While I'm also frustrated by the lack of fans in the stadium, I think I can understand why. Students are now two years removed from following a college football team. This was very obvious during the Nevada game where none of them seem to know what to do. Usually the freshman go along and all the sophomores and above "indoctrinate" them along with Rally Comm. Well the mic men were their usual subpar selfs at least at the start and with a lot more students being clueless there was no indoctrination.

In short, I don't think Cal football really hooked a lot of people. And the play, quite frankly, sucked when they did show up. Nevada had decent turnout. There were a lot of students including into the overflow section R. WSU wasn't awful. But can you blame them for being turned away from that?

As for the alumni and other fans, well it's been a long time since I've seen them all show up. Maybe the covid situation still contributes (there are probably some who are still hesitant esp. since Cal doesn't check vaccine proof except for club seats), but the attendance was lethargic going back to the Dykes era sans a few games.

Anyway if we win @AZ then I hope the turn out for USC will be good.