Cal @ Arizona State

Another dismal day for QB K.Riley throwing 6 INTs this week, however, Cal was able to force 3 out of ASU and the Cal defense played well enough to hold on for the win. The 44-30 scoreline is very deceiving, the Cal defense held ASU to under 250yds and the majority of them coming on a 77yd run by RB J.Miles. Another key defensive stat for the Golden Bears is ASU's 3rd and 4th down percentage, holding ASU to 3-14(21%) on 3rd and 0-4(0%) on 4th including a stop on 4th and inches from the 16 with the score 37-30 with 3:23 left in the 4th.

Coach B had a few words to say when we caught up with him after the game, "We played well enough to win, it wasn't pretty by any means but a win is a win. Riley's INTs almost killed us again this week, but when he wasn't passing to ASU he was excellent, passing for almost 500yds. However, our defense really stepped up after last week and pulled us out of the hole we created for ourselves. The only big play of the game for ASU's offense was the 77 yarder in which RB Miles broke several tackles."


Scoreline:

Teams:	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Final
ASU:	7	13	10	0	30
Cal:	14	13	10	7	44

POTG:
Cal: K G.Tavecchio 3-3 FGs, Long of 42
ASU: FS M.Callaghan 5 Tkls
ASU's actual POTG:
Cal QB K.Riley 27-46, 447yds, 3 TDs, 6 INTs

Nice win. Looks like Riley is real inconsistent though

Inconsistent might be the understatement of the century...a few of the INTs were good coverage by ASU and I didn't see someone sitting in a zone, but the last 2 weeks it seemed as though for every 5 or 6 passes, one would be completely out of the area and get picked.

I hate when that happens, it just seems for no apparent reason the throw will go to the middle of no where.

Exactly what I mean...one of the ones today was in the endzone on a slant route, guy was wide open with 3 or 4yds between him and the next defender and Riley threw right to the middle linebacker sitting in a middle zone and he returned it 102yds for a TD. I was so pissed at that...

Ya I know what you mean. I haven't had one of those this year (knock on wood) but I have had plenty of those in other ods