By Dave Newhouse, STAFF WRITER
BERKELEY — It started in the springtime when Cal coach Jeff Tedford played "Rocky Top," the Tennessee football anthem, as motivation for his Golden Bears. Motivation turned into torture. "We'd have conditioning workouts in the morning at 6:30," senior cornerback Randy Bundy said, "and they'd just play 'Rocky Top' over and over in the locker room, all day long until we got tired of it." "It was pretty irritating," said sophomore quarterback Nate Longshore, who's starting Saturday in Knoxville. "Hope we don't have to hear much more of it." Maybe not in Berkeley, but in Knoxville, that's all the Bears will hear, much like USC's all-game-long droning gridiron hymn to itself. However, not even over-dosing on "Rocky Top" can shake Cal's unbridled confidence.
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