BATON ROUGE - Cal chose one hell of a way to open this season with a trip to LSU's Death Valley. Traveling to one of the loudest stadiums in the nation is not an ideal way of testing a mostly freshman team, but this would be an excellent test for the Golden Bears. Few expected a big win with a freshman under center, but with the level of pure talent Cal has on its team a win was definitely within reach.
Things started off slowly for the Golden Bears and QB Kyle Boehm was off target on a number of plays. Despite his shaky start Boehm led the Bears down the field and ran the ball in himself to take a 7-0 lead in the first quarter. The second quarter was very different and sealed the game for Cal. Boehm settled in and silenced the Death Valley crowd with a number of amazing drives featuring a few scrambles for a 1st down. Choosing Boehm over Bridgford has already paid off for Coach London, and its starting to look like Cal could be just as good as last year. With a healthy lead at halftime the Bears went to Heisman hopeful Darrell Green and ran out the clock and ran up the score.
Kyle Boehm silences the Death Valley crowd. Cal fans can breath a little easier and opposing coaches can start pulling out their hair after the show Cal's defense put on today. The Bears started right where they left off last season; destroying opposing offenses. CB Terrence Miller took his first step toward leading the nation in INTs by picking off hapless LSU QB Zack Lee twice and being an all around pain in the ass in pass coverage. To make matters worse for LSU the Zojirushi-Towers-Friday trio at LB proved to be a great haul by London and the all excelled in pass coverage and stopping the run. LSU was completely blindsided in this game, if this game is any indication of Cal's strength they could be looking at a third BCS Title.
GAME LEADERS
Passing : K.Boehm (Cal) - 341YDS 5TD
Rushing : D.Green (Cal) - 170YDS 4TD
Receiving : M.Brown (Cal) 172YDS 2TD
Defense : C.Martin (Cal) - 8TKL 3TFL SACK
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