(Written by kencraw)

Saturday night when I got home I surveyed the various news outlets to see if there was any press about the Bears. There was nothing at all. No mention of the game on ESPN, even on the college football centric shows. Even Ted Miller had nothing to say, with the game basically playing at the same time as the Oregon/LSU game he was at.

But once all the various press outlets caught their collective breaths, they re-looked at all the ‘minor’ games they hadn’t been watching and the good news has started rolling in:

• Cal gets 1 vote in the coaches poll
• Miller calls Cal ‘team of the week’
• Miller raises Cal to 5th in the his power rankings (up from 10th out of 12)

(and I’m sure there are some other’s I read and can’t remember right now.)

OK, so it’s not exactly high-praise, but it’s a big step up from where we have been. Cal has been this anonymous team that nobody talks about. In 2006, the game versus Fresno would have been one of the higher billed games of the weekend. Instead we were an also-ran.

If the Bears can beat Colorado in convincing fashion (and then of course get the easy win over the Blue Hose), all of a sudden the game up in Seattle may come with a fairly high billing that week.