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That was a great game! Happily I got to watch it from the visitor's section of the Coliseum. There were a lot of happy Cal fans celebrating at the guardrail with the team afterwards!

Go get 'em!

Definitely! I'm not sure when exactly, but within a week or two.

Haha, I totally forgot about that!

Good luck to you as well!

teller121 suspended for what?

@@jeremyandrew4367 no idea, but I saw more info on it yesterday. I'm out of this game. Tired of this bowl bullshit. Maybe one bowl in seven worth a shit from betting perspective. Between the flake-outs (5 defensive starters for UGA, 2 last year) who don't want to play anymore, the teams that no-show (SMU) and the lay-offs from end of reg season leading to unpredictable play...the regular season is the way to go. There are opportunities but you better have some really good info. I thought Cal was a good one but it was just one safety sitting out for Cal, now it's also a starting LB and a bunch of defensive reserves, plus Illinois QB back. I almost want to take Ill now but...they are Illinois.

@@teller121 So you were wrong with the Cal info, and it sounds like your main attachment to college football is that it enables you to lose money by following your shitty gambling instincts. Cool stuff.

I've got a writeup of it for $2.99 at www.berk18.com

@@berk183 😂🤣

Thanks! This will be on CGB at 3pm. When the CB doesn't lock up on that, it's usually because he's zoning off, and so is potentially responsible for something like a Corner route to the back corner of the EZ. Typical procedure is to drop to take that away, and then to rally to the underneath throw. Guys do this with varying degrees of success, but it's not out of the question for someone in that position to rally while the ball's in the air; there's a lot of east/west flight time for a throw like that, and a good CB can get there surprisingly quickly. There are also lots of guys who will play that really badly and give up the TD, hah, but we don't usually get burned by that.

DC (College) here; because Cal was in Blue Goalline, The CB and S will check to stop nows, pic routes and rub plays, that is first assignment, then the CB is aligned with outside flat will alert to any threats for picks. Because of split rules and OC put WRs close together. and the CB will have zone-on-demand just in case if it was a pick, unless the routes is 5 yards and under, then it will be man like it was during the play Utah ran. S had TE and CB had H back. Even before the game, Cal defense coaches, had film of all the goal-lines plays and the bunch plays too. They knew Utah offense sets and try to expect what is coming for goal-lines plays to defend.

@@coachanderson2704 Good stuff coach, thanks for the insight!

Coach Anderson thanks for the details. Challenging to defend around pick (i mean rub...) plays the offense uses to free up routes!

That's a good idea, I've definitely been keeping an eye on UCLA. This actually sounds like the kind of thing that I'd do in the off-season as a Patreon study, where I'd have time to look at a few different games to bring out different issues. My quick answer, though, is that UCLA's offense is better than it looks, but they got off to a rough start by facing three ~top-30 defenses (Cincinnati, SDSU, Oklahoma). If you only look at conference games, they're currently in the top-10 in the country and have put up well over 400 yards in all of their last four games. They're also slightly out-performing the rest of the conference against those four teams, and they did all of this without their starting QB in one game. They definitely aren't back to the level of Chip's Oregon teams, but they're also re-building much more than those Duck teams were. Over the last few years I've broken UCLA's offense down a few times on the Patreon site, but their last game (against Stanford) was the first time that they looked schematically like I'd expect them to, so it might be that they're just starting to round into form. It'll definitely be a storyline that I'll feature in the off-season, though, and I'll make some free videos on here to highlight a few key points and support the longer Patreon posts.

Thanks! I'm thinking about making one about this defensive dominance vs. Colorado that's going on right now. Are there any Duck communities that you know of that might be interested?

Thanks a lot! This is just one look at one formation, so it's definitely not definitive, but it does illustrate a broader pattern that I see when I look for tendencies in the Duck offense. Good luck to you all as well!

Duck fan here as well and agree with you darn808pinoy. I have a much higher appreciation of Arroyo now.

Hey! Yeah, I'm trying to branch out and cover more of the conference, and this one wasn't too relevant to CGB. I think that what you said definitely factored into some plays. You can usually spot this by how much upfield push the DE's are getting. The basic idea is called a "Mush Rush," where there's limited upfield push. This is especially important at the DE position, because if they're your contain players and they end up getting behind the QB, then you don't really have contain players any more. Another schematic factor, though, is that sometimes those DE's might not've been responsible for contain. Colorado played a lot of the game with wide OLB's, and while we might think of them as "coverage players," their assignments also put them wide on the edge in position to defend any kind of QB roll out or scramble. So there, the DE's might just be trying to collapse the pocket with an interior rush, because the QB can't leave the pocket without facing those unblocked OLB's.

Hey! I replied on CGB, so you can get my answers there. Thanks!