BERKELEY - The Cal Football team will return to action on Saturday at the Rose Bowl as they take on UCLA at 7:30 p.m. PT. The matchup between the two UC system schools will be broadcast live on FS1 as the Bears will look to build off the momentum forged from their, 24-20, win over rival Stanford. The Bears will be playing back-to-back road games for the first time this year, but will continue their November slate that doesn't see the Bears leave the state of California. 

CAL TAKES ON BRUINS IN ROSE BOWL
- UCLA leads the all-time series 55-33-1.
- Since the series started in 1933 the two flagship schools of the UC System have played every single season.
- Cal quarterback Devon Modster attended UCLA from 2016-2018. He saw action in five games during the 2017 season and started the the team's bowl game vs. Kansas State, where he went 21-34 for 295 yards and two touchdowns. 
- Modster played for the Bruins against Cal, completing 14-18 passes for 191 yards as he entered in the second half for an injured Josh Rosen and led the Bruins to a 30-27 victory. 
- Cal has 30 players on the team that hail from Southern California, including 14 from Los Angeles county (Elijah Hicks, Kekoa Crawford, Branden Smith, Traveon Beck, Camryn Bynum, Erik Harutyunyan, Jaylen Martin, Steve McIntosh, Daniel Scott, Matt Horwitz, Blake Antzoulatos, Tommy Vanis, Jared Staub, Aaron Maldonado). 
- Cal tight ends coach Marques Tuiasosopo coached at UCLA in 2011 (GA), 2012 (TE) and 2016 (QB/Passing Game Coordinator).
- Cal OL coach Steve Greatwood served as the offensive line coach for Chip Kelly at Oregon throughout Kelly's tenure as offensive coordinator (2007-08) and head coach (2009-12).
- Cal Co-DC/ILB coach Peter Sirmon served as a graduate assistant at Oregon under Chip Kelly in 2009. 
- UCLA Defensive Coordinator Jerry Azzinaro served as the defensive line coach at Cal during Justin Wilcox's first season in 2017. 
- UCLA LB coach Don Pellum coached at Oregon for 28 years, including throughout Justin Wilcox and Peter Sirmon's tenure with the team. Pellum was Sirmon's position coach in 1997-98. He also served on Kelly's staff alongside Steve Greatwood. 
- Cal became bowl eligible with the win over Stanford, it is the team's third bowl appearance in last five years and the first back-to-back bowl appearances since the team went to seven straight bowl games between 2003-09.
- Cal has been to 23 bowls in school history, but the team has only been to multiple bowl games in a row on four occasions (1921-22, 1949-51, 1992-93, 2003-09). 
- The Bears have had back-to-back seasons of .500 or better records on the road for first time since 2004 (5-1) and 2005 (3-2) as they are currently 3-2 in 2019 after going 3-2 in 2018. 

DISCIPLINED EFFORT 
- Cal is one of the least penalized teams in the country and the Bears lead the Pac-12 in all four categories that measure penalties. 
- Cal has 433 penalty yards (8th NCAA, 1st Pac-12), 39.4 penalty yards per game (8th, 1st), 53 penalties (13th, 1st) and 4.82 penalties per game (13th, 1st).

LEAVE IT TO WEAVER
- National Defensive Player of the Year candidate ILB Evan Weaver leads the nation in total tackles (164), solo tackles (90), total tackles per game (14.9) and solo tackles per game (8.2).
- Has forced three fumbles in 2019, tied for 10th in the NCAA and tied for first in the Pac-12 
- Is on pace for 178.9 tackles in a 12-game season and 193.8 in a 13-game campaign (NCAA record for total tackles in a season is 193 set by Lawrence Flugence of Texas Tech in 2002). 
- The only FBS player with three 20+ tackle games in a season since 2000.
- The only Pac-12 player since 2000 with multiple games of 20+ tackles, not just in one season but in a career.
- The third FBS player since 2000 to have three career games of 20+ tackles and he has recorded them all this year.   
- Has 32 more tackles than anyone else in FBS. 
- 164 tackles ranks second in school history and is three short of the single season school record. Weaver has two of the top four total tackle seasons in school history with 159 last year as a junior. 
- Recorded double-digit tackles for 12 straight games, a streak that ended at Oregon. Has 10+ tackles in 17 of past 18 games. 
- Has five 15+ tackle games, most in the country (18 at Washington, 22 at Ole Miss, 15 vs. ASU, 21 vs. Oregon State, 22 vs. Utah). No one else has more than three. 
- Has 10.0 tackles for loss and has recorded at least 0.5 tackles for loss in 10 straight games, including eight of 1.0 or more. 
- Recorded three of the top six tackle games in the FBS this year. 

OFFENSE TAKING CARE OF THE BALL, CONVERTING IN RED ZONE
- Cal did not turn the ball over vs. Washington or North Texas to mark 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 eight of 11 games in 2019, they did that only four times in 2018.
- Cal is 22-of-26 in converting in the red zone, scoring 17 touchdowns and hitting five field goals, including the game-winning 17-yard field goal by Greg Thomas to defeat Washington. 

GARBERS MOVES TO 5-0 IN GAMES HE HAS COMPLETED THIS YEAR
- Chase Garbers has led the Bears to a 11-6 record as the starting quarterback, but the Bears are 11-2 in games where Garbers has played more than half the game, including 5-0 this year. 
- Garbers had a career-high in passing yards (357), touchdowns (4) and completions (23) vs. Ole Miss. 
- Garbers had 285 yards passing, 72 yards rushing and two total touchdowns vs. Stanford. He has led the team to game-winning scores on their final drive at Washington and vs. Stanford.   
- Devon Modster went 16-24 for 230 yards while adding 43 yards rushing and scoring four total touchdowns vs. Washington State.
- Modster started his first game at Cal on the road at Oregon and went 17-of-34 for 190 yards and a touchdown. Prior to that, Modster's last start was in the 2017 Cactus Bowl vs. Kansas State.
- Modster was the first Bears' backup QB to start a game due to injury in 79 games, since Allan Bridgford started the final four games of 2012 to replace Zach Maynard. 
- Modster took over for Josh Rosen in the second half of UCLA's game vs. Cal and led UCLA to a 30-27 victory at the Rose Bowl. He completed 14-18 passes for 191 yards in that game. 
- All four quarterbacks on the Cal roster have played over the team's last four games and three have made starts. Cal has played multiple quarterbacks in five games this year. 

RECEIVING CORPS SHOWING BALANCE
- Nikko Remigio had nine catches for 157 yards, the first person to have 150+ yards receiving since 2017 and the most in the Big Game since Geoff McArthur had 245 yards in 2003. 
- Michigan transfer Kekoa Crawford debuted with a notable performace against UC Davis, cathcing three passes for 84 yards and two touchdowns. He added a team-best 48 yards receiving including a crucial 27-yard reception to set up the game-winning FG at Washington, but has missed five games this year.  
- Cal threw four touchdown passes to four different receivers in the win over Ole Miss.
- Eight different Bears have caught touchdown passes this year.
- The Bears have had six different players lead the team in receptions and five different pace the squad in receiving yards through 11 games.

DEFENSIVE LOCK DOWN
- Cal held 14 straight opponents under 25 points prior to the game vs. Utah. That tied for the ninth-longest streak in the Pac-12 since 1980. 
- It was the longest streak by a Cal defense since 1950.
- The Bears have been stingy inside the red zone, holding teams to only 23 touchdowns in 42 red zone appearances, good for a 54.7% rate of touchdowns allowed.
- Cal has allowed only 14 passing touchdowns in 11 games this season, which is third in the Pac-12 and tied for 33rd in the FBS. 
- Cal has held nine of 11 opponents below their season average in games against other teams. 
- The Cal defense has stopped opponents from generating explosive plays, holding teams to three or fewer 20+ yard plays in seven of 11 games this season: UC Davis (2), Washington (2), North Texas (3), Arizona State (3), Oregon State (3), Washington State (3) and Stanford (3).
- Cal held Washington State to only 16 yards rushing in the Bears' win. 

DEFENSIVE BACKFIELD SHOWCASES EXPERIENCE
- Cal's experienced defensive backfield has taken on the nickname of the "Takers" after the 2010 movie with the same name. A group of seven 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, senior S Jaylinn Hawkins, redshirt senior S Trey Turner - have started 147 games and played in 291.
- Cal's defensive backfield has combined for 30 career interceptions (Hawkins 9, Davis 6, Bynum 5, Beck 4, Drayden 2, Trey Turner III 2, Hicks 1, Scott 1).
- The 30 interceptions is second-most interceptions by a defensive back group. The Bears trail Louisiana Tech (36), but sit in front of Syracuse (29) on the defensive back interception leaderboard. 
- Davis was named second-team Midseason All-American by both The Athletic and Athlon Sports and is one of three finalists for the Burlsworth Trophy.
- Davis has forced and recovered two fumbles each, he is tied for 19th in the FBS and fourth in the Pac-12 in fumble recoveries.  He ranks third in fumble recoveries in the conference. 
- Hawkins is tied for sixth in the NCAA amongst all active players with nine career interceptions. 
- Bynum has five interceptions and 25 PBU's in his career. The 30 passes defended is tied for 28th amongst all active players.
- Bynum's 25 PBU's are t-6th in Cal history. 

DENG IMPACTS GAME FROM LINEBACKER SPOT 
- Kuony Deng is 17th in the country and is third in the Pac-12 in total tackles per game (9.5) and is and is seventh in the Pac-12 in solo tackles per game (4.6). He has also tallied 3.0 sacks, 7.5 TFLs and four pass breakups. 
- Deng has seven games with 8+ tackles and four games with 11+ tackles. He has recorded at least 1.0 TFL in six games. 
- Deng and Weaver are the top ranked tackling duo in the country with 24.4 tackles per game, more than any other duo by 2.1 tackles per game. The next best duo is Akron's John Lako and Bubba Arslanian who average 22.3 tackles per game. 
- The duo has combined for 268 tackles through 11 games and is on pace (316.7) to break the school record for combined tackles in a 13-game season, set in 2018 by Weaver and Jordan Kunaszyk at 307.
- That mark also ranks first amongst all Pac-12 duos since 2000 and 10th amongst FBS duos. It's also the second-most combined tackles by a duo since 2006.
- OLB Cameron Goode has at least one sack in five of the 10 games he has played this year.
- Goode is fourth in the Pac-12 in tackles for loss (11.0) and sacks (6.5).