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Worst outcome: BCS looks right.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Gary Peterson
SAN DIEGO _ Of all the scenarios that could have come to pass in Thursday's Holiday Bowl, of all the epitaphs California's football team could have authored for its riveting 2004 season, you'd have figured this among the least likely.
But there it was in all its deflating glory: Cal made the BCS look like pure genius.
The final score was Texas Tech 45, Cal 31. Somewhere six computers are slapping their thighs and howling at the moon.
And somewhere, a couple dozen college head coaches are nodding their heads sagely, as if they saw this coming all the way from Hattiesberg, Miss. Maybe they did, and maybe they didn't. There is no disputing that Cal saved its worst game for last.
"You said it," Cal coach Jeff Tedford said in response to a postgame question. "It was one-sided."
It wasn't just Cal's lack of healthy receivers, although that was a problem. It was that quarterback Aaron Rodgers was harried as he hasn't been all season, and as a result made uncharacteristically poor throws and dubious decisions.
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