Cal football, once poised for take off, now on a short runway

April 17, 2025

By Richard Johnson, CBS Sports: What’s happening at Cal — 10 outgoing transfers this week — isn’t just a run-of-the-mill transfer portal churn. Of the 22 total outgoing transfers off a team that finished 6-7, 18 play offense, including all five running backs who transferred this week, making up for the most staggering spring portal window storyline this side of Knoxville, Tennessee.

Several people with direct knowledge of the Cal football program, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly, described to CBS Sports a program at a crossroads — the culmination of the fallout of uneasy relationships, behind-the-scenes power struggles and a program quietly slipping into one of the most precarious positions in the Power Four.

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The unraveling of Cal: Star exodus, a donor ultimatum and a football program running out of runway

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