Taylor had his mouth wired shut in Cal's 1986 upset of Stanford
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00:00 The 1988 game that Troy Taylor talks about in the story here was certainly an interesting
00:06 game.
00:07 Cal seemed to have that thing wrapped up.
00:09 Taylor threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Mike Ford with about nine minutes to go to tie
00:16 the game.
00:17 And then there was a Cal interception and Taylor drove him down the field again to get
00:21 in position for a field goal and it got blocked.
00:24 So it was a tie game.
00:26 So he didn't win any games.
00:28 The other interesting game, one which he didn't play, was the 1986 big game, considered perhaps
00:34 the biggest upset of all time in the big game.
00:38 Cal was a 21-point underdog, partly because they were 1-9 and Stanford was 7-2, but also
00:44 because their starting quarterback for the past several games, Troy Taylor, had suffered
00:50 a broken jaw.
00:51 His jaw was broken in two places in a game against USC the previous week, so he didn't
00:56 play.
00:57 The chances of Cal winning that game were even longer.
01:01 Kevin Brown made his first start of the season in what was his final Cal game.
01:07 Cal won that game with Troy Taylor on the sidelines with his mouth wired shut.
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