Thursday, August 31, 2006

SF Chronicle: With no clear-cut favorite, Cal really does have a chance at National Title

Jake Curtis

There is one good reason Cal might win the national championship: Somebody has to.  At this point, no team seems to have the goods to do it, and that includes the Bears, whose one glaring shortcoming is the absence of a proven quarterback. But it's safe to say the BCS national championship game will be played as scheduled Jan. 8, and it's a good bet two teams will arrive in Glendale, Ariz., to play it.  Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops figures the door is open for someone back in the pack to become No. 1, as his team did in 2000 when it started the season at No. 19.

"The past four or five years, there's always been a few teams that seem to be far ahead of everybody else, but that doesn't seem to be the case this year," he said. "So whoever can bring it together and improve as the season goes along has a chance at it."

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