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Leading off Wednesday after-noon’s press conference, one reporter asked how many snaps Cal head coach Jeff Tedford wants backup quarterback Allen Bridgford to get on Saturday against Presbyterian. This wasn’t the first type of question he had received about backups receiving extended playing time.

“At any opportunity that we have depending on the flow of the game, we will want to play our guys,” Tedford said, smiling. “Is that good enough?”

With a win that would make him Cal’s all-time winningest coach, Tedford enters Saturday’s game against the Blue Hose with his usual game plan in mind, but even he wants to get some other guys in the game.

A week after surviving a scare at Colorado, the Cal football team (2-0) enters what looks like its easiest game of the season. The Bears take on Presbyterian (1-1) at 2:30 p.m. in the Bears’ first official home game of the season at AT&T Park in San Francisco.

The Blue Hose are unlikely to pres-ent a challenge. A school in its final year of transition from Division II to the Football Championship Subdivision, Presbyterian has played Wofford and North Greenville to start the season, and after Cal it will take on the likes of Stony Brook, Gardner-Webb and Charleston Southern.

“We tried to find other games but we play a very tough schedule,” Tedford said. “If you look around the country there is a team like this on almost every top Division-I schedule for the most part. We tried to get other games and we couldn’t. I am not apologizing for our schedule because we play a very tough schedule.”

The Pac-12 has already had a slip-up with an FCS team — Sacramento State defeated Oregon State, 29-28 on opening weekend in Corvallis — but Tedford said that was not at all a focus when evaluating Presbyterian.

“It’s about us preparing and get-ting better,” Tedford said. “We’re going to talk about our team playing to our potential.”

FCS Presbyterian likely won’t have a prayer against an undefeated Cal squad in its

home opener in San Francisco.

Wide receiver Marvin Jones has caught 10 passes for 173 yards in Cal’s first two games of the 2011 season. The senior also has two touchdowns grabs.

Running back C.J. Anderson had a 19-yard touchdown run last week. He should see more reps this afternoon.

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The biggest news was that Brendan Bigelow, the touted freshman running back out of Fresno, would see some snaps this weekend now that he is near 100 percent recovered from his second tear of his anterior cruciate ligament. Tedford also noted earlier in the week that fellow tailback C.J. Anderson would see more of the field after his strong performance at Colorado.

“Physically, it looks like (Bigelow) has made the turn in terms of run-ning full speed and cut,” Tedford said. “He’s comfortable.”

With Bigelow suddenly in the mix, Cal now has four running backs — Isi Sofele, Anderson, Covaughn Deboskie-Johnson and Bigelow — suddenly jockeying for position. Tedford stated that Bigelow has not overtaken Deboskie-Johnson’s position as the third running back, but Tedford did guarantee that the freshman would see the field this weekend.

It’s the defense that could use the tuneup this weekend. The Bears come off of a disappointing defensive per-formance that saw them surrender 582 yards of total offense and three touchdowns of at least 37 yards.

After a very impressive opening weekend limiting Fresno State, the Bears were exposed several times against the Buffaloes, which almost

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You’ve never heard of Presbyterian College before, because — let’s be honest —

very, very few people have. So let’s get some basic facts out of the way first.

Location: Clinton, a town of 8,915 in northwestern South Carolina. Student population, 1,200.

Nickname: Blue Hose, as in blue socks or stockings.

Mascot: Scotty the Scotsman, whose new, full-bodied suit was unveiled in January.

And that’s all you need to know about the Cal football team’s third opponent, which on Saturday will be the first to visit the Bears’ new digs at AT&T Park in San Francisco.

What about the Blue Hose’s per-sonnel or schemes, you might ask? Well, they aren’t exactly recruiting guys who Cal would ever take a look at, so there’s not too much to worry about there if you’re betting on a Bears victory.

They’re finishing up a five-year transition into the Big South, a con-ference you’ve probably also never heard of.

You don’t need to know any more because the Bears themselves don’t seem concerned with know-ing any more. All week long, Cal head coach Jeff Tedford has stressed the usual coach-speak line of the game being only about what Cal can do.

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The Bears didn’t perform well last week.

It’s not often that you can allow 474 passing yards and still win, and it’s probably even rarer that you can do it allowing 284 receiv-ing yards to a single wideout. Both these things happened at Colorado.

That Tedford’s team gutted out its first-ever overtime road win is admirable, but it still doesn’t cover all the holes that better Pac-12 teams will stretch painfully wide.

So if this game is all about what Cal can do, what exactly is it that Cal needs to do?

Tune up, and play just about everyone it has.

On defense, true freshmen such as Mustafa Jalil and Viliami Moala should get plenty of burn on the line; the two have already been used off the bench, and they could use the experience heading into Pac-12 play.

The game presents a great oppor-tunity to use someone like C.J. Anderson, who picked up 33 yards and a touchdown in Boulder. The junior transfer from Laney College is built like a bowling ball and is a potential complement to Isi Sofele, who has toted all but seven of the Cal running backs’ 51 rush attempts. As big as Sofele’s heart is, he’ll need someone to spell his 5-foot-7 frame in a long season. Tedford has said to expect more of Anderson this week, along with true freshman Brendan Bigelow.

You can even include Zach Maynard in this group. Maynard is already one of the better quarter-backs Cal has seen in a while — the last Bear that was clearly ahead would be a healthy Nate Longshore, circa 2006 — and has somehow cobbled together the school’s fifth-best pass efficiency rating all-time. He has also been, however, either deceptively bad or deceptively good, depending on whether your glass is half empty or half full.

Big third-down plays have par-tially covered up the fact that he’s one completion below 50 percent, a number he’ll likely flirt with all sea-son. Saturday will be a game where he needs to up that percentage sub-stantially.

A week from now, Cal will head up to Washington to face the team that dashed its bowl hopes in 2010. You can put your life savings on them being 3-0, but it’s the fourth that will truly matter.

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resulted in their first loss of the sea-son. Tedford noted that the defense put in a lot of work during the week and that Presbyterian had nothing to do with its preparation.

“We were all over them about atten-tion to detail and sense of urgency,” Tedford said. “It’s about us this week and us getting better in some things that we have been struggling with.”

Should Cal defeat the Blue Hose, Tedford would be cemented as Cal’s all-time winningest coach. Last week he tied Andy Smith, who led the Bears

to 74 victories between 1916 and 1925.Typically reserved about comments

regarding his position in Cal football lore, Tedford joked that he “just out-lasted the rest of them,” and was quick to credit both his past and present players about getting him to this moment.

“It’s an honor, obviously,” Tedford said. “It’s more to do with the people and players that have played in my time here. I feel fortunate to be the head coach here but this is really about this year’s team.”

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Presbyterian College, a school of 1,200 students in a remote corner of South Carolina, once earned a spot

on SportsCenter. The date was Sept. 2, 2010, and the event was a season-opening road game against Wake Forest.

The Blue Hose — yep, that’s Presby’s nickname — line up on their own 32-yard line in a single-back spread. The team from Clinton is down 28-0 just 27 minutes into the season and, at this point, there isn’t a whole lot left to lose.

The quarterback throws a screen to his left that bounces off the turf and into the hands of a receiver, who holds the ball and slaps it in frustration. Three defenders rush toward him, but stop short on the dead play.

Except the ball, which traveled on a per-fectly executed lateral, is still very much live. And downfield, a second receiver sud-denly has miles and miles of space. It’s an easy toss. Touchdown.

“We wanted to have a little something

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up our sleeve,” says Brandon Miley, the quarterback who first bounced the ball. “One of our coaches decided to throw in this play. We practiced it all week, and either we couldn’t get the skip down, or we couldn’t catch the ball by the wide receiver, or we couldn’t throw it out there.

“I can honestly say that, leading up to Wake Forest, that play never actually worked 100 percent.”

Presbyterian, as a program, isn’t exactly at 100 percent either.

In 2007, the school began a transition process from Division II into Division I, becoming the last to do so before the NCAA instituted a four-year moratorium on applications. A year later, the Blue Hose played their first FCS football sea-son in the Big South, scheduling oppo-nents such as Coastal Carolina and Liberty.

As part of the transitional period, Presbyterian won’t be eligible for the post-season until 2012.

“It’s almost like an (academic) accredita-tion that colleges and universities have to go through,” says head coach Harold Nichols, a 1989 alum who was hired in

2009. “It’s been quite an ordeal.”Nichols’ debut at his alma mater was not

an auspicious one. The Blue Hose fielded a young squad and lost every single game that fall. The following campaign was mar-ginally better as the team notched two wins, including a 42-6 blowout of Davidson.

This year, the squad split its first two games, and heads to San Francisco on the heels of a 17-point victory.

But how exactly did a program like this, which had never traveled west of Tennessee, end up scheduling a Pac-12 team?

A year ago, the Pac-10 suddenly added two new members. Meanwhile, Cal

was sorting out a new home venue due to the renovation of Memorial Stadium.

By the time the dust settled, it was already November and the Bears didn’t have too many options for an open slot on Sept. 17. They referred to a list of teams still looking for matches, and hooked up with Presbyterian.

For nonconference scheduling, Cal essentially follows a sort of A-B-C formula, with A) another BCS team, such as Michigan State, B) a competitive FBS

team, such as Nevada or Fresno State and C) an FCS team.

Usually, the Bears find cupcakes closer to home, like UC Davis or Eastern Washington; the late scramble forced them to look much farther east. So this Friday, the Blue Hose boarded a plane and flew west.

CeeJay Harris is one of three Californians on the Presbyterian roster.

He didn’t dream of playing football as a Blue Hose because that’s not a dream that anyone has, but Saturday will be a home-coming of sorts for him.

The inside linebacker from Long Beach grew up a UCLA and Green Bay Packers fan, and yearned for offers from the Bruins or Texas. Neither material-ized, so he spent two years at nearby Cerritos College, amassing 145 tackles and a first-team all-state mention. He’d hoped those numbers would speak for themselves, but big-time schools didn’t look his way.

Harris was walking into McDonald’s — ready for his standard order of two Big Macs and a Hi-C — when he got the call

The Presbyterian Blue Hose traveled over 2,250 miles to reach San Francisco

from South Carolina. Their individual journeys — and dreams — go even further.

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says “If you choose to sleep then your competitor is going to outwork you and get the edge.”

Lupoi experienced a full-time program fluctuation as a Cal player.

Coming from high school football pow-erhouse De La Salle in Concord, Calif., Lupoi experienced the dismal one-win 2001 campaign under Tom Holmoe as well as the near Rose Bowl miss in 2004. Lupoi spent six seasons with the program because of a medical redshirt — he broke his foot three times — and signed up as a graduate assistant in 2006 when NFL opportunities did not materialize. Within two years he would become the defensive line coach.

“No question that there is a great passion for Cal from him,” Cal head coach Jeff Tedford says. “Anytime some-body can play, be a graduate assistant and work into a full-time spot, you’re always proud of that as a head coach because you see somebody grow.”

Lupoi discusses how “fortunate” he is when describing seemingly everything about his rise through the Cal program. He feels fortunate to have played and coached under Jeff Tedford. He feels fortunate to have the opportunity to coach kids that are not all that younger than him. And that’s why he doesn’t let a day pass without working.

“We never want to have a stagnate day as a defensive line,” Lupoi says. “I want to live what I coach in trying to improve.”

If intensity and energy were his defin-ing characteristics, Tosh Lupoi would not have already established himself as a household name in the fraternity of col-lege football coaches and assistants.

Every college football coach — from head coach to grad assistant — has to

out-work his opponent and bring palpable energy on a daily basis. And to work as a college foot-ball coach, one must recruit actively and effectively.

Newly turned 30-year olds aren’t usually the ones being labeled recruit-ing “aces” and called “integral” parts of coaching staffs, but Lupoi has already seemed to pass the “up-and-comer” label at least when it comes to bringing kids into the program.

In the college football community, Lupoi has picked up somewhat of a larger-than-life reputation as a recruit-ing giant responsible for every top-tier recruit that Cal signs. He was Rivals.com’s Recruiter of the Year in 2010 and was the youngest coach on ESPN.com’s list of top 25 recruiters in 2011.

Both Lupoi and Tedford are quick to dispel the notion of Lupoi being a recruiting giant because they know the efforts of their colleagues and peers. However, there is no denying that Lupoi has an energy that is draw-ing players — not just defensive line-men — into the Cal program.

In years past, hearlded recruits like Keenan Allen, Chris McCain and

Viliami Moala would have been lost to higher-profile programs such as Alabama, Auburn and USC. Lupoi was identified as a lead recruiter for all three future Golden Bears.

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Tosh Lupoi is

an imposing presence not just because he is a former defensive lineman but because you know that even in casual conversation, his mind is on football.

It’s Monday afternoon: There is no practice today and Cal’s defensive line coach has taken time out of his weekly preparation to conduct an interview and do a photo shoot. From the open-ing introduction until the last photo is snapped, his demeanor is unchanged and his focus has not appeared to waver. Stoically intense, Lupoi delivers a firm handshake and stands with a posture that would impress even the most crotchety grandparents.

As Lupoi walks out of the practice facility, a colleague mentions that the Washington game in two weeks will kick off at 12:30 p.m., an announce-ment made earlier that morning.

“I don’t know who Washington is yet,” Lupoi says. “We have Presbyterian this week.”

Lupoi isn’t blowing off the statement, but he is also not kidding. The mindset right now must be Presbyterian.

Because, even when the team name is Presbyterian, the defensive line coach must keep improving his unit. It’s the coach’s job to keep invigorating his guys. He knows that his defensive line-men will likely disorient, dismantle and pretty much dispatch the Presbyterian protection, so he’s going to want to make his guys attack again. And again.

And when he goes home, he’s going to actively recruit the next generation of Cal players to get them to come attack again. And again.

Because Tosh Lupoi is not merely energetic and intense. He is a techni-cian aggressively utilizing his youth.

Tosh Lupoi is a 21st-century foot-ball coach. He is doing his part to build Cal the way this generation builds programs.

“We try and teach our guys that when football is done and you go into the work force that it is everyday,” Lupoi

Cal defensive line coach Tosh Lupoi has become a recruiting giant and an elite

position coach due to his fierce intensity, unlimited energy

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Trevor Guyton saw the ball. It had been knocked out of the

opposing quarterback’s hand. It fell to the ground, then bounced right in his path.

The defensive end surged to the ball, snagged it and ran it 18 yards into the end zone for the touchdown.

“It was really just doing my job (and) good things happen when you do your job,” says Guyton, whose score helped the Cal football team defeat Fresno State, 36-21, on Sept. 3.

“When I see it open like that, I gotta get it. WIT, do whatever it takes to get that ball and get it into the end zone.”

It was his first touchdown – not just of the year or his Cal career, but ever. Then again, he didn’t start playing football until eighth grade.

Trevor Guyton had a different mindset. Back then, he wasn’t starting for the Bears or thinking about following his two prede-cessors on the D-line to the NFL. He wasn’t even playing football necessarily for the future — just the present.

“Trevor is a thinking person,” his father Odell says. “(Football) had to come to him in the way it does.

“He is a doer and not a dreamer.”Guyton wanted to play football as a kid,

but wasn’t allowed since the local youth football teams went by weight, not age.

“Trevor was a big guy and we didn’t want him to play with kids a lot older than he was,” his mother Karen says. “His bones weren’t strong enough yet. He was a lot younger. We just never let him play.”

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eman Trevor Guyton did not become completely entrenched in football until he was battling in the trenches at Cal.

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By the time he entered high school, Guyton had not yet developed a fierce fire for football. He did not necessarily see football as his calling, as his future.

But he had the size, speed and potential to play at the next level. In fact, he was offered a scholarship after his sophomore year of high school — before he had even taken a varsity snap.

His squad at Redmond High School, located just east of Seattle, had

traveled to Washington State for a team camp, and Guyton was named the MVP.

“He came on as well as I’ve ever seen,” says Mike Pluschke, his high school football coach. “All of a sudden he had a first step faster than seniors.

“Everything clicked.”Guyton laughs when he thinks about

it. He says he was shocked — “I had never thought about going to college for football” — when then Washington State head coach Bill Doba offered him a scholarship on the spot.

His parents did not believe him. Not that he wasn’t good. He had a “lot of ability there giving kids concussions there by just hitting them,” Odell says.

“I thought he misunderstood,” Karen says. “It really wasn’t until they sent the paperwork, it was official.”

He had the potential, but did he have the mindset? His high school coach never doubted him, especially not after his showing at Washington State.

“All of a sudden, this young man has the world in his palm,” Pluschke says. “He can have whatever he wants.”

What he wanted, in part, was a school with strong academics and less rain than Seattle. He found that at Cal.

“(Football) enabled him to move on into college even though I don’t think he knew what kind of a career goal he had,” Karen Guyton says. “At least having football gave him next step.”

Dreams of playing in the NFL were still yards away.

Behind future first-round NFL draft picks Tyson Alualu and

Cameron Jordan on the depth chart,

Guyton didn’t see the field much his first two years, but what he learned from the veterans was invaluable.

So too, Guyton thought, was play-ing time. He burned his redshirt freshman year, but was “still just not there mentally yet,” he laments.

“I kind of went through the motions and I still loved the game and still played hard, but as far as my passion for it, it wasn’t where it is now,” he says.

His mom admitted that his first year was a big adjustment.

“I’m not sure he was ready to be invested in his future,” she says. “It was a way to step through to the next part of his life. I think it was maybe after the second year that he felt he could run with this and take it to the next level.”

Despite not being named a start-er, Guyton still figured to see regu-lar playing time his junior year. Yet a high ankle sprain caused him to miss the middle of 2010.

Once he finally got healthy, though, it all seemed to click. He earned his first career start at Washington State, where it all began for him. He led the squad with two and a half sacks and was second with seven tackles in Cal’s Nov. 6 win. He started the season’s remaining three games, a role he has solidified in 2011.

Last week against Colorado, he tallied five tackles and came up especially big late. The Buffs were first-and-goal from the four-yard line in overtime and Guyton was able to break through the offensive line on consecutive plays to halt the running back. Colorado was forced to kick a field goal, allowing the Bears to win the game on the following drive.

With his intensified focus, Guyton is finally showing his true potential.

“His (original) goal was just getting a college education and this was a way to do it,” his mom says. “Now he’s get-ting ready to graduate and thinking about the NFL.”

Karen Guyton isn’t sure of her son’s future. Neither is Trevor, but he has

aspirations to play in the NFL. If his two predecessors can, why not him?

“Why shouldn’t I have those expectations for myself?” he says. “Thanks to those guys who’ve proven that you don’t have to be that physical freak ... I feel like I’m definite-ly in the picture and I can be

there by the end of this year.”

His father says it boils down to his passion, at an all-time high.

“It had to come to him in the way it did,” he says. “He really wants it. He wants to be a pro football player.”

Trevor Guyton has the opportunity.

Take it. Seize it. Run with it.

Just like he did with that football against Fresno State.

He’ll end up in another end zone.

Somewhere. Someday.

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lupoi: Defensive line coach reaching players, recruits with youthful vigor

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from Presby. It was already January 2010 and, just out of junior college eligibility, he was ecstatic to finally have somewhere to play.

That’s the way a lot of Presbyterian stories go: Borderline player waits out a dream a size or two too big, and find that the only place that will let them grow is a town of 8,000 in Laurens County. Maybe they had tepid offers to walk on at NC State or East Carolina. Maybe they were deemed too short for Eastern Michigan.

But for generations — or at least stretching back to the Blue Hose’s own head coach — these players have found their way to Clinton.

“I thought Coach Bowden needed

me to play quarterback at Florida State in the worst way,” says Nichols, who grew up just south of Daytona Beach. “Didn’t quite work out for me.”

What has worked out for him and countless other young men is a place where games are attended by a small but faithful group, a few thousand strong. So what if the hottest spot in town is Walmart? It was the game that drew them here.

And heading into a game no one expects him to win, Nichols rejects the idea of moral victories.

He refers to Appalachian State, the school three hours north that once felled mighty Michigan.

He believes in this program, maybe because it once believed in him.

Tosh Lupoi is an innovative recruiter, but he doesn’t laud himself on it. Besides, recruiting is only some of the battle. Some would argue it is most of the battle these days, but that doesn’t mean that these kids will not hit in practice. Hit and hit hard.

When talking to his linemen and his head coach, people emphasize Lupoi’s energy. Why overanalyze it? Energy and effort every single day. That’s defense. That’s football.

His fourth season as the defensive line coach, Lupoi has already had two defensive linemen — Tyson Alualu and Cameron Jordan — drafted in the first round and the younger gen-eration of Cal pass rushers and run stuffers may have a few potential first round picks on the way.

“He’s coached us all so much. It’s crazy,” senior Ernest Owusu says. “What the younger guys are doing is

nothing compared to what me, Trevor (Guyton) and KP (Kendrick Payne) were doing when we got here. The sky is the limit for them.”

Tosh Lupoi is pushing his kids. Not pushing them over or pushing them out. He is trying to draw out tech-nique with the intensity needed to last 60 minutes. During practice, that means pushing them a little bit more.

“Once you step in there ...” Owusu trails off and laughs. “If you were to step in and interview him during practice it would be completely dif-ferent. It’s like a light switch.”

Tosh Lupoi coaches defensive line-men. He coaches intensity, ferocity and aggressiveness and he’s at an age where he is naturally reaching his stu-dents because of his vigorous youth. And he’s still building and won’t be stopping anytime soon.

Stay tuned.

Senior defensive lin

eman Trevor Guyton did not become completely entrenched in football until he was battling in the trenches at Cal.

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team comparison

Cornerback is often a thankless job, but Steve Williams has warranted a round of applause for his play last week against Colorado.

Sure the Buffaloes passed for 474 yards last week, but the secondary — namely Williams — came up big when it needed to.

The Dallas, Texas native broke up quarterback Tyler Hansen’s pass to star receiver Paul Richardson on first down with about a minute to go in the game. Colorado ended up kicking a field goal.

Williams did the same thing in overtime, this time on third-and-goal from the

five-yard line. The Buffs were forced to kick a field goal, allow-ing the Bears to win the game on

a touchdown the following drive.

Williams started just three games in 2010 but

is a full-time starter now — and will

be for some time.

Keenan Allen had just a single 100-yard receiv-ing game last season as a freshman. He already has two so far in 2011.

The wide receiver has compiled 216 yards on 14 catches this season. It helps that he’s catching passes from his half-brother Zach Maynard.

Allen is healthy this season and becoming the go-to target that he was supposed to be com-ing in as a five-star recruit.

Take last Saturday’s game against Colorado for instance. In overtime, at first-and-30, he caught a 32 yard pass. Two plays later, he caught the game-winning touchdown pass.

The Greensboro, N.C. native likely won’t be in at the end of today’s game. A crucial piece of the Bears’ offensive puzzle, he’ll proba-bly play only a few series.

Maybe just enough to rack up another 100 yards receiving.

players to watch

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Height: 5’ 10”Weight: 185 lbs.Sophomore

CB #1Height: 6’ 3”Weight: 205 lbs.Sophomore

Career Statistics: 31 Tackles 7 Pass Breakups 2 Interceptions

Career Statistics: 60 Catches 706 Yards Receiving 6 TDs

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