AIR FORCE > BEAR FORCE

Okay, the name of the game is the Armed Forces Bowl after all. If you're Cal, maybe you receive the invite, see that your dance partner is Air Force, and kindly beg out saying were going to be washing your hair that day.

Regardless, you do not want this game, this opponent. Air Force is the second-ranked rushing team in the nation and, besides, have you ever seen how far the closest watering hole to the barracks is? Colorado Springs is not Berkeley. So this is the biggest excitement, outside of shooting guns and flying jets, that these cadets have to look forward to for awhile.

Air Force has both an altitude and an attitude advantage.

And it's showing: 21-0, Falcons. I tsee one half of the sunny side of the field completely filled with the royal blue of the academy. I even think I see Majors Nelson and Healy over there. For Cal? You couldn't fill a freshman anthropology class with the number of Bear fans I see. I'm not even sure Adam Duritz is here. Will look for him later, though.

Quarterback change: Nate Longshore out for Cal; Kevin Riley in.