California quarterback Fernando Mendoza gestures after a rushing touchdown during the first half of his NCAA football game against San Diego State in Berkeley, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024.

Dedicated Cal fans will have another way to get to Berkeley’s campus before the crack of dawn on Saturday for a historic day in the athletic program’s history.

BART announced Tuesday that there will be early trains that will get to the Downtown Berkeley station by 5 a.m., which is nearly a full hour before BART service begins on Saturdays. The reason this service will be active over 14 hours before the Golden Bears’ kickoff is because, for the first time in the school’s history, ESPN’s college football pregame show, “College GameDay,”........

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