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Nevada 31, California 24

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Nevada at Cal (noon PT, Pac-12 Network): The Bears open renovated Memorial Stadium with a feeling of confidence that their balanced, pro-style attack will take flight this season now that quarterback Zach Maynard has had another year to mature in the offense. He's got plenty of weapons around him, and Cal's defense again projects to be one of the best in the conference. The Bears have led the Pac-12 in defense the past two seasons and averaged 7.6 tackles for loss per game last season.
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Bestbuck36;2205048; said:
If Nevada put 31 on them in their own house, I feel pretty confident.


One at a time though.
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As do I, but to be fair....Nevada has one of the hardest to prepare for offenses in college football. Ault really is one of the visionaries of the sport and his teams execute so well. Cal does have talent though, especially at WR with Allen and Treggs, and should provide at least a more 'spirited' game for us than today and comparable to what I expect from UCF.
 
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bigdog3300;2205068; said:
As do I, but to be fair....Nevada has one of the hardest to prepare for offenses in college football. Ault really is one of the visionaries of the sport and his teams execute so well. Cal does have talent though, especially at WR with Allen and Treggs, and should provide at least a more 'spirited' game for us than today and comparable to what I expect from UCF.
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Unfortunately for Nevada, they are supposed to field a defense as well. They often decline.
 
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jwinslow;2205070; said:
Unfortunately for Nevada, they are supposed to field a defense as well. They often decline.
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Ault is pretty much the coach that Charlie Weis wishes he could be: a schematic genius and one of the best offensive minds in college football over the last twenty years.

Unfortunately, and like Weis, he's also a raging egomaniac who wants all the credit for winning to go to his genius and has consciously neglected defense as a means towards that end.

He had a lot of major interest from big programs in his younger years, but he's intensely loyal to UNR. It would have been interesting to see what he might have accomplished had he gone to a major program and been put in a position where he had to hire a top DC and put some emphasis on that side of the ball to go with his offense. I honestly think that, provided he was able to sublimate his ego to the needs of competing on both sides of the ball, he would have been a national championship coach at the top level.
 
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