BERKELEY — Cal has forged a 5-2 start to its football season for the first time in 10 years.

But the Bears’ 21-18 victory over coach Bill Belichick’s struggling North Carolina team on Friday night at Memorial Stadium won’t be the standard they aspire to the rest of the way.

“They’re hard to come by so we will celebrate a victory,” said Cal coach Justin Wilcox, whose team was favored by as many as 10.5 points late in the week. “We have to play much better football moving forward in every phase of the game — that’s obvious.”

Cal went to great lengths to improve its offensive production this season — bringing on board an almost entirely new staff on that side of the ball, led by coordinator Bryan Harsin.

But after averaging 32 points through their first three games, the Bears (5-2, 2-1 AC

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