BERKELEY - The California football team returns to California Memorial Stadium on Saturday to take on Washington State. The Bears will look to snap their four-game losing streak against a talented Cougar squad as they take the field at 4 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Network. 

CAL TAKES ON COUGARS AT CALIFORNIA MEMORIAL STADIUM
- Cal leads the all-time series 47-28-5.
- Cal has won the last two matchups vs. Washington State at California Memorial Stadium. 
- The last time Washington State visited Cal, the Bears won 37-3 as they had nine sacks and 12 TFL as Cal secured their first win over a top-10 team of the Justin Wilcox era and the first since 2003. 
- WSU averaged 39.1 points in 2018 and Cal held the Cougars to 19 in last year's matchup. In 2017, WSU averaged 32.6 points and Cal held them to 3. Cal has held WSU to 24.9 ppg less than they average in their non-Cal games over the last two years combined. 
- Cal boasts four players on the squad from the state of Washington: Evan Weaver (Spokane), Matthew Cindric (Sammamish), Orin Patu (Seattle) and Ben Moos (Pullman). 
- Ben Moos' father, Bill, played offensive line for the Cougars from 1969-72. He worked at WSU as an assistant and associate athletic director from 1982-1990 and returned as Athletic Director for WSU from 2010-2017. 
- Beau Baldwin's entire coaching career came for schools based in Washington prior to being hired as Cal's offensive coordinator in 2017; coached at both Central Washington and Eastern Washington. 
- The Bears have defeated a top-15 team in four straight years: No. 14 Washington (2019), No. 13 Washington (2018), No. 8 Washington State (2017), No. 11 Texas (2016).

DISCIPLINED EFFORT 
- Cal is one of the least penalized teams in the country and the Bears lead the Pac-12 in all four categories that measure penalties. 
- Cal has 337 penalty yards (12th NCAA, 1st Pac-12), 42.13 penalty yards per game (18th, 1st), 40 penalties (12th, 1st) and 5.00 penalties per game (18th, 1st).

EVAN WEAVER: TACKLING MACHINE
- National Defensive Player of the Year candidate ILB Evan Weaver leads the nation in total tackles (127), solo tackles (69), total tackles per game (15.9) and solo tackles per game (8.6).
- Has forced three fumbles in 2019, tied for ninth in the NCAA and tied for first in the Pac-12 
- Is on pace for 190.5 tackles in a 12-game season and 206.4 in a 13-game campaign (NCAA record for total tackles in a season is 193 set by Lawrence Flugence of Texas Tech in 2002. 
- Luke Kuechly holds the record for average tackles per game at 15.9 (191 tackles in 12 games). 
- The only FBS player with three 20+ tackle games in a season since 2000.
- The only Pac-12 player since 2000 with multiple games of 20+ tackles, not just in one season but overall.
- The third FBS player since 2000 to have three career games of 20+ tackles and he has recorded them all this year.   
- Has 19 more tackles than anyone else in FBS and 34 more tackles than anyone else who has played less than nine games. 
- Recorded double-digit tackles for 12 straight games, a streak that ended at Oregon. Has 10+ tackles in 14 of past 15 games. 
- Has five 15+ tackle games, most in the country (18 at Washington, 22 at Ole Miss, 15 vs. ASU, 21 vs. Oregon State, 22 vs. Utah). No one else has more than three. 
- Recorded there of the top five tackle games in the FBS this year. 
- The only FBS player with four games with 18+ tackles. There have been 16 times when a player has recorded 18+ tackles this year and Weaver has four of them, no one else has more than one. 
- Had 22 tackles both at Ole Miss and Utah, tying with Jordan Kunaszyk (vs. UCLA, 10/13/2018) for the most total tackles in recorded school history.

DEFENSIVE LOCK DOWN
- Cal held 14 straight opponents under 25 points prior to the game vs. Utah. That tied for the ninth-longest streak in the Pac-12 since 1980. 
- It is also the longest streak by a Cal defense since 1950. 
- During the streak, the Bears held five teams under 15 points and four did not score more than a single touchdown.  
- The Bears have been stingy inside the red zone, holding teams to only 16 touchdowns in 30 red zone appearances, good for a 53.3% rate of touchdowns allowed.
- Cal has allowed only seven passing touchdowns in eight games this season, which is first in the Pac-12 and tied for eighth in the FBS. 
- The Cal defense has stopped opponents from generating explosive plays, holding teams to three or fewer 20+ yard plays in five of eight games this season: UC Davis (2), Washington (2), North Texas (3), Arizona State (3) and Oregon State (3).

DEFENSIVE BACKFIELD SHOWCASES EXPERIENCE
- Cal's experienced defensive backfield has taken on the nickname of the "Takers" after the 2010 movie with the same name. A group of seven players - senior NB/CB Traveon Beck, redshirt junior CB Camryn Bynum, redshirt senior S Ashtyn Davis, senior CB/NB Josh Drayden, junior CB Elijah Hicks, senior S Jaylinn Hawkins, redshirt senior S Trey Turner - have started 134 games and played in 274.
- Cal's defensive backfield has combined for 27 career interceptions (Hawkins 7, Davis 6, Bynum 5, Beck 4, Drayden 2, Trey Turner III 2, Hicks 1).
- The 27 interceptions is the second most interceptions by a defensive back group in the country, trailing only Louisiana Tech (32). Syracuse is third with 26. 
- Davis is tied for 46th in the country and fourth in the Pac-12 with two forced fumbles. 
- Davis was named second-team Midseason All-American by both The Athletic and Athlon Sports.  
- Cal's secondary was ranked among the top eight in the nation in the preseason by three different media outlets: Phil Steele (second), Athlong (fourth), Lindy's (eighth).
- Hawkins is tied for 24th in the NCAA amongst all active players with seven career interceptions. 
- Bynum has five interceptions and 24 PBU's in his career. The 29 passes defended is tied for 24th amongst all active players.
- Bynum's 24 PBU's are t-10th in Cal history alongside Josh Hill. 

LINEBACKER UNIT STANDS OUT BEYOND WEAVER 
- Kuony Deng has been a standout in eight games with the Golden Bears. He is tied for 13th in the country and is third in the Pac-12 in total tackles per game (10.0) and is 19th in the NCAA and third in the Pac-12 in solo tackles per game (5.6). He has also tallied 2.5 sacks, 5.5 TFLs and two pass breakups. 
- Deng has six games with 9+ tackles and three games with 12+ tackles in the first eight contests. He has also recorded at least 1.0 TFL in five of the past six games. 
- Deng and Weaver are the top ranked tackling duo in the country with 25.9 tackles per game, more than any other duo by 3.6 tackles per game. The next best duo is Akron's John Lako and Bubba Arslanian who average 22.3 tackles per game. 
- The duo has combined for 207 tackles through eight games and is on pace (12-game: 310.5/13-game: 336.4) to break the school record for combined tackles, set in 2018 by Weaver and Jordan Kunaszyk at 307.
- OLB Cameron Goode has at least one sack in four of the seven games he has played this year.
- Goode is tied for fourth in the Pac-12 in tackles for loss (8.5) and sixth in sacks (4.5).

OFFENSE TAKING CARE OF THE BALL, CONVERTING IN RED ZONE
- Cal did not turn the ball over vs. Washington or North Texas to mark the first time the Bears recorded back-to-back zero turnover games since the final two games of the 2016 season. 
- The Bears have 0 or 1 turnovers in six of eight games in 2019, they did that only four times in 2018.
- Cal is 14-of-17 in converting in the red zone, scoring 10 touchdowns and hitting four field goals, including the game-winning 17-yard field goal by Greg Thomas to defeat Washington. 

FOUR QUARTERBACKS SEE ACTION IN PAST FOUR GAMES
- All four quarterbacks on the Cal roster have played in over the team's last four games and three have made starts.
- True freshman Spencer Brasch started for the Bears at Utah, totaling 47 yards passing and did not turn the ball over. 
- Devon Modster started his first game at Cal on the road at Oregon and went 17-of-34 for 190 yards and a touchdown. Prior to that, Modster's last start was in the 2017 Cactus Bowl vs. Kansas State.
- Modster was the first Bears' backup QB to start a game due to injury in 79 games, since Allan Bridgford started the final four games of 2012 to replace Zach Maynard.