Utah at California

POINSETTIA BOWL - Qualcomm Stadium - San Diego, CA. The Utes have the longest Bowl winning streak of any team in college football, stringing together eight consecutive wins. Cal has the fourth-longest current streak at four, suffering their last loss in 2004. The Utes were expected to be down from a year ago, but this team never seems to fall too far. They were trounced by TCU (one of the top 5 teams in the country). In that game, they managed to score more points against the Frogs than any other team this season! The other two losses for Utah came to BYU in OT, and Oregon on the road by just 7, losing the "stats battle” by just 15 yards. The bottom line is that Utah has only lost to three good teams this year, taking care of business vs. everyone else. The Bears went into Oregon as well, but their fate was not nearly as impressive as they were destroyed 42-3. You have to question the motivation here for Cal as they have had several no-shows this season. The Bears only lost four games, but they lost those four games by a total of 115 points, or nearly 30 per game! They have either been good, or extremely bad. I don't think drawing Utah in a Bowl game is going to get their attention, while the Utes always show up, Bowl game or not, and very rarely are not hanging around or winning. I like Utah in this one as Cal can't be trusted.