BERKELEY - The California Golden Bears will look to get back on the winning track as they head to Autzen Stadium for a Pac-12 matchup against No. 13/13 Oregon on Saturday night at 5 p.m. The intradivision matchup will be broadcast on FOX as the Bears look to claim their fourth victory in the past five games vs. teams ranked in the top 15. 

CAL TRAVELS TO OREGON LOOKING FOR ANOTHER TOP-15 WIN
- The Bears have won three of the past four games vs. Top 15 teams: defeating No. 14/12 Washington (20-19) on the road this year and No. 15/13 Washington (12-10) last year. Cal lost, 19-13, to No. 8/10/11 Washington State in 2018, but defeated the No. 8/9 Cougars, 37-3, in 2017.
- Cal leads the all-time series vs. Oregon 40-39-2. 
- The Bears are looking to win their first three road games in a season for first time since 1991 (Arizona, UCLA, Oregon State).
- Cal has won three straight road games (USC, Washington and Ole Miss) for first time since the 2009 season (UCLA, Arizona State, Stanford).
- Cal head coach Justin Wilcox played safety and cornerback at Oregon (1996-99). In 1999, he was named second-team All-Pac-10 and earned Pac-10 All-Academic honors.
- Cal associate head coach Peter Sirmon played at Oregon (1996-99) and was a first-team All-Pac-10 selection as a senior for the Ducks. 
- Offensive line coach Steve Greatwood graduated from Oregon in 1980. The Eugene native coached 32 seasons over three stints at Oregon, including 25 years as the offensive line coach and five years as the defensive line coach.
- Offensive lineman Valentino Daltoso played one season at Oregon (2016) before transferring to Cal for the 2017 season.

CAL DEFENSE PROVING STINGY IN 2019
- Cal has held 12 straight opponents under 25 points, five of those have been held under 15 points and four did not score more than a single touchdown. This is the longest active streak in the country and tied for the longest since 2013. 
- The Bears are holding opponents to 18.6 points per game, despite going up against some high-scoring offenses. Cal's four opponents are averaging 32.1 points per game in all other 2019 contests, 13.50 more than they average against Cal's defense. 
- The Bears have been stingy inside the red zone, holding teams to only seven touchdowns in 17 red zone appearances, good for a 41.1% rate of touchdowns allowed.
- The Cal defense has stopped opponents from generating explosive plays, holding teams to three or fewer 20+ yard plays in four of five games this season: UC Davis (2), Washington (2), North Texas (3) and Arizona State (3).

CAL OFFENSE GENERATING EXPLOSIVE PLAYS 
- Last season, Cal generated five or more explosive plays of 20+ yards in three of the team's 13 games, it did that in each of their first two games of the 2019 season. 
- Cal opened the season with seven explosive plays of 20+ yards vs. UC Davis. That was more than the Bears had in all but one game during the 2018 season (Oregon State, 8). 
- The Bears generated five 20+ yard plays in the win over No. 14/12 Washington.
- Cal notched four 20+ yard plays vs. Ole Miss, including a 60-yard TD pass from Garbers to Tonges.
- Cal is 13-14 in converting in the red zone, scoring nine touchdowns and hitting four field goals, including the game-winning 17-yard field goal to defeat Washington.
- Cal did not turn the ball over vs. Washington or North Texas, it was the first time the Bears recorded back-to-back zero turnover games since the final two games of the 2016 season. 
- The Bears have 0 or 1 turnovers in four of five games in 2019, they did that only four times in 2018. 

EVAN WEAVER: TACKLING MACHINE
- National honors candidate ILB Evan Weaver leads the nation in total tackles (78), total tackles per game (15.6), solo tackles (43) and solo tackles per game (8.6).
- The NCAA record for total tackles in a season is 193 set by Lawrence Flugence (Texas Tech) in 2002. Weaver's on pace for 187.2 in a 12-game season and 202.8 tackles for a 13-game season. 
- He has 20 more tackles than the next most in the country. 
- With 15 tackles vs. Arizona State, Weaver now has 12 straight games with 10+ tackles. 
- That is the longest streak of consecutive games with 10+ tackles in the country. 
- Weaver has three 15+ tackle games, most in the country.
- Weaver is the only student-athlete with two games with 18+ tackles. 
- He had 22 tackles vs. Ole Miss, setting a career-high and tying with Jordan Kunaszyk (vs. UCLA, 10/13/2018) for the most total tackles in recorded school history.
- Weaver's 22 stops were the most against an SEC opponent by any defender in at least 15 years, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
- He stuffed Ole Miss' John Rhys Plumlee on a QB sneak from the 1-yard line as time expired to preserve the first Pac-12 victory on the road at an SEC school since 2010 and was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week.
- Against Washington, Weaver notched 18 tackles, one TFL and one forced fumble. He was named National Defensive Player of the Week by the Walter Camp Award, Chuck Bednarik Award, the Nagurski Trophy, College Sports Madness and he was the Reese's Senior Bowl Defensive Senior-of-the-Week and the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week.
- Weaver has a combined 40 total tackles in Cal's two road games vs. Washington and Ole Miss. 

TAKERS HIGHLIGHT DEFENSIVE IMPROVEMENT
- Cal's experienced defensive backfield has taken on the nickname of the "Takers" after the 2010 movie with the same name. A group of six players - senior NB/CB Traveon Beck, redshirt junior CB Camryn Bynum, redshirt senior S Ashtyn Davis, senior CB/NB Josh Drayden, junior CB Elijah Hicks and senior S Jaylinn Hawkins - have started 114 games in the defensive backfield since the start of 2017. 
- Cal has allowed only two passing touchdowns in five games this season. 
- Cal's defensive backfield has combined for 26 career interceptions (Hawkins 7, Bynum 5, Davis 5, Beck 4, Drayden 2, Trey Turner III 2, Hicks 1).
- That is tied for the second most interceptions by a defensive back group in the country, trailing only Louisiana Tech (28) and even with Syracuse (26).
- Four members of the team - Bynum, Davis, Hawkins and Hicks - have garnered 2019 preseason recognition; Davis was named honorable mention preseason All-American by PFF, while both he and Bynum are preseason first-team All-Pac-12. Hawkins is a second-team All-Conference honoree by multiple publications while Hicks is a third-team member according to Phil Steele.  
- The Bears are ranked 16th in the country in pass efficiency defense.