(Written by kencraw)

Expect both the On The Road Home podcast and a re-watch/full review of the game later today. In the mean time, my initial AM thoughts:

• Stinking Washington! Here I spend all summer talking about how everyone is over-rating them and they’re not going to do well, probably not even be bowl eligible, but somehow I still talked myself into picking them over BYU in the Pick’Em league (mostly because I think BYU is even MORE over-rated with their new QB and all) and UW goes there and lays an egg. UW, you have been banished from further consideration! (That’ll teach ’em 🙂 )
• Stinking Oregon State! Now we’re going to spend ALL season listening to why TCU should not only get into a BCS game (potentially taking a spot from a Pac-10 team) but also why they should go to the national title game, which they ABSOLUTELY should not. OSU, you’re going to lay an egg vs. Boise St. too, huh? Why is it that you don’t actually play up to your potential until October? Do you have fall practices in Corvallis? Luckily I was smart enough to know about the OSU non-conf bust, so they didn’t hurt me there, but COME ON! You make the Pac-10 look bad every year. It’s time to represent.
• As for Cal, it’s quite clear we need to start working on a cheer specifically for Keenan Allen. He was capital ‘A’ Awesome!
• The secondary look a lot better yesterday, particularly Chris Conte, everyone’s favorite kicking boy. Apparently he’s belonged at strong safety the whole time, because he looked much more at home there than he ever did at cornerback.
• While the overall defensive play didn’t particularly excite me (still not much pressure on the QB), I did feel like everyone knew their assignments and things ran fairly smoothly. Nice to see when a new scheme comes in.
• The other area that didn’t really excite me was O-line play.
• Does UC Davis get that many fans at a home game?
• Did J-Ross give leaping lessons during summer practices? Did anyone other than Stevens show up? I sure hope so.
• Now I know why Sofele is #2 on the depth chart and why DeBo is no where to be found.

More to come…