Bakersfield College put together its finest all-around game of the young season Saturday night, a 60-14 win over Santa Monica College.

BC was 0-2 prior to Saturday and was desperate for a win. Everything clicked on Saturday. The offense was strong — so strong the passing game was an afterthought. Defensively, BC had two interceptions returned for touchdowns and three fumble recoveries after having zero takeaways in the first two games.

As dominant as Saturday's game was, the real gauge on how good BC is will come Saturday night when El Camino comes to town.

El Camino, the state champion two years ago that was knocked out of the playoffs last year by the Renegades, was ranked No. 4 in the state poll last week and was off to a 2-0 start entering Saturday night.

BC coach Jeff Chudy told his players after Saturday's massacre over Santa Monica that El Camino is the best team BC has played this year. That's saying a lot, since BC lost to current No.2-ranked Fresno City College in the season opener.

Santa Monica made so many mistakes it was an easy game for BC. The Gades had to execute, to be sure, and they did. But don't expect El Camino to sleepwalk through the second half of the game and have so many missed tackles like Santa Monica had.

BC had two areas of concern on Saturday: the place-kicking game and too many penalties.

BC had, by my count, seven major penalties (penalties of 10 or 15 yards). Personal fouls, late hits out of bounds, chop blocks — those type of things are the type of mistakes that need to be reduced.

Place-kicker Arturo Villa had a rough night, but it wasn't his fault. Poor blocking and horrendous snaps on extra points marred his effort. Three extra points were missed — at least two because of bad snaps and possibly a third. Two field goal attempts were blocked.

You can bet that will be a focus the upcoming week in practice.

And then we'll see where the Renegades are.