Loading ...About a month ago, SI.com’s Stewart Mandel offered us his infinite wisdom and gave us his post-spring, yet pre-summer college football rankings.
In those rankings, Cal was No. 20. Pretty good. But we like Athlon Sports’ ranking for the Bears a little bit better.
Athlon Sports, this year, is ranking their top 25 college football teams countdown style, finishing with the No. 1 team on June 1. We think that No. 1 team is going to be USC. But that’s just speculation.
Cal is just outside of the top 10, coming in at No. 11 for Athlon Sports.
And just like everyone else in America, Athlon Sports loves The Golden Blur we like to call DeSean Jackson.
If the Heisman Trophy were to go to the player with the ability to change the complexion of a game on one play better than anyone else in America, DeSean Jackson would be front and center at this year’s ceremony, and probably would have been last year. Jackson has been Cal’s leading receiver in both of his first two seasons, averaging 17.1 yards on 97 catches with 16 touchdowns. He also ran back four punts for touchdowns last year, giving him five for his career, and was the recipient of the Randy Moss Award as the top return man in the nation. He takes just about one out of every five punts he touches the distance.
There are great expectations looming for this Bears squad. With an almost top 10 ranking in one poll, a “primetime game” to kickoff the season and “College GameDay” coming to Berkeley, the hype surrounding this team is reaching levels never seen before since the Pappy Waldorf years.
Other Pac-10 teams of note already mentioned in Athlon Sports’ top 25 include No. 15 UCLA and No. 22 Oregon State. Our question, why does everyone love the Beavs? When was the last time they got this much love?
Electric offense sparks Bears in ‘07 [Athlon]
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