A few days ahead of Stanford’s season opener against Northwestern, a few members of The Daily Sports Staff — Do-Hyoung Park (DHP), Michael Peterson (MP), Neel Ramachandran (NR), Vihan Lakshman (VL), Sanjay Srinivas (SS) and Ashley Westhem (AW) — provided their predictions on how the Cardinal will fare this season and which other teams will emerge as among the top in the nation.

Predict the games:

Opponent	DHP	MP	NR	VL	SS	AW
@NW	W	W	W	W	W	W
UCF	W	W	W	W	W	W
@USC	W	L	L	L	L	W
@OSU	L	W	W	W	W	W
ARIZ	W	W	L	W	L	L
UCLA	L	L	W	L	L	W
WASH	W	W	W	W	W	W
@WSU	W	W	W	W	W	L
@COLO	W	W	W	W	W	W
ORE	W	W	W	L	W	L
CAL	W	W	W	W	W	W
ND	W	W	L	W	W	W

Predict the Pac-12 Championship:

DHP: Arizona State over Stanford
MP: Arizona State over Stanford
NR: USC over Stanford
VL: Arizona State over Oregon
SS:  USC over Stanford
AW: USC over Oregon

Stanford offensive MVP:

DHP: Austin Hooper
MP: Kevin Hogan
NR: Kevin Hogan
VL: Christian McCaffrey
SS: Kevin Hogan
AW: Christian McCaffrey

Stanford defensive MVP:

DHP: Solomon Thomas
MP: Peter Kalambayi
NR: Blake Martinez
VL: Blake Martinez
SS: Aziz Shittu
AW: Peter Kalambayi

Newcomer of the year:

DHP: Brennan Scarlett
MP: Dalton Schultz
NR: Solomon Thomas
VL: Dalton Schultz
SS: Brennan Scarlett
AW: Isaiah Brandt-Sims

Conference champions:

League	DHP	MP	NR	VL	SS	AW
ACC	Georgia Tech	Clemson	Clemson	Georgia Tech	Louisville	Florida State
Big Ten	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State
Big 12	Baylor	Baylor	TCU	Oklahoma	Baylor	TCU
Pac-12	Arizona State	Arizona State	USC	Arizona State	USC	USC
SEC	Georgia	LSU	LSU	Auburn	Auburn	Georgia

Predict the playoff:

Seed	DHP	MP	NR	VL	SS	AW
1	Georgia Tech	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State
2	Ohio State	Arizona State	LSU	Auburn	Baylor	TCU
3	Georgia	Baylor	TCU	Arizona State	USC	Georgia
4	Arizona State	LSU	USC	Georgia Tech	Auburn	USC