Cal Football Spring Showcase Set For Saturday
Fans can get a sneak preview of the 2024 Cal football team and enjoy a wide array of fun activities at the admission-free Cal Football Spring Showcase at California Memorial Stadium on Saturday, April 20. Gates open to the public at 1:30 p.m. PT with Pac-12 Networks' live television coverage and a scrimmage beginning at 2:30 p.m.
Fans can enter California Memorial Stadium via Gates 1, 2 and 5 on the west side of the venue and follow signage to adjacent seating areas.
Scheduled activities include …
- Cal football scrimmage
- Bud Light Beer Garden featuring a variety of food and beverage options for purchase (must be 21 or over to purchase alcoholic beverages)
- Launch of the Cal Football Summer Reading Challenge and book drive featuring an exclusive meet-and-greet opportunity with Jaydn Ott and Jack Endries (see below for more information)
- A family fun zone located on the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Plaza, featuring face painting, an obstacle course, QB toss, corn hole, and more
- The opportunity to pick up the official Cal Football Spring Showcase schedule poster
- Special appearances by Cal football legends
- A post-game autograph session with current players and coaches
- And much more!
Cal Football Summer Reading Challenge And Book Drive
- Help us combat summer reading loss with the Cal Football Summer Reading Challenge originally founded by former Golden Bear Patrick Laird in 2018 and hosted this year by Jack Endries and Jaydn Ott. This year's challenge will launch with a book drive at the Cal Football Spring Showcase.
- Contribute to the Cal Football Summer Reading Challenge book drive by bringing a new book to donate from our online wish list, to the Cal Football Spring Showcase. All books on our wish list are Jack & Jaydn tested, and teacher approved. Every book donated will find its way to a Title 1 classroom and a Bay Area student to encourage summer reading.
- Fans can bring their new books to the spring showcase and donate them at one of the two donation stations located at the Gate 2 and Gate 5 entrances to California Memorial Stadium.
- The first 500 people to donate will receive a limited-edition memorabilia item and priority access to Jack and Jaydn at the team's postgame autograph session.
- If you donate online, show a screenshot with proof of the donation at one of two donation stations at California Memorial Stadium.
- Donate 10 or more books from the online wish list and be entered into a raffle for a chance to win exciting autographed items from the Cal football program.
- In addition to the book drive and reading challenge, Jack and Jaydn will be visiting schools this summer along with their teammates to promote reading.
- Download a reading long and learn more by visiting the Cal Football Summer Reading Challenge Cal Football Summer Reading Challenge page. You can also follow us at @calbearsread on Instagram and X. Jack and Jaydn are excited to turn pages with you this summer!
2024 Cal Football Season Tickets
Visit CalBears.com to place a 2024 Cal football season-ticket deposit. Season-ticket holders receive benefits such as …
- An exclusive season-ticket holder gift
- Access to exclusive experiences and events
- Priority for purchasing additional single-game, away game, and postseason tickets
- Special discounts towards merchandise at sponsor locations
- And much more
2024 Cal Football
Cal will be in its first season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2024. The campaign begins Aug. 31 with a nonconference home game against UC Davis, while the Golden Bears' inaugural ACC conference game is scheduled for Sept. 21 at Florida State. Cal will host four home ACC contests in its first campaign as members of the league with Miami (Oct. 5), North Carolina State (Oct. 19), Syracuse (Nov. 16) and Stanford (Nov. 23) visiting California Memorial Stadium. In addition to the season-opener against UC Davis and four ACC games, the Bears welcome San Diego State (Sept. 14) and Oregon State (Oct. 26) to Berkeley.
Cal begins a five-game road schedule Sept. 7 by traveling to Auburn in the return contest of a home-and-home series with the perennial SEC powerhouse and will follow the Florida State trip with ACC road tilts at Pittsburgh (Oct. 12), Wake Forest (Nov. 8) and SMU (Nov. 30).
The ACC Championship Game is slated for Dec. 7 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
All Cal games are on Saturdays other than a Friday contest at Wake Forest, while the Bears have byes in Weeks 5 and 10. Kickoff times and television networks for all games will be announced at later dates.
Cal features a national honors candidate in junior running back Jaydn Ott, who rushed for 1,315 yards and 12 touchdowns on 246 carries last season while leading the Pac-12 and finishing ninth nationally with an average of 109.6 rushing yards per contest. Ott earned first-team All-Pac-12 honors and was an honorable mention All-American pick of Phil Steele in 2023. In his first two seasons at Cal, he has rushed for 2,212 yards and 20 touchdowns on 416 carries over 24 games and 22 starts. Ott will begin his 2024 junior campaign within 1,155 rushing yards and 15 rushing touchdowns of Russell White's all-time school records of 3,367 rushing yards and 35 touchdowns on the ground.
All six players from Cal's 2023 Independence Bowl squad that were honored on the All-Pac-12 Team last season return in 2024, with Ott joined by second-team punter Lachlan Wilson, honorable mention choices in outside linebacker David Reese and defensive back Craig Woodson, and a pair of freshman honorees in Pac-12 Freshman Defensive Player of the Year inside linebacker Cade Uluave and Freshman Offensive Player of the Year honorable mention selection quarterback Fernando Mendoza.
Uluave and tight end Jack Endries were also 2023 Freshman All-American picks with Uluave a three-time first-teamer (College Football Network, FWAA, The Athletic) while Endries earned first-team recognition from College Football News and second-team honors from The Athletic, in addition to being an honorable mention choice of the College Football Network.
Cal returns a total of 16 players who made at least six starts in 2023.
The returnees will be joined by a 2024 recruiting class that includes a transfer portal group that currently ranks No. 8 nationally according to On3Sports after reaching as high as No. 6. The recruiting class currently totals 30 scholarship players, including 18 who joined the Bears as mid-year enrollees in January.
Cal has also made coaching changes on the offensive side of the ball in 2024, including the promotion of Mike Bloesch to offensive coordinator/offensive line coach just before the 2023 Independence Bowl after he served as offensive line coach/run game coordinator during the regular season. Bloesch's 2023 offensive line provided room for Ott to run and was credited with much of the team's improvement on the ground last season with the Bears' 172.8 rushing yards per game average the program's highest since 2012.
In addition, Cal has added Sterlin Gilbert as passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach and former Cal standout offensive lineman Mike Saffell will coach the tight ends.
2024 Cal Football Schedule
Date – Opponent
Aug. 31 – UC Davis
Sept. 7 – at Auburn
Sept. 14 – San Diego State
Sept. 21 – at Florida State*
Oct. 5 – Miami*
Oct. 12 – at Pittsburgh*
Oct. 19 – North Carolina State*
Oct. 26 – Oregon State
Nov. 8 – at Wake Forest*
Nov. 16 – Syracuse*
Nov. 23 – Stanford*
Nov. 30 – at SMU*
Dec. 7 – ACC Football Championship Game+
Home Games In Bold At California Memorial Stadium; *ACC Game; +Bank Of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC; All Games On Saturdays Other Than Friday At Wake Forest; Kickoff Times And Broadcast Television Networks To Be Announced At Later Dates
California Memorial Stadium Location/Parking/Transportation Options
California Memorial Stadium is located at 2227 Piedmont Avenue in Berkeley between Bancroft Way and Stadium Rim Way, adjacent to the Simpson Center for Student-Athlete High Performance. Public transportation and ride sharing is highly recommended when visiting California Memorial Stadium. There are multiple public transportation options.
Visit bart.gov, actransit.org, 511.org and pt.berkeley.edu for more information.
Parking in the vicinity is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please read all signs at each parking location for further important information. See below for some suggestions in order of proximity to the stadium.
- Stadium Parking Garage – Paid parking near corner of Gayley Road (where Piedmont Avenue becomes Gayley Road) and Stadium Rim Way just north of the stadium
- Street Parking – Paid and two-hour free parking may be available on streets near the stadium
- Witter Lot – Paid parking near the corner of Centennial Drive and Stadium Rim Way just east of the stadium
- Lower Sproul Garage – Paid parking on the north side of Bancroft Way between Telegraph Avenue and Dana Street
- Rec Sports Facility Garage – Paid parking on the north side of Bancroft Way between Dana Street and Ellsworth Street
- Underhill Garage – Paid parking on the corner of Channing Way and College Avenue
Cal Football Championship CALiber Initiative
Fans can support the Cal football program by making a gift to the Cal Athletic Fund's Cal Football Championship CALiber initiative. Gifts help ensure Cal student-athletes have success at the highest levels of competition and academics.