Cal-Oregon State Postgame Notes
Cal's defense set season highs for quarterback sacks and tackles for loss while surrendering only 241 total yards.

FB10/20/2018 4:37 PM | By: Cal Athletics

Cal-Oregon State Postgame Notes

Bears Set Season Highs In Total Offense, Quarterback Sacks

  • With today's 49-7 victory over Oregon State, California has now won four of the last five meetings in the series.
  • With the win, Cal earned its first Pac-12 road victory since a 30-24 decision at Washington on Sept. 26, 2015, ending a string of 14 consecutive losses in Pac-12 road games.
  • Chase Garbers started at quarterback and completed 17-of-26 passes for a career-high 234 yards and a career-high-tying three touchdown passes. His 55-yard pass to Vic Wharton III in the first quarter was Cal's longest play from scrimmage this season and his longest career pass. Garbers also had a career-high 54 yards rushing including a 20-yarder that was the longest rush of his career.
  • Cal recorded a season high in explosive plays (20 yards or more from scrimmage) with eight.
  • Patrick Laird rushed 22 times for 193 yards and two touchdowns. He earned his sixth career 100-yard rushing performance and his first of 2018. Laird's rushing yards are the second highest of his career, surpassed only by his 214 yards (on 33 carries) vs. Oregon State in 2017. Laird's 8.8 yards per rush were a season high and a the second-best of his career.
  • Laird also had three catches for 48 yards and one touchdown to total a career-high 241 all-purpose yards while his three total touchdowns equaled a career best. Patrick Laird went over 200 all-purpose yards for the second straight game against the Beavers with his previous career high 233 against Oregon State in 2017..
  • Laird had at least one rushing and one receiving TD in the same game for the second time in his career (also vs. North Carolina in 2018).
  • Cal ran up a season-high 539 yards of total offense (previous: 482 vs. Idaho State), which included a season-best 305 yards rushing. The Bears last had 300 yards rushing vs. Oregon in 2016.
  • Cal also had offensive season highs in points (49), first downs (27) yards per rush (7.1), touchdown rushes (3), yards per pass (9.0), yards per play (7.8).
  • Cal's defense allowed a season-low seven points.
  • Cal's defense allowed a season-low 241 total yards – the lowest ever under head coach Justin Wilcox and the least by a Cal defense since allowing 224 against Washington State in 2011.
  • Jordan Kunaszyk tied for the team lead with 10 tackles, his sixth straight game with 10 or more. Evan Weaver and Tre Turner III also had 10 tackles for Cal with Turner's a career high.
  • Cal had season highs with 7.0 sacks and 12.0 tackles for loss. Before today, the Bears' highs were 4.0 sacks vs. Idaho State and 6.0 tackles for loss vs. BYU, Idaho State and UCLA. Cal's totals are its highest since getting 9.0 sacks and 12.0 TFLs on Oct. 13, 2017, vs. Washington State. The 7.0 sacks are also the second-most by a Pac-12 team and tied for the fifth-most nationally through Week 8 of the 2018 college football season.
  • Weaver had a career-high-tying 1.5 sacks while Tevin Paul equaled his career-high with 2.5 tackles for loss.
  • Turner and Chris Palmer both had their first career sacks.
  • Josh Drayden's 54-yard interception return for a touchdown was Cal's second pick-six of the year (also Cameron Goode vs. North Carolina) and the first of Drayden's career.
  • Today marked the fourth time this season Cal held an opponent scoreless in the first quarter. Cal led, 7-0, at the end of the first quarter and, 21-0, at halftime, shutting out an opponent in the first half for the second time this year (also North Carolina).
  • Christopher Brown Jr. scored his first career touchdown in the third quarter.
  • Kyle Wells made his first career start.
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