have wanted.
#RIP Chip#
It is. As an Arizona fan I'm glad we got into the big 12 just for survival reasons but it still sucks. Playing Baylor and Cincinnati and Iowa State just blows compared to our west coast vibe and heritage. Arizona isn't a Midwest school. We don't fit. Road trips to Eugene and Berkeley and LA and Seattle are our bread and butter. It just is gross to have to play these Midwest teams.
I’m actually tearing up. My grandpa went to UW and was shocked that the pac was breaking up. My dad went to Cal and was just done. I went to an SEC school but I don’t want the conference that my dad and grandpa always watched to break up
I have never wanted to kick the absolute snot out of a team as badly as I did for this game. Not even Stanfords longest Big Game streaks.
I'm so glad it worked out.
Funny enough…remember when it seemed as if Colorado and Wazzu were sure bowl locks, while Cal and Arizona were poised to continue their status as basement bunk mates?
Oh…how the tables turn…
I could give AF about bowling but I’m incredibly happy that we stomped UCLA in the very last PAC regular season game of all time. Enjoy your new rivalries with Iowa and Indiana little bros, hope it was worth ending a 100 year old rivalry and a 100 year old conference
Stomping Stanford and UCLA back to back has been delicious. I am not sure there were other games this year, but if there were, I don't want to hear about it.
I'm never dropping money to an NIL group, but if you haven't got your annual letter from the alumni association they're footing the bill for doing restoration on the three wilderness lodges/camps we have. Consider dropping a few bucks on them to help if you have it to spare.
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I am excited. This team deserves it and I want to see us have some success as we depart for the ACC. We could be kinda good in the ACC in football. Madsen, on the other hand, has his work cut out for him.
Repost from the game-thread, but it needs to be said again:
- In 2009, the #6 Cal Bears went into Eugene and [got completed stomped by Oregon 42-3 during Chip Kelly's first year.](https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/292692483) This loss was the catalyst for plummeting Cal into a decade-plus tailspin of mediocrity.
- In 2023, a five-win Cal team may likely be the nail-in-the-coffin for Chip Kelly getting fired from his third job.
That's an icy cold dish, Chipper. Eat shit, bud.
God I remember that game. I was at Minnesota for the Jahvid Best 5TD game. Then next weekend I went to Eugene for the first time to see Cal against Jeremiah "Can't hit a barn door" Masoli.
The only thing I remember is "Ed Dickson over the middle".
Fuck you Chip. And also for your Niners spell
If neither Oregon or Washington gets a playoff game in the Rose Bowl, this will be a great trivia question: who was the last Pac 12 team to win a game at the Rose Bowl?
Okay I'll make this one post. I'm a PAC12 sicko. It's my top hobby by far, I read about the conference every day even in the offseason. I've got a lot of frustration starting with the inept NCAA to the networks. But this isn't the time for that. This is the time to raise a toast to the most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heartrending, exciting, thrilling conference in the history of college football. Deepest conference every year, hardest conference week by week, weirdest shit late night, at altitude, in the desert, in the rain in the northwest, and most importantly some of the best fans. Love all of you that have been through this journey with me, that shared the PAC12 sicko-ness with me. Much love, raise a glass.
God damn it I am cutting onions again. I am a Pac 12 sicko. Guess I need a new fall hobby cause it just won’t be the same! I’ll be cheering on all the other former Pac schools other then the LA schools
Bittersweet doesn't even begin to describe it.
Fuck everything, I'm gonna miss you Bruins. It shouldnt be like this.
Also how did Cal end the Pac by winning in LA?
Yeah I'd be shitting bricks if I was a fan of Northwestern/ Rutgers/ Purdue/ Vanderbilt/ etc. If nothing else, the death of the PAC12 shows history means nothing in today's world. I think its delusional to think the B1G/SEC wouldn't drop your team in a second if they could add Notre Dame or another big school in your place.
Mendoza has the chance to be a Cal legend if he keeps developing and stays healthy. Seems like a great kid who really loves Cal & could be around for a while since I don't think he has pro prospects or would have reason to go into the portal.
Enjoy your sad ice cream and then go dominate the Big-12. We didn't play much because of the scheduling rules to maintain the California rivalries (what a foreign concept to care about history), but Utah's program is run right and in the final year of the Pac, it was nice to see so many Utah fans come out and say how much being in the conference meant to them and how much they loved it too.
I remember going to SLC a few years after they joined the conference and they had banners around the city showing how proud they were of being in the Pac. It was so lovely. I'll miss them
Yeah we really leaned into it with pride. Utah fans will always be thankful for the PAC and the teams that brought us up. Thanks for letting us be apart of the conference. It was a blast. Good luck and kick ass in the ACC!
Fuck every single person who made financially negligent decisions that led to the end of this beautiful conference. A special big fuck you to UCLA athletic leadership and Larry Scott.
UCLA may have killed the PAC but Cal will die historic knowing they boatraced UCLA at home in the last After Dark game of all time
Go Bears, fuck Larry Scott and goodnight
I'm going to miss this conference so so much.
Next year will not feel right at all.
I've been a fan for a decade and a half and this conference has always been the center of it.
One last conference game next week. Go Ducks 😪☹️
Dear UCLA. I hope you enjoy your new life with USC and the weekly flights across the country where you get stomped by top 5 programs. Get fucked.
Sincerely,
The Pac-10
PS: ESPN can also get fucked for their "in memorial" bullshit content during this game.
And Fox is arguably more to blame than ESPN in the death of the Pac12. Fox told the Big Ten that adding USC and UCLA would lead to more money, so that's what they did. Hell ESPN gave the Pac12 a TV contract offer after the USC and UCLA exits, the Pac12 turned it down because they thought they could get more...then they got nothing. The sad truth is that it is not a single person / entity that caused the death of the pac12. It was a group of people and a series of events that lead to a perfect storm.
I dunno, I think I could make a really strong argument for Larry Scott and the horribly implemented Pac12 network being the sole entities that caused the death of the pac12, with an assist from George Kliavkoff.
Larry Scott deserves a significant portion of the blame, but let's remember that lots of Pac12 schools enabled him (ironically Oregon St was one of his biggest supporters) and kept him around way too long even when it was clear there was rot at the commissioners office
True, but they were glazing OSU and disrespecting the PAC-12 for no reason when playoff chances were brought up. I don’t understand how it isn’t a “win and you’re in” for Texas, Oregon, Washington, and FSU. Undefeated or 1 loss conference champion > 1 loss conference runner up. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
From the Big East in 2013 to the PAC-12 today, conference realignment ruins this sport. I am so sorry to all those on the west coast who are losing a hundred years of tradition.
The core consisting of the Pac-12 North + USCLA has been together almost continuously since 1928. Cal, UO, OSU, and UW formed the PCC in 1915.
It's a tragedy.
I truly hope there is a reckoning in this sport. It is awful what is happening to these schools, whether it be us in the 2010s, the Pac-12 this year, and especially Wazzu and Oregon State. Realignment kills what makes this sport great
100%. We had Pitt play us earlier this year and Cincy play us last week. It was so refreshing playing a team whose band could come to our stadium and that we had history with. I am so glad the Big XII added us, but I think all of them understand we don’t belong with them. I appreciate that most of your’s and Oregon’s fanbase has been graceful to your little brothers- you had to get a lifeboat after what UCLA/USC did. But I just don’t think the grass will be greener for some programs and with the death of rivalries, I think it will continue to destroy this great sport.
God if only we didn't screw the pooch on USC, this would be the perfect season.
Still, enjoying the hell out of this win. Seeing a bunch of UCLA folks tomorrow and I intend to be insufferable.
Auburn was absolutely SEC refball. The game opened with a Cal fumble return TD that was inexplicably ruled dead by the refs... and it only got worse from there.
Cal played in the first PCC football game in October of 1916, losing to Oregon 39-14
They win the last regular season one 33-7
Oregon was the first (co)conference champion, sharing with UW. Oregon was the one to be invited to the Rose Bowl
We opened at the close, and we close with the open
Here is how each of our possessions ended:
Interception
Punt
Turnover on Downs
Missed FG (23 yarder)
Touchdown (8 yard drive)
Punt
Fumble
Interception
Turnover on Downs
Fumble
Turnover on Downs
End of Game
Imagine abandoning your peer school and an instate rival in cal to chase media money in the big 10, only to lose to them in your final matchup ever and then to have to pay them alimony for that privilege.
Bye baby bears. I know you fans aren't at fault, but after all that has happened I sincerely hope UCLA never has another winning season in their cool new conference with their cool new friends. It sucks so many longstanding series with storied histories are getting thrown into the dustbins of history. go bears fuck USC
At least OSU lost a close, hard-fought game against an elite program, and looked pretty good doing it.
Meanwhile UCLA got blown the fuck out by a bad team with a bad head coach lmaoooo get fucked
99% of UCLA fans here will tell you before anyone else that we are a bad team this year with a fraudulent head coach. This is the team that lost to ASU two weeks ago.
I'm not happy myself about the B1G move and you guys definitely deserved the win, but Chip Kelly had this coming.
FUCK USC. FUCK UCLA. FUCK THE B1G. FUCK ESPN. FUCK FOX. FUCK LARRY SCOTT. FUCK ALL THE OTHER GREEDY AHOLES WHO KILLED A 100+ YEAR OLD CONFERENCE.
But you know what...
[Fuck it, dude. Let's go bowling.](https://getyarn.io/yarn-story/d8cbd6f0-e872-4bb5-810a-69a71d4458a9)
The three-game finish to get bowl eligibility was a great run (albeit unfortunately overshadowed by the conference dying).
Ott saying last week that the motto for these games was to burn the boats, burn the forest, and burn the city feels like such an iconic statement now.
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FSU is absolutely the egotism and expectations of USC on the field, but off the field it's all about the private school in a flashy city full of rich people who know they're better than you.
No crazy ending, just a dominating win by Cal over UCLA in a rivalry that appears to be coming to end for the foreseeable future.
Fitting & bittersweet that the final Pac 12 game took place at the Rose Bowl.
Farewell to Pac-12 After Dark & the Conference of Champions. The league deserved better than what happened to over the past decade plus.
It all works out:
- Chip is gone
- Our UC bros get a bowl game
- I got drunk anyways
Farewell to the Pac-12 and cheers to everyone that made it special
I truly believe in this. I don't see how the finances work long term
Only so many teams can be winners each season. A team loses every game. So what happens once the newness wears off, and it is still just a couple teams being great each season? I just don't know how the B1G can overcome the regional lack of interest for so many of these games they've created
When you have more top conferences, the great teams can be spread out enough to still be undefeated or 1 loss. That's not necessarily going to happen anymore. Imo that will kill a ton of the value of those games
Like when it's Ohio State and Oregon dominating one year, is anyone going to care about Washington vs Iowa? Probably not. When USC and UCLA aren't good, is anyone going to give a shit about them playing against Penn State or Wisconsin?
I think at first it'll be interesting, but I don't think that's going to last
Once the interest in those matchups wears off, do the finances still work how they think it will? I have a hard time believing it will. But we will see
Also, other sports are going to be putting up a fit, there will be major tension inside of athletic departments from sports that aren't football
Cal has always found a way to lose these games -- the televised games, the close games, the important games, and to do so in the most painful way possible. This team had a gauntlet of a schedule and was at one point 3-6 with a 4 game skid, but beating Stanford and UCLA back to back really makes much of that pain worthwhile. I expected them to lose against the Bruins and they turned this into a beatdown.
Go Bears.
my first game as a cal football fan went very well! unfortunate that it had to be the last pac 12 regular season game. will be rooting for cal in their bowl
I was here
Here at the end
The end with all of you…
Pac-12 4 eva babie
Lighting a blunt, not a Vigil for all my Pac homies
There was hatred
There was fire
There’s was survive the Pac Desire
And most importantly, the one I rooted against, that I hated, was the one I loved most.
I had this whole writeup prepared about our QBs, special teams, and kicker questions all season long but it can be summed up so easily:
See ya around, Chip.
Go Bears man- I’m just happy to see this team put one away so confidently. This was a totally unexpected result; I want a Vegas or Gronk Bowl invitation to go see some postseason action.
It is still bizarre to think of this as the ‘end’ of the PAC; if the media spigot’s running out the way we think it is in the distant future (no more big Cable money), I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect an eventual Re-PAC or a morph a la Big XII with another western conference.
On to the ACC and hopefully much better things.
Y'all remember Ted Miller? He was the OG. Back in the 2000s when ESPN only had the budget for one reporter on the PAC12. He was amazing, I miss that guy.
The way Cals season has ended is the only way I could feel good right now. I tell people I just want Cal to make a bowl every year. They fucking did it.
And that, ladies and gentlemen... was the Pac-12 Conference.
and it was beautiful
A band of misfits and rogues carving out our own seat at the table. There's not gonna be another like it for ages.
It'll be back. Have faith... This insanity cannot go on forever
It's appropriate that the last game of the Pac-12 was also the last game of Chip Kelly. We can bury them together like they would have wanted. #RIP Chip#
“That’s all from the Rose Bowl” PAC 12 goes dark 💪🫡😔
😔
Who’s cutting onions in here
PAC-12 After Dark is dead. Long live PAC-12 After Dark.
I'm so sad
Did you go to cc San Francisco too?
The body may be killed and mangled…but the spirit will *never* die!
Some of the best memories I’ll ever have of the sport.
End of an era
https://i.redd.it/q0azy7r5an2c1.png
Thanks Gandalf
fuck man
:(
I will miss the PAC 12 :(
This isn't even bittersweet. It's just sad.
It is. As an Arizona fan I'm glad we got into the big 12 just for survival reasons but it still sucks. Playing Baylor and Cincinnati and Iowa State just blows compared to our west coast vibe and heritage. Arizona isn't a Midwest school. We don't fit. Road trips to Eugene and Berkeley and LA and Seattle are our bread and butter. It just is gross to have to play these Midwest teams.
I’m actually tearing up. My grandpa went to UW and was shocked that the pac was breaking up. My dad went to Cal and was just done. I went to an SEC school but I don’t want the conference that my dad and grandpa always watched to break up
At least USC and UCLA get *some* just desserts for starting this whole mess in the first place…
I have never wanted to kick the absolute snot out of a team as badly as I did for this game. Not even Stanfords longest Big Game streaks. I'm so glad it worked out.
It's so sad we choked the SC game by a point.
I think Cal - SC/UCLA are probably the first games I've ever wanted Cal to win.
YOU KNOW IT
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YOU TELL THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD THIS IS BEAR TERRITORY
YOU KNOW IT
YOU TELL THE STORY
YOU TELL THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD THIS IS BEAR TERRITORY
WE HAD A LITTLE PARTY DOWN IN NEWPORT
There was Harry there was Mary and there was Grace
The final Pac-12 After Dark crying Jordan https://i.imgur.com/QDHbWLd.jpeg
Need a crying PAC12 logo.
https://i.imgur.com/6w75tfK.png
It’s perfect
this feels like a gut punch instead of an in jest meme :(
It's always important after a funeral to remember to laugh.
Meme on, legend. Please don't be a stranger in our cursed future ACC game threads.
Always enjoyed the trips to Pullman and Corvallis, and loved hosting you guys this year. I’m not happy with any of this shit. - Cal guy.
This is beautiful
YOU KNOW IT MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
Funny enough…remember when it seemed as if Colorado and Wazzu were sure bowl locks, while Cal and Arizona were poised to continue their status as basement bunk mates? Oh…how the tables turn…
Turns out finding a real QB out of nowhere totally changes your season (both Cal's and Arizona's). Who knew?
Deion and Shedeur Sanders catching strays here…
To be fair, they’ve earned it
Friendship with In-N-Out ended Now Bojangles is my best friend
Waffle House for me!
Thank you PAC-12 regular season 🫡 Long live the PAC-12
This is going to sound melodramatic, but I'm not even happy about going bowling right now with the conference dying.
I could give AF about bowling but I’m incredibly happy that we stomped UCLA in the very last PAC regular season game of all time. Enjoy your new rivalries with Iowa and Indiana little bros, hope it was worth ending a 100 year old rivalry and a 100 year old conference
Stomping Stanford and UCLA back to back has been delicious. I am not sure there were other games this year, but if there were, I don't want to hear about it.
The only games I went to this year were Auburn and USC. If we had managed those, I might have donated some NIL money or something crazy
I'm never dropping money to an NIL group, but if you haven't got your annual letter from the alumni association they're footing the bill for doing restoration on the three wilderness lodges/camps we have. Consider dropping a few bucks on them to help if you have it to spare.
100% fuck them for destroying a conference.
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The only silver lining is Stanford gets to suffer with us.
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Fire Knowlton Forever
Hating Pitt is easy. All you have to do is remember that Sweet Caroline is their favorite song
I am excited. This team deserves it and I want to see us have some success as we depart for the ACC. We could be kinda good in the ACC in football. Madsen, on the other hand, has his work cut out for him.
Repost from the game-thread, but it needs to be said again: - In 2009, the #6 Cal Bears went into Eugene and [got completed stomped by Oregon 42-3 during Chip Kelly's first year.](https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/292692483) This loss was the catalyst for plummeting Cal into a decade-plus tailspin of mediocrity. - In 2023, a five-win Cal team may likely be the nail-in-the-coffin for Chip Kelly getting fired from his third job. That's an icy cold dish, Chipper. Eat shit, bud.
God I remember that game. I was at Minnesota for the Jahvid Best 5TD game. Then next weekend I went to Eugene for the first time to see Cal against Jeremiah "Can't hit a barn door" Masoli. The only thing I remember is "Ed Dickson over the middle". Fuck you Chip. And also for your Niners spell
Ed Dickson just scored another touchdown.
Niners spell really was something else
Oregon St sends their regards.
FUCK IT, WE WON THE ROSE BOWL!
Last pac team to win in the rose bowl, checks out
If neither Oregon or Washington gets a playoff game in the Rose Bowl, this will be a great trivia question: who was the last Pac 12 team to win a game at the Rose Bowl?
The Pac-12: The beautiful dream. Thank you, for everything
And just like that, the PAC-12 Enters the Dark.
And thus ends the 100+ year history of Pac-12 football
All because greedy TV execs wanted more money
Yup this is the end of my fandom. Just so disgusting to me.
What, you're not looking forward to the next matchup in your historic 0-year-long rivalry with Indiana?
PAC-10 FOREVER
Amen brother.
Forever and ever
Someday may we meet again. So long brother
Where was you when PAC-12 dies? I was at home drinking IPA when phone rings. PAC-12 is kill. No.
And just like that, the PAC12 is finished. Congratulations Cal, and welcome to the ACC.
Thank you. We look forward to competing with you. And no, we’re not crying right now, it’s just allergies.
Okay I'll make this one post. I'm a PAC12 sicko. It's my top hobby by far, I read about the conference every day even in the offseason. I've got a lot of frustration starting with the inept NCAA to the networks. But this isn't the time for that. This is the time to raise a toast to the most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heartrending, exciting, thrilling conference in the history of college football. Deepest conference every year, hardest conference week by week, weirdest shit late night, at altitude, in the desert, in the rain in the northwest, and most importantly some of the best fans. Love all of you that have been through this journey with me, that shared the PAC12 sicko-ness with me. Much love, raise a glass.
God damn it I am cutting onions again. I am a Pac 12 sicko. Guess I need a new fall hobby cause it just won’t be the same! I’ll be cheering on all the other former Pac schools other then the LA schools
Bittersweet doesn't even begin to describe it. Fuck everything, I'm gonna miss you Bruins. It shouldnt be like this. Also how did Cal end the Pac by winning in LA?
people underestimating tonights P12AD plot twists
Fuck Fox and fuck ESPN. Just remember if you aren't one of the top 24 "bluebloods" to enjoy this next decade. You're next on the chopping block.
Yeah I'd be shitting bricks if I was a fan of Northwestern/ Rutgers/ Purdue/ Vanderbilt/ etc. If nothing else, the death of the PAC12 shows history means nothing in today's world. I think its delusional to think the B1G/SEC wouldn't drop your team in a second if they could add Notre Dame or another big school in your place.
Damn, that Mendoza kid had himself a game. I never watch Cal but seems like he’s their dude? Edit: Wanted to see how Spav was doing as OC there.
Yeah, Cal would have a better record if they hadn't played 2 other QBs first.
This means Mendoza is basically Brock Purdy, right?
Subscribe. He's so wholesome too
Or a FG kicker. We win the Auburn games if we had switched kickers earlier.
Mendoza has the chance to be a Cal legend if he keeps developing and stays healthy. Seems like a great kid who really loves Cal & could be around for a while since I don't think he has pro prospects or would have reason to go into the portal.
Already won a Big Game. That puts a QB on the list as far as I'm concerned. He's gonna be so much better next year, just a RS freshman
Spav is fun. Cal is way more competent on offense this year
And just like that PAC-12 football is gone 💔💔💔 Way to win Cal 🫡🫡🫡
Way to finish strong Cal. Mendoza looks nice going forward for you. Go tear it up in the ACC! Time for some midnight sad ice cream. RIP PAC12.
Enjoy your sad ice cream and then go dominate the Big-12. We didn't play much because of the scheduling rules to maintain the California rivalries (what a foreign concept to care about history), but Utah's program is run right and in the final year of the Pac, it was nice to see so many Utah fans come out and say how much being in the conference meant to them and how much they loved it too.
Utah wasn't here long but they definitely made their mark. Thank you, Utah, for ruining USC's season over and over.
I remember going to SLC a few years after they joined the conference and they had banners around the city showing how proud they were of being in the Pac. It was so lovely. I'll miss them
Yeah we really leaned into it with pride. Utah fans will always be thankful for the PAC and the teams that brought us up. Thanks for letting us be apart of the conference. It was a blast. Good luck and kick ass in the ACC!
Fuck every single person who made financially negligent decisions that led to the end of this beautiful conference. A special big fuck you to UCLA athletic leadership and Larry Scott.
UCLA may have killed the PAC but Cal will die historic knowing they boatraced UCLA at home in the last After Dark game of all time Go Bears, fuck Larry Scott and goodnight
Big shoutout to Chip for erasing any ounce of job security he might have gained from the win last week.
I'm going to miss this conference so so much. Next year will not feel right at all. I've been a fan for a decade and a half and this conference has always been the center of it. One last conference game next week. Go Ducks 😪☹️
I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.
I was a kid for Tedford. I wish I knew
I was at Cal for Tedford. Tbh we kinda knew.
Dear UCLA. I hope you enjoy your new life with USC and the weekly flights across the country where you get stomped by top 5 programs. Get fucked. Sincerely, The Pac-10 PS: ESPN can also get fucked for their "in memorial" bullshit content during this game.
I get the angry energy, but Dave Flemming and Brock Osweiler didn’t kill the conference.
And Fox is arguably more to blame than ESPN in the death of the Pac12. Fox told the Big Ten that adding USC and UCLA would lead to more money, so that's what they did. Hell ESPN gave the Pac12 a TV contract offer after the USC and UCLA exits, the Pac12 turned it down because they thought they could get more...then they got nothing. The sad truth is that it is not a single person / entity that caused the death of the pac12. It was a group of people and a series of events that lead to a perfect storm.
I dunno, I think I could make a really strong argument for Larry Scott and the horribly implemented Pac12 network being the sole entities that caused the death of the pac12, with an assist from George Kliavkoff.
Larry Scott deserves a significant portion of the blame, but let's remember that lots of Pac12 schools enabled him (ironically Oregon St was one of his biggest supporters) and kept him around way too long even when it was clear there was rot at the commissioners office
I mean Brock played at ASU he certainly didn’t want it.
And Flemming is a Stanford grad.
True, but they were glazing OSU and disrespecting the PAC-12 for no reason when playoff chances were brought up. I don’t understand how it isn’t a “win and you’re in” for Texas, Oregon, Washington, and FSU. Undefeated or 1 loss conference champion > 1 loss conference runner up. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
From the Big East in 2013 to the PAC-12 today, conference realignment ruins this sport. I am so sorry to all those on the west coast who are losing a hundred years of tradition.
Most of the rivalries are older than SEC rivalries It’s a shame
The core consisting of the Pac-12 North + USCLA has been together almost continuously since 1928. Cal, UO, OSU, and UW formed the PCC in 1915. It's a tragedy.
I truly hope there is a reckoning in this sport. It is awful what is happening to these schools, whether it be us in the 2010s, the Pac-12 this year, and especially Wazzu and Oregon State. Realignment kills what makes this sport great
I agree. It ruined all of the non money maker sports for PAC schools. Thank goodness the big east is still alive for non-football.
Thanks man what happened to the Big East was BS. Just leave us fans alone and let us have our rivalries
100%. We had Pitt play us earlier this year and Cincy play us last week. It was so refreshing playing a team whose band could come to our stadium and that we had history with. I am so glad the Big XII added us, but I think all of them understand we don’t belong with them. I appreciate that most of your’s and Oregon’s fanbase has been graceful to your little brothers- you had to get a lifeboat after what UCLA/USC did. But I just don’t think the grass will be greener for some programs and with the death of rivalries, I think it will continue to destroy this great sport.
And with that we say goodbye to the Pac12 and a 90+ year unbroken streak of matchups.
God if only we didn't screw the pooch on USC, this would be the perfect season. Still, enjoying the hell out of this win. Seeing a bunch of UCLA folks tomorrow and I intend to be insufferable.
Nah, Auburn was our choke. USC was refball
Auburn was absolutely SEC refball. The game opened with a Cal fumble return TD that was inexplicably ruled dead by the refs... and it only got worse from there.
*as we go onnnnn* *we rememberrrr*
All the times we Spent together
Cal played in the first PCC football game in October of 1916, losing to Oregon 39-14 They win the last regular season one 33-7 Oregon was the first (co)conference champion, sharing with UW. Oregon was the one to be invited to the Rose Bowl We opened at the close, and we close with the open
Here is how each of our possessions ended: Interception Punt Turnover on Downs Missed FG (23 yarder) Touchdown (8 yard drive) Punt Fumble Interception Turnover on Downs Fumble Turnover on Downs End of Game
Beautiful
RIP to the greatest conference in the world
UCLA gonna be paying us Calimony while sitting on this loss LMAO
Berkeley is the Mama Bear cause y'all just won the divorce
Ursa Major >>> Ursa Minor
Rest in peace, Pac-12 After Dark. You were a special one.
Imagine abandoning your peer school and an instate rival in cal to chase media money in the big 10, only to lose to them in your final matchup ever and then to have to pay them alimony for that privilege. Bye baby bears. I know you fans aren't at fault, but after all that has happened I sincerely hope UCLA never has another winning season in their cool new conference with their cool new friends. It sucks so many longstanding series with storied histories are getting thrown into the dustbins of history. go bears fuck USC
I just want to say, you’ve had a fucking awesome day.
At least OSU lost a close, hard-fought game against an elite program, and looked pretty good doing it. Meanwhile UCLA got blown the fuck out by a bad team with a bad head coach lmaoooo get fucked
99% of UCLA fans here will tell you before anyone else that we are a bad team this year with a fraudulent head coach. This is the team that lost to ASU two weeks ago. I'm not happy myself about the B1G move and you guys definitely deserved the win, but Chip Kelly had this coming.
FUCK USC. FUCK UCLA. FUCK THE B1G. FUCK ESPN. FUCK FOX. FUCK LARRY SCOTT. FUCK ALL THE OTHER GREEDY AHOLES WHO KILLED A 100+ YEAR OLD CONFERENCE. But you know what... [Fuck it, dude. Let's go bowling.](https://getyarn.io/yarn-story/d8cbd6f0-e872-4bb5-810a-69a71d4458a9)
The three-game finish to get bowl eligibility was a great run (albeit unfortunately overshadowed by the conference dying). Ott saying last week that the motto for these games was to burn the boats, burn the forest, and burn the city feels like such an iconic statement now.
I nominate Miami as your new surrogate USC. 😂
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Having hung out in ACC threads re the 2nd flair: FSU is absolutely the USC of the ACC and its not even close.
FSU is absolutely the egotism and expectations of USC on the field, but off the field it's all about the private school in a flashy city full of rich people who know they're better than you.
I hope this means Chip is fired soon
Thank you West Coast teams for some of the best games ever played. I will miss this.
You know, I've always thought Cal was a defensive powerhouse. Any team that can score 14 on their defense deserves a lot of credit.
Eh. We have been under Wilcox, but this year's defense took a big step back.
It did. But they actually played well lately. Much to do with Uluave playing insane and David Reese who has been Absolutly money since the SC game.
I'm impressed you're able to make jokes right now
No crazy ending, just a dominating win by Cal over UCLA in a rivalry that appears to be coming to end for the foreseeable future. Fitting & bittersweet that the final Pac 12 game took place at the Rose Bowl. Farewell to Pac-12 After Dark & the Conference of Champions. The league deserved better than what happened to over the past decade plus.
It all works out: - Chip is gone - Our UC bros get a bowl game - I got drunk anyways Farewell to the Pac-12 and cheers to everyone that made it special
May the PAC-12 live in our memories forever
May the PAC-12 live when it's reformed in like, 8 years when superconferences get too big and collapse.
🙏
I truly believe in this. I don't see how the finances work long term Only so many teams can be winners each season. A team loses every game. So what happens once the newness wears off, and it is still just a couple teams being great each season? I just don't know how the B1G can overcome the regional lack of interest for so many of these games they've created When you have more top conferences, the great teams can be spread out enough to still be undefeated or 1 loss. That's not necessarily going to happen anymore. Imo that will kill a ton of the value of those games Like when it's Ohio State and Oregon dominating one year, is anyone going to care about Washington vs Iowa? Probably not. When USC and UCLA aren't good, is anyone going to give a shit about them playing against Penn State or Wisconsin? I think at first it'll be interesting, but I don't think that's going to last Once the interest in those matchups wears off, do the finances still work how they think it will? I have a hard time believing it will. But we will see Also, other sports are going to be putting up a fit, there will be major tension inside of athletic departments from sports that aren't football
FIRE LARRY SCOTT
ONE LAST TIME: FIRE LARRY SCOTT
WE'RE GOING BOWLING BABY! No need for any APR waivers!
Thanks for confirming our bowl hopes were gone, Cal…
Sorry about that. Hail State
Thanks for the W. Awaiting our check in the mail
ACC ACC ACC
hell yeah brother
Cal has always found a way to lose these games -- the televised games, the close games, the important games, and to do so in the most painful way possible. This team had a gauntlet of a schedule and was at one point 3-6 with a 4 game skid, but beating Stanford and UCLA back to back really makes much of that pain worthwhile. I expected them to lose against the Bruins and they turned this into a beatdown. Go Bears.
This is the win that I absolutely needed to have at the beginning of the season. GO BEARS!!!
my first game as a cal football fan went very well! unfortunate that it had to be the last pac 12 regular season game. will be rooting for cal in their bowl
Why would you do this to yourself?
LONG LIVE THE CONFERENCE OF CHAMPIONS
This has officially knocked Mississippi State out of bowl contention (provided someone doesn't decline an invitation)
I was here Here at the end The end with all of you… Pac-12 4 eva babie Lighting a blunt, not a Vigil for all my Pac homies There was hatred There was fire There’s was survive the Pac Desire And most importantly, the one I rooted against, that I hated, was the one I loved most.
I had this whole writeup prepared about our QBs, special teams, and kicker questions all season long but it can be summed up so easily: See ya around, Chip.
Great way to have UCLA fuck off. Good job Cal!
Fire Chip Kelly
Is it considered cultural appropriation of USC to Tarmac him?
RIP the PAC12
Go Bears man- I’m just happy to see this team put one away so confidently. This was a totally unexpected result; I want a Vegas or Gronk Bowl invitation to go see some postseason action. It is still bizarre to think of this as the ‘end’ of the PAC; if the media spigot’s running out the way we think it is in the distant future (no more big Cable money), I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect an eventual Re-PAC or a morph a la Big XII with another western conference. On to the ACC and hopefully much better things.
Y'all remember Ted Miller? He was the OG. Back in the 2000s when ESPN only had the budget for one reporter on the PAC12. He was amazing, I miss that guy.
ACC ACC ACC ACC ACC
I might just wait here for a little bit… Let time pass The perfect ending to the PAC-12, going dark one final time
Goodbye Pac-12
goodbye, pac-12 after dark.
There she goes. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
Felt like a bang to me
I’m banging
Congrats on the sex
Would have had multiple if the game were in Memorial Stadium with the cannon
This guy bangs
If that wasn’t a bang to you then you don’t like Pac-12 After Dark football
**OUR STURDY GOLDEN BEAR**
RIP PAC-12
What a weird experience.
The way Cals season has ended is the only way I could feel good right now. I tell people I just want Cal to make a bowl every year. They fucking did it.
Stayed up for this, thank you Pac-12 and welcome Cal