2014 California Golden Bears football team

American college football season

2014 California Golden Bears football

Conference	Pac-12 Conference
Division	North Division
Record	5–7 (3–6 Pac-12)
Head coach	Sonny Dykes (2nd season)
Offensive coordinator	Tony Franklin (2nd season)
Offensive scheme	Air raid
Defensive coordinator	Art Kaufman (1st season)
Base defense	4–3
Home stadium	California Memorial Stadium Levi's Stadium
Seasons← 2013 2015 →

2014 Pac-12 Conference football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
North Division
No. 2 Oregon x$^	8	–	1	13	–	2
Stanford	5	–	4	8	–	5
Washington	4	–	5	8	–	6
California	3	–	6	5	–	7
Oregon State	2	–	7	5	–	7
Washington State	2	–	7	3	–	9
South Division
No. 19 Arizona x	7	–	2	10	–	4
No. 10 UCLA	6	–	3	10	–	3
No. 12 Arizona State	6	–	3	10	–	3
No. 20 USC	6	–	3	9	–	4
No. 21 Utah	5	–	4	9	–	4
Colorado	0	–	9	2	–	10
Championship: Oregon 51, Arizona 13
^ – College Football Playoff participant $ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

The 2014 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bears were led by second-year head coach Sonny Dykes and played their home games at Memorial Stadium. They were members of the North Division of the Pac-12 Conference. When compared to 2013, Cal improved to 5–7, starting out with a 4–1 start, but losing six of their last seven games. It averaged 38.3 points per game, second-best in the Pac-12 and 11th-best in FBS, generating a program-record 459 total points for the season. However, the Golden Bears lost 367.2 passing yards per game along with 42 total passing touchdowns, both of these numbers ranked last out of 128 FBS teams. From Week 3 to Week 5, the Bears played three consecutive high-scoring games that were won or lost in the final seconds. The Bears lost on a Hail Mary to Arizona 49–45, but beat Colorado 59–56 in double overtime in their next game. The following week, Dykes faced his former Air Raid mentor Mike Leach and the Washington State Cougars. California allowed an FBS record 734 passing yards to Cougars' senior quarterback Connor Halliday, but still won 60–59 when WSU missed a 19-yard field goal with 15 seconds to play. They finished 3–6 in Pac-12, in fourth place in the North Division.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
August 30	12:30 p.m.	at Northwestern*	Ryan Field Evanston, IL	ABC/ESPN2	W 31–24	34,228
September 6	12:00 p.m.	Sacramento State*	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	P12N	W 55–14	48,145
September 20	7:00 p.m.	at Arizona	Arizona Stadium Tucson, AZ	P12N	L 45–49	45,595
September 27	1:00 p.m.	Colorado	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	P12N	W 59–56	39,821
October 4	7:30 p.m.	at Washington State	Martin Stadium Pullman,WA	P12N	W 60–59	30,020
October 11	3:00 p.m.	Washington	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	P12N	L 7–31	44,449
October 18	12:30 p.m.	UCLA	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA (rivalry)	ABC/ESPN2	L 34–36	49,257
October 24	7:00 p.m.	No. 6 Oregon	Levi's Stadium Santa Clara, CA	FS1	L 41–59	55,575
November 1	7:30 p.m.	at Oregon State	Reser Stadium Corvallis, OR	P12N	W 45–31	42,479
November 13	6:00 p.m.	at USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	ESPN	L 30–38	64,615
November 22	1:00 p.m.	Stanford	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA (Big Game)	FS1	L 17–38	56,483
November 29	1:30 p.m.	BYU*	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	P12N	L 35–42	47,856
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Pacific time

Personnel

2014 California Golden Bears football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	Name	Class
OL	Chris Adcock	Sr
WR	Stephen Anderson	Sr
WR	Jake Ashton	Fr
WR	Jack Austin	Fr
OL	Aaron Cochran	Fr
WR	Caleb Coleman	Fr
WR	Trevor Davis	Jr
RB	Vic Enwere	Fr
RB	Lucas Gingold	Sr
QB	Jared Goff	So
WR	Chris Harper	Jr
WR	Maurice Harris	Jr
QB	Austin Hinder	Sr
WR	Raymond Hudson	Fr
RB	Patrick Laird	Fr
RB	Daniel Lasco	Jr
WR	Kenny Lawler	So
WR	Bryce McGovern	Sr
OL	Steven Moore	So
RB	Khalfani Muhammad	So
WR	Griffin Platt	So
WR	Darius Powe	Jr
WR	Matt Rockett	Fr
QB	Luke Rubenzer	Fr
LB	Bryce Treggs	Jr
RB	Tre Watson	Fr
WR	Patrick Worstell	So

Defense

Pos.	Name	Class
CB	Darius Allensworth	Fr
LB	Hamilton Anoa'i	Fr
DE	Todd Barr	Jr
LB	Michael Barton	So
CB	Trey Cheek	Fr
DT	Austin Clark	Sr
S	Cormac Craigie	Jr
DE	Antoine Davis	Jr
DT	David Davis	Jr
LB	Raymond Davison	Fr
LB	Devante Downs	Fr
DB	Cedric Dozier	So
DE	Kennedy Emesibe	Fr
S	David Garner	So
CB	A.J. Greathouse	Fr
DT	Mustafa Jalil	Sr
LB	Jalen Jefferson	Jr
DE	Jonathan Johnson	Jr
LB	Jake Kearney	So
DT	Trevor Kelly	Jr
DE	Puka Lopa	Jr
S	Michael Lowe	Sr
DE	Marcus Manley	So
DB	Stefan McClure	Jr
DL	Tony Mekari	Fr
LB	Hardy Nickerson	So
LB	Brennan Scarlett	Sr
DB	Avery Sebastian	Jr
LB	Edward Tandy	So
LB	Alsea Tongilava	Fr
LB	Arthur Wainwright	Jr
CB	Cameron Walker	So
DE	Noah Westerfield	Fr
CB	Darius White	Jr
DT	Harrison Wilfley	Sr
DB	Joel Willis	Jr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class
K		Jeremy Langford	Sr
P		Cole Leininger	So

Head coach

Sonny Dykes

Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible

Injured
Redshirt

Game summaries

February 7, 2014 – Defensive end Ted Agu, collapsed and died after a training run

Northwestern

	1	2	3	4	Total
• California	14	10	7	0	31
Northwestern	0	7	14	3	24

Date: August 30
Location: Ryan Field

Sacramento State

	1	2	3	4	Total
Sacramento St	0	7	7	0	14
• California	28	17	10	0	55

Date: September 6
Location: California Memorial Stadium

At Arizona

See also: 2014 Arizona Wildcats football team California Golden Bears (2–0) at Arizona Wildcats (3–0)

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
California	14	14	3	14	45
Arizona	0	6	7	36	49

at Arizona Stadium, Tucson, Arizona

Date: September 20, 2014
Game time: 7:00 p.m. MST
Game weather: Partly cloudy; 83 °F (28 °C); Wind 6 miles per hour (9.7 km/h; 5.2 kn)
Game attendance: 45,595
Referee: Terry Leyden
TV announcers (Pac-12 Network): Kevin Calabro, Glenn Parker, and Jill Savage

Game information

First quarter

CAL – Daniel Lasco 44-yard run (James Langford kick), 14:17. California 7–0. Drive: 3 plays, 75 yards, 0:43.
CAL – Bryce Treggs 80-yard pass from Jared Goff (James Langford kick), 11:53. California 14–0. Drive: 1 play, 80 yards, 0:13.

Second quarter

ARZ – Casey Skowron 39-yard field goal, 10:39. California 14–3. Drive: 7 plays, 39 yards, 2:18.
CAL – Stephen Anderson 26-yard pass from Jared Goff (Jeremy Langford kick), 8:55. California 21–3. Drive: 5 plays, 75 yards, 1:44.
ARZ – Casey Skowron 28-yard field goal, 5:28. California 21–6. Drive: 13 plays, 65 yards, 5:27.
CAL – Chris Harper 30-yard pass from Jared Goff (Jeremy Langford kick), 3:43. California 28–6. Drive: 4 plays, 75 yards, 1:45.

Third quarter

ARZ – Cayleb Jones 41-yard pass from Anu Solomon (Casey Skowron kick), 11:02. California 28–13. Drive: 8 plays, 96 yards, 1:54.
CAL – Jeremy Langford 45-yard field goal, 8:28. California 31–13. Drive: 9 plays, 48 yards, 2:34.'

Fourth quarter

ARZ – Casey Skowron 31-yard field goal, 14:46. California 31–16. Drive: 7 plays, 39 yards, 2:04.
ARZ – Austin Hill 9-yard pass from Anu Solomon (Casey Skowron kick), 13:36. California 31–23. Drive: 2 plays, 17 yards, 0:32.
CAL – Khalfani Muhammad 50-yard run (Jeremy Langford kick), 10:56. California 38–23. Drive: 6 plays, 75 yards, 2:40.
ARZ – Cayleb Jones 16-yard pass from Anu Solomon (Casey Skowron kick), 8:09. California 38–30. Drive: 9 plays, 75 yards, 2:47.
CAL – Khalfani Muhammad 6-yard run (Jeremy Langford kick), 5:21. California 45–30. Drive: 6 plays, 75 yards, 2:48.
ARZ – Terris Jones-Grigsby 6-yard run (Casey Skowron kick), 3:30. California 45–37. Drive: 8 plays, 75 yards, 1:51.
ARZ – Cayleb Jones 15-yard pass from Anu Solomon (pass failed), 2:44. California 45–43. Drive: 4 plays, 41 yards, 0:43. *ARZ – Austin Hill 47-yard pass from Anu Solomon, 0:00. Arizona 49–45. Drive: 6 plays, 70 yards, 0:52.

Top passers

CAL – Jared Goff – 18/30, 380 yards, 3 TD, int
ARZ – Anu Solomon – 47/73, 520 yards, 5 TD, 2 int

Top rushers

CAL – Daniel Lasco – 20 rushes, 123 yards, TD
ARZ – Anu Solomon – 16 rushes, 46 yards

Top receivers

CAL – Bryce Treggs – 5 receptions, 119 yards, TD
ARZ – Cayleb Jones – 13 receptions, 186 yards, 3 TD

Colorado

	1	2	3	4	OT	2OT	Total
Colorado	21	7	7	14	7	0	56
• California	7	7	21	14	7	3	59

Date: September 27
Location: California Memorial Stadium

Washington State

	1	2	3	4	Total
• California	0	13	28	19	60
Washington St	10	14	28	7	59

Date: October 4
Location: Martin Stadium

Washington

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Washington	14	14	0	3	31
California	0	0	7	0	7

Date: October 11
Location: California Memorial Stadium

UCLA

	1	2	3	4	Total
• UCLA	7	17	9	3	36
California	0	14	14	6	34

Date: October 18
Location: California Memorial Stadium
Referee: Michael Mothershed

1st quarter scoring: UCLA – Paul Perkins 16-yard pass from Brett Hundley (Ka’imi Fairbairn kick)

2nd quarter scoring: Cal – Daniel Lasco 3-yard run (James Langford kick); UCLA – Fairbairn 38-yard field goal; Cal – Chris Harper 7-yard pass from Luke Rubenzer (Langford kick); UCLA – Jordan James 11-yard run (Fairbairn kick); UCLA – Perkins 49-yard pass from Hundley (Fairbairn kick)

3rd quarter scoring: Cal – Lasco 2-yard run (James Langford kick); UCLA – Fairbairn 24-yard field goal; Cal – Trevor Davis 24-yard pass from Jared Goff (Langford kick); UCLA – Hundley 15-yard run (Hundley pass fail)

4th quarter scoring: Cal – Kenny Lawler 23-yard pass from Goff (Goff run fail); UCLA – Fairbairn 26-yard field goal

Oregon

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Oregon	14	24	14	7	59
California	14	14	7	6	41

Date: October 24
Location: Levi's Stadium

Oregon State

	1	2	3	4	Total
• California	3	17	7	18	45
Oregon St	0	10	14	7	31

Date: November 1
Location: Reser Stadium

USC

	1	2	3	4	Total
California	2	7	7	14	30
• USC	21	10	0	7	38

Date: November 13
Location: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Stanford

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Stanford	10	14	7	7	38
California	0	7	3	7	17

Date: November 22
Location: California Memorial Stadium

BYU

	1	2	3	4	Total
• BYU	14	0	14	14	42
California	7	14	7	7	35

Date: November 29
Location: California Memorial Stadium

References

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"Sports Force Analytics, College Statistics - 2014 National Team Leaders". www.cfbstats.com. Archived from the original on May 10, 2019. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
Kunnath, Avinash (December 1, 2014). "Cal defense gives up most passing yards ... ever!". California Golden Blogs. Archived from the original on April 22, 2019. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
DeMarzo, John (October 6, 2014). "Cal has the craziest 3 weeks in college football history". New York Post. Archived from the original on April 22, 2019. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
Vernon, Mike (October 5, 2014). "Missed field goal allows Cal to edge WSU 60-59". SFGate. Archived from the original on April 22, 2019. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
"Schedule". University of California Department of Athletics. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
Killion, Ann (February 8, 2014). "Cal Grieving Over Death of Football Player Ted Agu". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
"California at Arizona Game Stats". Stat Broadcast. September 20, 2014. Retrieved September 20, 2014.

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