{"id":76879,"date":"2024-11-30T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T19:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/fernando-mendoza-update-surprising-decision-made-on-cal-qb-status-vs-smu\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T19:36:33","slug":"fernando-mendoza-update-surprising-decision-made-on-cal-qb-status-vs-smu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/fernando-mendoza-update-surprising-decision-made-on-cal-qb-status-vs-smu\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza update: Surprising decision made on Cal QB status vs. SMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/california-golden-bears\/\"><strong>Cal<\/strong><\/a> QB <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/fernando-mendoza-43783\/\">Fernando Mendoza<\/a><\/strong> won\u2019t play Saturday against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/smu-mustangs\/\"><strong>SMU<\/strong><\/a> in the regular season finale due to illness, according to ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSources: Cal starting quarterback Fernando Mendoza will not play at No. 9 SMU today due to an illness,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/petethamel\/status\/1862942208153751898?s=46&amp;t=7NFObZL92O1p15K8u_xeGw\">Thamel wrote on Twitter.<\/a> \u201cBack-up <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/chandler-rogers-19936\/\">Chandler Rogers<\/a><\/strong> will get the start for the Bears. Mendoza has thrown for 3,004 yards for Cal this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-my-plugin-prizepicks-ad-block\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prizepicks.onelink.me\/ivHR\/ON3\"><strong><em>CLICK HERE to go to PrizePicks and use code ON3 to receive a guaranteed $50 once you play $5 in lineups!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Coming into the game, Mendoza had 3,004 yards, 16 touchdowns, six interceptions and a 68.7% completion percentage. He also had 105 yards and two touchdowns on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers is in his first season with Cal, having previously played for Louisiana-Monroe and North Texas over the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>In his career, Rogers has 7,129 yards, 53 touchdowns, 15 interceptions and a 63.9% completion percentage.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story will be updated<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/california-golden-bears\/news\/fernando-mendoza-update-surprising-decision-made-on-cal-qb-status-vs-smu\/\">Fernando Mendoza update: Surprising decision made on Cal QB status vs. SMU<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cal QB Fernando Mendoza won\u2019t play Saturday against SMU in the regular season finale due&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}