Jeff Tedford has built a great career as a college football coach. The architect of the Cal football team that kept Pete Carroll’s 2003 USC Trojans out of the BCS Championship Game has stepped down as head coach at Fresno State, citing health concerns. Tedford led Fresno State to multiple Mountain West Conference championships. More than a decade earlier, he guided Cal to a place of considerable prominence in the world of college football. Many people thought then, and still think now, that Cal deserved to be in the 2005 Rose Bowl against Michigan, but Texas was allowed into the game instead of the Golden Bears. If Cal had been invited to the game, the Golden Bears would have overcome a long Rose Bowl drought dating back to the 1950s. Tedford was that good. He took a largely irrelevant program that has struggled for most of the last 50 years and took it to the top level of the Pac-10, making it a relevant program in the West. Rodgers is the man who developed Aaron Rodgers as a quarterback in college. The 2004 Cal-USC game at the Coliseum – won 23-17 by the Trojans thanks to a late defensive stand in the red zone – is one of the great games in USC and Coliseum history. Tedford’s Bears pushed the Trojans to the limit.
We congratulate Jeff Tedford on an incredible career on The Voice of College Football and wish him good health.
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