California football fans will get to experience a rare sight — a freshman starting quarterback — when the Golden Bears make their 2025 home debut against Texas Southern in a nonconference game Saturday afternoon in Berkeley, Calif.

Making the first season-opening start for a Cal freshman quarterback since Jared Goff in 2013, Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele passed for 234 yards and three touchdowns when Cal opened its campaign with a 34-15 win at Oregon State on Aug. 30.

The left-handed star out of Campbell High School originally signed with Oregon but entered the portal and transferred to Cal, the original team he committed to. Sagapolutele went 20-for-30 passing in what some services labeled the most impressive start of any freshman quarterback in the country on opening day. That’s lofty prais

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