The California Golden Bears will open their 2024 college football schedule on August 31, against UC Davis of the FCS. See below for more.

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2024 Cal Game and TV Schedule

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Cal 2024 Strength of Schedule

• Using their opponents’ combined win total last year, the Golden Bears will be playing the 55th-ranked schedule in terms of difficulty.
• According to our predictions, Cal will be facing the 19th-ranked schedule in terms of difficulty.
• Using its opponents’ projected win total this season, Cal will be facing the 58th-ranked schedule in terms of toughness.
• The Golden Bears will have the 57th-ranked conference schedule in college football, based on their ACC opponents’ combined win total last year (54).
• Cal has seven games this season against teams that went over .500 in 2023. That schedule includes three teams that had nine or more victories and two squads with less than four wins last year.
• The Golden Bears have seven games scheduled against teams that made a bowl game last year.

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Cal Stat Insights (2023)

• Offensively, the Golden Bears ranked 60th in FBS with 392.5 yards per game last season. Meanwhile, they ranked 105th in total defense (413.2 yards allowed per contest).
• With 32.8 points allowed per game on defense, which ranked 20th-worst in FBS last season, Cal was forced to lean on its 48th-ranked offense (30.2 points per contest) to keep it in games.
• Despite sporting a bottom-25 pass defense last season that ranked third-worst in FBS (280.7 passing yards allowed per game), the Golden Bears played better offensively, ranking 72nd in FBS by totaling 219.7 passing yards per game.
• Cal totaled 172.8 rushing yards per game on offense last season, which ranked it 47th in FBS. On the other side of the ball, it ranked 37th, giving up 132.5 rushing yards per game.
• Cal owned the 74th-ranked turnover margin in college football last season at -1, forcing 27 turnovers (third in FBS) while turning it over 28 times (130th in FBS).

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