Cal-Oregon Postgame Notes
Cal-Oregon Postgame Notes

Cal-Oregon Postgame Notes

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• With today's 52-49 California double overtime win, the Golden Bears have now won five straight home games and eight of their last nine in Berkeley. Cal also snapped a seven-game losing streak against the Ducks, topping Oregon for the first time since 2008. Cal set FBS and school records for most plays by in a single game with 118, surpassing the previous record of 115 held by four teams and 102 by Cal. Tonight also marks a school single-game record and an FBS record for total plays between both teams at 203. The previous school record was 182.
 
• Tonight's game along with an overtime contest in its previous game at Oregon State (Oct. 8) marked the first time in school history that Cal has played back-to-back overtime games in a season. It also marks the fourth time that Cal has played multiple overtime games in a season. The Bears are now 8-5 all-time in overtime.

• Cal set a single-game school record with 40 first downs while the 67 first downs combined for by Cal and Oregon (27) also marked the most by both teams combined in Cal history.
 
• Davis Webb completed 42-of-61 passes for 325 yards and a career-high-tying five touchdown passes along with a rushing touchdown with the 42 completions a career-high and one shy of the school record of 43 set by Rich Campbell vs. Florida in 1980. Webb now ranks fifth on the school's single-season passing touchdown list with 27 in 2016. He now has six four-touchdown passing performances this season, the most in the nation. It was also the third time this season he has thrown five touchdown passes.
 
• Webb threw his five TD passes to four different receivers, and 10 different Bears caught at least one pass.
 
• Tonight's game marked the first time since 2012 that Cal rushed for 200-plus yards in back to back games – Washington and Oregon in 2012, and the first time Cal had 300 or more rushing yards back-to-back since the final three games of 2004, which happened in three straight games – Washington, Stanford and Southern Mississippi.
 
• Tre Watson and Khalfani Muhammad each rushed for over 100 yards in back-to-back games vs. Oregon tonight (Watson career-high 154, Muhammad 148) and at Oregon State on Oct. 8 (Muhammad career-high 165, Watston 134). The last time Cal had two rushers with back-to-back 100-yard performances was in 2004 – J.J. Arrington and Marshawn Lynch against Washington and Stanford. Watson's yardage was a career high and he also set a career high in all-purpose yardage with 261 yards that are the most by a Cal player since Trevor Davis had 280 at Washington State in 2014. Watson also recorded his first career multi-receiving TD performance of his career.
 
• Muhammad had a season-high 216 all-purpose yards that were eight short of his career high of 224 at UCLA in 2013 and now has 3,995 career all-purpose yardage to rank seventh in school history in that category.
 
• Entering the game third in the nation (11-13), Cal finished 4-for-5 on fourth downs tonight and is now 15-of-18 on the season (83.0%).

• Cal tied a season-high with 7.0 tackles for loss (also at Arizona State) and registered a season-best 32 tackle for loss yards.
 
• Vic Wharton III caught his first career touchdown at Cal. J.D. Hinnant notched his first career catch on a two-point conversion in the fourth quarter although it will not be recorded officially as a reception.
 
• Wharton (7) and Demetris Robertson (6) set career highs in receptions with Wharton also posting a career-high 55 receiving yards. Robertson also caught his sixth touchdown of the season in the first quarter.

• Jordan Kunaszyk recorded his first career interception on the game-clinching play to seal the win. 
 
• Matt Anderson tied a career-high by making three of his four field goals attempts including a 28-yarder in the second overtime that provided the game-winning points. He also made a 37-yard field goal in the second quarter and 22-yarder in the third quarter before missing on the final play in regulation from 41 yards. Dating back to last season, he has made 29 of his last 32 field goal attempts.
 
• Today was Cal's sixth-straight game decided by 10 or fewer points.
 
• Chris Yaghi made his Cal debut.
 
• Tonight's attendance was 43,048.

• Cal (9-9) and Oregon (5-5) combined to score in all 14 of their trips to the red zone with Cal scoring six touchdown and three field goals while Oregon had touchdowns in each of its five trips.
 
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