Bobby Okereke

My parents were really, my dad wanted me to go to Ivy League school.

But I told him there was not playing too much serious football in the Ivy Leagues.

Just the combination of academic and athletic excellence.

At the time, you know, they were winning Rose Bowls.

Andrew Luck had played there, Kobe Fleener had a long pedigree of guys in the NFL, so really

drew my interest there.

And obviously, it's one of the top academic institutions in the nation.

I think we traded off.

I mean, I was there for five years.

I think we played them four times, maybe two and two.

Maybe fact check me on that.

Yeah, very big.

Cal is our crosstown rival, probably biggest rival.

When Stanford was at its peak, probably USC, we were going back and forth because USC was winning Pac-12 championships and Reggie Bush was taking them to national titles.

But yeah, Notre Dame we always had a big rival with too.

Yeah, probably best part was my sophomore year.

My incoming class was Christian McCaffrey, Solomon Thomas, both of them first round draft picks.

Solomon number two overall, Christian number eight.

That year we went, I think, 12-2.

We finished number two in the nation, won the Rose Bowl.