Cal-Colorado Postgame Notes
Patrick Laird Caught His Fourth Receiving Touchdown On Saturday

FB11/24/2018 7:32 PM | By: Cal Athletics

Cal-Colorado Postgame Notes

  • With today's 33-21 victory over Colorado, California secured its first winning season since 2015 when the Golden Bears finished 8-5.
  • Cal forced five turnovers all in the first half (three interceptions, two fumbles) which are the most since forcing seven Washington State turnovers last year (five interceptions, two fumbles). Cal scored a season-high 24 points off turnovers.
  • Cal's 93 interception return yards were its most since recording 106 against UCLA in 2008.
  • The Bears now boast 17 interceptions on the season, which are the most since Cal had 24 in 2008.
  • Cal has won all five games it has played this season when winning the turnover battle. In the last five games, Cal has only committed four turnovers wwhile forcing 13 turnovers during that span. In the Bears' seven wins this season, they boast a 20-8 turnover advantage.
  • Elijah Hicks intercepted his first career pass, returned for his first career touchdown on the opening drive of the game. It came with 13:49 remaining in the first quarter and marked CaI's fastest score this season.
  • On the ensuing drive, Ashtyn Davis recorded his third career interception and returned it for his first career pick-six. He added his second interception of the game and fourth of his career in the second quarter, giving him his first career multi-interception game and Cal's first two-interception game since Jaylinn Hawkins had two in 2018 season-opener against North Carolina.
  • The last time Cal had two pick-sixes in a game was against Grambling State in 2015 when both also came in the first quarter.
  • Cal now has five defensive touchdowns on the season all on interceptions.
  • The Bears earned their sixth first-quarter shutout this season today. Conversely, Cal scored 21 points in the first quarter, marking the third time this year the Bears have scored 21 points in a quarter.
  • With his one-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter, Patrick Laird now has a team-leading four receiving TDs this season, five for his career. He also now boasts 19 total career touchdowns. Later in the game, Laird reached 2,000 career rushing yards and now has 2,008 for his career.
  • Evan Weaver had a career-high 19 tackles while Jordan Kunaszyk contributed 14 to give both a team-high-tying 128 on the season. The duo has now combined for 256 tackles this season to equal the 256 recorded by Steve Hendrickson (134) and David Ortega (132) in 1988 for the most recorded by any duo in Cal football history. Weaver has nine double-digit tackle games and Kunaszyk eight.
  • On a Colorado first-quarter punt, Traveon Beck forced his first career fumble that was recovered by Quentin Tartabull, the first of his career. Colorado later muffed a second-quarter punt that was recovered by Daniel Scott for the first fumble recovery of his career.
  • Luc Bequette notched his team-leading fifth sack in the first quarter.
  • Alex Funches had career highs of six tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss while he also notched his first career pass breakup.
  • Evan Rambo had a career-high 2.0 tackles for loss. 
  • The Bears were 3-for-3 on fourth downs.
  • Moe Ways caught his first career touchdown in the fourth quarter.
  • Chase Garbers rushed a career-high 12 times.
  • Greg Thomas tied a career high with two fields goals made.
  • Steven Coutts punted for a Cal career-high 371 yards and had two punts of 50-plus yards for the first time in his Cal career while tying Cal career highs with eight punts and tby pinning Colorado inside its 20-yard line on five occasions.
  • Cal honored 24 seniors in a pregame Senior Day ceremony – Jake Ashton, Rusty Becker, Kamryn Bennett, Ian Bunting, Hiroaki Endo, Chase Forrest, Alex Funches, Ray Hudson, Jordan Kunaszyk, Patrick Laird, Malik McMorris, Patrick Mekari, Justin Norbeck, Chibuzo Nwokocha, Addison Ooms, Chris Palmer, Matt Robinson, Matt Rockett, Quentin Tartabull, Semisi Uluave, Alonso Vera, Moe Ways, Kyle Wells and Vic Wharton III.
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