Dave Albee
After another long preseason training camp session last Saturday night, Cal quarterback Nate Longshore was resting in his room at the Claremont Hotel with teammate Tyson Alualu when they tuned the television set to ESPN, which was airing its college football preview show.That's when they heard for the first time that ESPN college football analyst Lee Corso had predicted that the Golden Bears would win the national championship this season. The hotel room went quiet. Longshore turned to Alualu. Uh-oh. "We better go practice tomorrow," the Cal quarterback said. Corso's divination is the topper to a preseason filled with rising expectations at Cal. The Bears are ranked ninth in the nation in the Associated Press preseason poll - their highest AP preseason ranking since 1952 - and they're ranked as high as No. 6 in Street and Smith's Magazine. The school established a Heisman Trophy campaign Web site (marshawn10.com) for star running back Marshawn Lynch and Sports Illustrated, for its national preseason tour, sent a writer to Berkeley to file a post card.
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