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College Football 2025: Cal at San Diego State Stats & Analysis
The analysis rather speaks for itself. I fully agree that if something doesn’t change, Cal is doomed to field mediocre, “representative” teams that will only fill Memorial Stadium for the Big Game. Kids like our star freshman QB either won’t come in the first place or will portal out the first chance they
get. Mendoza and Ott along with the rest of the portalistas left because they did not have faith in the program to produce a nationally ranked team that would give them the kind of exposure needed to make it to the NFL draft. D1 college football has become nothing more than a big farm team for the NFL. And so, again, it’s all about the NIL money and a coaching staff that can recruit, hold on to, and build talented players into a solid winning program. Cal is nowhere near that level today.