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Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele finished the season with 3,460 passing yards - No. 6 on the program's all-time single-season list.
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Postgame Notes: Hawai'i 35, California 31
12/24/2025 9:27 PM | Football
- Cal finished the 2025 season with a winning record (7-6) for the first time since going 8-5 in 2019
- Cal has played in bowl games in each of the past three seasons
- WR Jacob De Jesus finished with nine receptions for 137 yards with one touchdown catch. De Jesus completed the 2025 season with a school-record 108 catches as well as 1,029 yards - giving Cal its first 1,000-yard receiver since Chad Hansen 1,249 yards in 2016.
- De Jesus' 108 catches this season are tied for second all-time in a single-season by an ACC receiver.
- QB Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele finished 28-for-39 for a career-high 343 yards passing and one touchdown. Sagapolutele finished his 2025 true freshman season with 3,460 passing yards, which ranks No. 6 on the program's all-time list.
- Sagapolutele threw for 200 or more yards in each of his 13 games as a 2025 true freshman and is the only Power 4 and second FBS player to ever record at least 12 straight games of 200 yards or more passing to begin a collegiate career. Houston's David Piland began his career with 14 straight games of 200 or more yards passing spanning the 2010 and 2012 seasons (did not play in 2011).
- Sagapolutele completed 288 of 453 passes (63.6 percent) this season with 17 touchdowns and nine interceptions
- RB Kendrick Raphael finished the game with 232 rushes for 943 yards with 13 touchdowns. Raphael's 13 rushing touchdowns rank tied for sixth on Cal's all-time list.
- ILB Cade Uluave finished with nine tackles to give him career-highs totals in 2025 of 100 tackles.
- DL Aidan Keanaaina had one tackle to give him 56 in 13 regular-season games. That's the most in a season by a Cal defensive lineman since Cameron Jordan had 62 in 2010.
- RB Anthony League scored his first collegiate touchdown in his first collegiate start.
- DL Legend Journey made his first collegiate appearance.
- Cal had its string of 24 consecutive games with at least one sack snapped.
- Eight Cal players started all 13 games in 2025 (DB Brent Austin, OLB T.J. Bush Jr., ILB Luke Ferrelli, DB Hezekiah Masses, DL Aidan Keanaaina, OL Tyson Ruffins, QB Jaron-Keawe Sagapolute, OL Jordan Spasojevic-Moko).
- Cal Offensive Starters: LT Nick Morrow, LG Jordan Spasojevic-Moko, C Bastian Swinney, RG Tyson Ruffins, RT Braden Miller, QB Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele, RB Kendrick Raphael, TE Mason Mini, TE Jeffrey Johnson, WR Trond Grizzell, WR Jacob De Jesus
- Cal Defensive Starters: DL Aidan Keanaaina, DL T.J. Bollers, OLB TJ Bush Jr., ILB Luke Ferrelli, ILB Cade Uluave, OLB Jayden Wayne, CB Brent Austin, S Aiden Manutai, S Dru Polidore Jr., CB Hezekiah Masses, NB
- Cal Captains: WR Jacob De Jesus, DL Aidan Keanaaina, QB Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele, ILB Cade Uluave
- The game marked the first time Cal has ever played on Christmas Eve.
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