The Bruins pulled off a huge win last year over the Golden Bears, and their coach refuses to allow them to forget it.
By Jim Thomas
A year ago, UCLA pulled off one of the biggest victories of the Karl Dorrell Era when the Bruins scored the final three touchdowns for an improbable 47-40 victory over California. Sometime this week, Cal coach Jeff Tedford decided to tap that painful memory, see if he could get some good out of it after all. Knowing his 10th-ranked Golden Bears (7-1, 5-0) are looking forward to winning their first league title in 31 years and might be prone to underestimating the slumping Bruins, he gave them a little history lesson. "I reminded the team about how we felt last year after that game," Tedford told reporters in Berkeley. "We felt like we let that one slip away, although UCLA made nice plays down the stretch to pull it out.
"We had a bad feeling in our stomach after that game. I just wanted to remind them what that felt like, and to know that UCLA is a very good football team."
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