Cal's Top-50 Transfer Athletes Countdown: No. 31 Chris Richards
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Jeff Faraudo
Summary
This article is part of a series ranking the top 50 transfer athletes who joined the University of California, Berkeley (Cal) from four-year colleges. The installment features Chris Richards, a football player who transferred from Oklahoma to Cal in 1985-86. The piece provides context on the transfer portal era in college athletics and explains the ranking criteria, focusing on mid-career arrivals who made significant impacts on the Golden Bears.
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· 4 pulledThe transfer portal era in college athletics seems like it's been with us forever.
Likewise, most fans can recall less turbulent times when transfers happened, they simply didn't look like a stampede to the 1849 California Gold Rush.
We thought it was time to rank the best transfers Cal teams have attracted, most of them in recent seasons but also including a few OGs from yesteryear.
We limited our ranking to transfers from four-year colleges.
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