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Cal hosts Colorado for Senior Day on Saturday. The Golden Bears will honor 24 student-athletes before the game. 
Cal is bowl eligible and one victory away from securing its first winning season since 2015 when the Golden Bears were 8-5.
Cal has held its last four opponents to 12.5 points per game and 100 yards or less rushing (90.5 ypg).
Cal is allowing 21.1 points, 134.9 rushing yards and 183.8 passing yards and 318.7 total yards per game. The pass defense ranks first in the Pac-12.
Defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter was named a semifinalist for the Broyles Award on Tuesday, honoring the top assistant coach in college football.    
Jordan Kunaszyk and Evan Weaver lead all Power 5 duos in total tackles per game (22.3), which is also second among all FBS teams.
Burlsworth Trophy finalist Patrick Laird needs 229 rushing yards to become the third player in Cal history to rush for 1000 yards in multiple seasons (Marshawn Lynch, Russell White). Laird is also 37 rushing yards shy of 2000 for his career.
The Big Game originally scheduled to be played Nov. 17 was postponed due to poor air quality, marking the first postponement of the contest since 1963. The Big Game is scheduled for Dec. 1 at California Memorial Stadium.  

Shut-Down Defense
Cal has held its last four opponents to 100 yards or less rushing (90.5 avg), including a season-low 79 yards at Washington State, and have held five opponents to 100 yards or less rushing this season for the first time since 2010. The last time Cal held four consecutive opponents to less than 100 yards rushing came in 2004 and that squad did it nine times total. 
Cal's defense has held its opponents to under 300 yards of total offense five times including a season-low 241 total yards against Oregon State – the lowest ever under head coach Justin Wilcox and the least by a Cal defense since giving up 224 against Washington State in 2011. 
Cal has held its last four opponents to fewer than 20 points (50 total) for the first time since five consecutive opponents under 20 points spanning the final three games of 2008 and first two of 2009.
Cal has allowed its opponents to score on only 30-of-134 drives (22.4%). 
Cal is ranked among the nation's top 35 in several key defensive categories including defensive touchdowns (T11th, 3), first downs defense (T12th, 176), passes intercepted (T13th, 14), total defense (18th, 318.6 ypg), team pass efficiency defense (18th, 111.97), passing yards allowed (20th, 183.8 ypg), third-down conversion percentage defense (22nd, 32.9%), scoring defense (T28th, 21.1 ppg) despite opponents' defensive scoring six touchdowns and rushing defense (34th, 134.8 ypg).
Cal leads the Pac-12 in first downs defense, passes intercepted, team pass efficiency defense and passing yards allowed while co-leading the conference in defensive touchdowns.
In the last four contests, Cal has allowed averages of 12.5 points, 90.5 rushing yards per game and 292.5 total yards per game with eight turnovers, 14.0 sacks and 32.0 tackles for loss.

Dynamic Duo At Inside Linebacker
Evan Weaver and Jordan Kunaszyk are Cal's leading tacklers this season with 114 for Kunaszyk and 109 for Weaver. The last time Cal had two players with 100 tackles or more was in 2007 (Thomas DeCoud 116, Worrell Williams 105, Anthony Felder 101). 
Kunaszyk and Weaver lead all Power 5 duos in total tackles per game (22.3), which is also second among all FBS teams. Their combined average of 13.9 solo tackles per game leads the nation.
Kunaszyk is second in the nation in solo tackles (7.6) and eighth in the in total tackles per game (11.4) per game, while Weaver is eighth in solo tackles (6.3) and 13th in total tackles (10.9).
Kunaszyk and Weaver have each notched double-digit tackles seven times this year, combining for over a third of Cal's tackles (33.7%, 223 of 661).
Kunaszyk boasted a career-best 22 tackles vs. UCLA, which equaled the most by a Cal player since Jerrott Willard collected 22 against USC in 1993. He is on pace for 148 over a 13-game season, which would be the most since Willard finished with 147 in 1993. 
Kunaszyk also has team highs of 11.0 tackles for loss and four forced fumbles, while his 4.0 sacks equal the team's most. He ranks tied for first in the Pac-12 and tied for third nationally in forced fumbles per contest (0.4). The last time a Cal player had four forced fumbles in a season was Zack Follett in 2006.   
Kunaszyk's career totals include 239 tackles, 18.0 TFL, 7.5 sacks, three interceptions, five forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries with all categories except the interceptions leading all active Cal players. 
Kunaszyk is 19 tackles from Cal's career top-10 list and 18 shy of the single-season list.   
Weaver garnered Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week honors on Oct. 29 after collecting 11 tackles and returning his first career interception for his first touchdown against Washington. He garnered career highs of 2.5 tackles for loss and 2.0 sacks at USC.

DeRuyter Named A Semifinalist For Broyles Award
Defensive coordinator/outside linebackers coach Tim DeRuyter is one of 15 semifinalists for the Broyles Award, honoring the best assistant coach in college football. The winner will be named Dec. 4.
Under DeRuyter's direction, Cal is allowing 183.8 yards per game passing and 318.7 yards of total offense, which are its best marks since 1994 (165.2 passing yards) and 2008 (315.2 total yards). Cal's 21.1 points allowed per game are its least since the 2004 team gave up 19.9.

Patrick Laird Closing In On 1,000 And 2,000 Rushing Yards
Patrick Laird's career totals now stands at 1963 rushing yards after he had  71 in his most recent contest at USC on November 10. Laird rushed for 193 yards at Oregon State, his sixth career 100-yard rushing performance and his first of 2018. His 5.8 yards per rush against Oregon State tied for second-best of his career (Weber State, 2017).
Laird scored three touchdowns for the second time in his career at Oregon State (two rushing and one receiving). It was the second time in his career that he has scored a rushing and a receiving TD in the same game (North Carolina, 2018). He now boasts 14 career rushing touchdowns, four shy of Cal's career top-10 list in that category. 
Laird is the Bears' leading rusher in 2018 with 179 carries for 771 yards and five touchdowns (all team highs), while he is also Cal's leader in receptions with 43 catches and his 269 receiving yards rank second with a team-high-tying three touchdown grabs. Laird is on pace for 52 receptions and is currently two catches shy of his 2017 total of 45. Paul Jones owns the school single-season record in recorded history for catches by a running back with 49 in 1979. Laird's eight receptions (34 yards) at Arizona in 2018 were a career high. He has 91 career receptions for 589 yards and four touchdowns, leaving him nine catches from 100 for his career.   Laird has totaled 481 of his 771 rushing yards in the last five games after picking up 290 in his first five. In the final five games last season, Laird had 727 of his 1127 rushing yards on the campaign, boasting four 100-yard performances including a career-high 214 yards against Oregon State.
Laird has an opportunity to become only the third two-time 1000-yard rusher in Cal history with the others Russell White (3) and Marshawn Lynch (2). He needs another 229 yards in 2018 to accomplish the feat.

Bears Are Bowling
Cal is bowl eligible for the first time since 2015. The Bears have won at least five games every season since 2014 and are one win from matching the 2015 season regular-season win total (7) and two from the final total (8).
The Bears defeated Air Force, 55-36, in the 2015 Armed Forces Bowl in their most-recent bowl appearance.   
Prior to 2015, Cal played Texas in the 2011 Holiday Bowl after enjoying a streak of seven-straight bowl appearances from 2003-09, going 5-2.

Colorado Connections
Defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter graduated from Air Force in 1985, and also had three coaching stints there first as a graduate assistant in 1985 then as an assistant at three different positions from 1989-92 and then, as defensive coordinator from 2007-09 (also served as an assistant head coach from 2008-09)
Cal's athletic director Jim Knowlton was the athletic director at Air Force from 2015 until taking the same position at Cal in May of 2018.

Bears Snap 14-Game Losing Streak Against USC
In its most-recent game, Cal snapped a 14-game losing streak against USC, and it was also the Bears' first win in the L.A. Coliseum since 2000.
The Bears' defense allowed USC 40 yards of total offense in the second half against USC after giving up 237 yards in the first half. Cal allowed just 1.3 yards per play on 31 second-half plays against the Trojans.
Cal's seven pass breakups at USC tied for its most this season, its 9.0 tackles for loss were second and its 4.0 sacks tied for second.
Cal shut out the Trojans in the second half. The last time the Bears shut an opponent out in the second half was in 2017 against Washington State.
Luc Bequette was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week on Nov. 12 after posting career highs of eight tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and 2.0 sacks while also forcing his second career fumble at USC. 
Traveon Beck finished with a career-high six tackles against USC, including a tackle for loss on a fake field goal attempt. He also intercepted a pass that led to Cal's game-winning touchdown and broke up a career-high three passes.
The win gives Cal a winning record of 3-2 in true road games in 2018. The last time the Bears had a winning road record was in 2014, also 3-2. 

Davis Strong In Kick Return Game
Ashtyn Davis currently stands second in the Pac-12 and ninth in the nation in yards per kick return (27.8). 
Davis had his first kick return touchdown (89 yards) vs. Idaho State and ranks tied for fifth in the nation with his one kick return TD. Against Washington, he rattled off a 55-yard return, second longest of his career. 
Davis shared the nation's lead in kick returns in 2017 with 39 while ranking ninth in kick return yards (826) and 14th in combined kick return yards (826). His total kick returns and kick return yards in 2017 both rank third in Cal's single-season history. 
Davis has 58 career kick returns for 1354 yards and an average of 23.3. 

Coutts Effective In Punt Game
Steven Coutts' 73-yard punt in the second quarter vs. Oregon was a career best, tied for the seventh longest in school history, the longest by a Pac-12 player in 2018 and tied for the 13th longest nationally. It was also the longest punt by a Cal player since Bryan Anger had punts of 75 and 76 yards against Stanford in 2008. 
On the year, Coutts, a native of Brisbane, Australia, has punted 50 times for 2068 yards (41.4) with six 50-yard punts and 25 that have landed inside the 20-yard line. His 25 punts inside the 20 rank tied for first nationally and lead the Pac-12 with the next punter standing at 20 inside the 20. He punted a career-high eight times, including five inside the 20, vs. North Carolina for 269 yards, also a career best. He tied that career high with eight punts and a career-best 351 punt yards at USC.