Boston College vs. California: Game Preview and Analysis

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00:00We'll turn our attention to Boston College and Chestnut Hill.

00:03Boston College lost two straight.

00:05They're coming out of a bye week.

00:06They're six and a half point home favorites over Cal.

00:10Cal started 3-0, Coach.

00:11They go on the road last week as a 14 and a half point road favorite to San Diego State.

00:16And they lose the game outright 34 to nothing.

00:19They're back on the road in Boston this coming weekend.

00:23I like Boston College, but I think Cal could cover this number.

00:27Well, I think they could.

00:29I just think you don't know.

00:30You've got a true freshman quarterback.

00:32Let me see if I can say it.

00:34Sagapulateli.

00:36I'm not even going to throw the first name with that one because it gets even harder.

00:40But they've got a true freshman quarterback traveling all across the country.

00:45And I think B.C. had a week off.

00:47I like their quarterback.

00:48He's a transfer from Alabama.

00:50A little more experienced, a little more of a veteran in a game like this where both teams.

00:55And then I was really kind of got a good feeling about Cal for three weeks.

00:59They're out there, I think, scoring 33 points a game and doing a great job.

01:04All of a sudden, they get blown out by San Diego State last week, 34 to nothing.

01:09And I said, oh, my goodness.

01:10It's back to peg one on that.

01:13But I do like the fact that you've got a little more veteran quarterback at Boston College.

01:17They've had a week off, and I think they'll be home, and they'll get back in the groove in this ballgame.

01:25Yeah, when you look at this game overall, and we had talked about it earlier last week,

01:29is that Justin Wilcox, prior to that game against San Diego State, was just 6-13 the previous three years on the road or on a neutral field.

01:39They go on the road to San Diego State.

01:41They stay within the state, and they have a blue-collar group in the Aztecs that just beat them up on both sides of the football.

01:48What have they learned from that loss last week?

01:51They came out flat.

01:52They got punched in the face, and now they go cross-country for an early kick here in Chestnut Hill.

01:58I'm inclined to take the 6-1 just because they got shut out.

02:02I understand that Boston College and their quarterback, Lonergren, very disappointing in their last loss to Stanford.

02:09They were double-digit favorites.

02:10They lose that game outright 30-20 in Palo Alto.

02:14They're coming out of a bye week.

02:15Maybe they come out a little bit flat.

02:17But for the coaching perspective, knowing that you haven't stepped up over the previous three seasons

02:23and knowing that Justin Wilcox potentially is on the hot seat for the most part,

02:28from a motivation standpoint, what could he tell Cal or get the players ready that they weren't ready last week?

02:35Well, and again, a lot of that goes you don't know quite why they weren't ready

02:39because they had so much to gain this season, and they just went backwards so far.

02:44If I'm the head coach, I probably don't even show them that.

02:47Maybe Sunday they get to see that video once and then get rid of it, don't show it again,

02:53get them back in a positive mode that they were becoming in those first three games

02:57because whatever happened, if they correct their mistakes and play like they did in those first three games,

03:03this is a game that they can come across the country and win a football game.

03:09And so he's got to just get them to forget about that one.

03:11And maybe deep down inside, he's hoping that that one did not represent the direction they were going.

03:17But you definitely want you to get that out of your kid's mind if possible.

03:21Hey, we are pretty good.

03:22We were 3-0.

03:23Let's get back and focus on what we were doing right and start again with Boston College.

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