BERKELEY, Calif. -- With a winless record so far this season, California football coach Tom Holmoe announced Sunday he will resign at the end of the season.

The Golden Bears (0-8, 0-6 in the Pacific-10 Conference) have lost 11 straight dating to last season, the longest losing streak in Cal's 119-year program.

"It's with deep regret that I arrived at this decision," Holmoe said in a statement. "We had great dreams when we took over the reins here five years ago, and it's unfortunate that many of those dreams were not realized."

Holmoe, a former cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers and defensive backfield coach for the team under George Seifert from 1994-95, has a 15-37 overall record in five years as head coach at Cal.

California has not had a winning season since 1993.

"We certainly share in his great disappointment, and wish Tom and his family well in any future direction," athletic director Steve Gladstone said.

Holmoe said he will remain with the Bears for the final three games of the season, starting with Saturday's home game against Southern California.

The remaining schedule includes the annual "Big Game" against Stanford and the season finale at Rutgers, originally scheduled for the weekend following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Holmoe has not won a Big Game in four tries.

Rumors have swirled since last season about Holmoe's job stability. He was given a vote of confidence from then-athletic director John Kasser. But Kasser resigned in the offseason and Gladstone, his replacement, has made no secret of his disappointment with the football program.

The players have repeatedly said this season that they supported Holmoe.

"I try not to listen to it (the criticism), because if you start thinking about it, you start questioning yourself, you start questioning what's going on," linebacker Matt Nixon said a couple of weeks ago.

"We're a young team -- and all a young team can do is get better," freshman tailback Terrell Williams said.

Cal is one of just five winless Division I-A teams this season, joining Duke, Houston, Idaho and Navy. The Bears, coming off a 38-24 loss to Arizona, have not gone a whole season without a win since 1897.

The Bears have struggled this season with starting quarterback Kyle Boller's back injury, which has kept him out of two games. They lost tailback Joe Igber, their leading rusher, for the season with a broken collarbone.

Holmoe, a fourth-round draft pick out of Brigham Young in 1983, won three Super Bowl Rings in a seven-year pro career with the 49ers.

He returned to BYU as a graduate assistant coach under LaVell Edwards in 1990-91, before reuniting with former 49ers coach Bill Walsh as the secondary coach at Stanford.

After his two-season stint with the 49ers, Holmoe joined the Bears staff as defensive coordinator, taking over as head coach the next year when coach Steve Mariucci became head coach of the 49ers.