![]() The Golden Bears started 5-0 before coming within a touchdown (24-17) of taking down eventual national champ Washington. In a matter of weeks, Cal rocketed from its first national ranking since Chuck Muncie to entrenchment in the Top 10. In a year the 49ers fell short of the playoffs for the first time in eight years, the grunt work of Denny Green and Bruce Snyder paid off: for the first time in the same season, each team went to a bowl game. The satisfaction of muting the Bears' incessant trash talk ("Stanford is all the talk now – Cardinal silences Bears" ran the San Jose Mercury News headline) accompanied the joy of an unlikely landmark season. This year, however, marks the 20th anniversary of the 1991 Big Game, a 38-21 Cardinal victory over 9-1 and sixth-ranked Cal that's one for Stanford fans to savor forever. It was a scene straight out of Major League: "I didn't even know they still had a team." As USC went 16 years (until 1991) without losing to Stanford, while UCLA spent an entire generation (1972 to 1989) going unbeaten against Cal, the Cardinal and Bears floundered in mediocrity. (Photo: )Frankly, Stanford and Cal made college football uncool beyond recognition.
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