This was a tough season for Stanford football fans. Like many, I often found myself at a loss for words in the past four months. Stanford’s 8-5 record wasn’t shocking, but the way the team played in those five losses, and even in some of the wins, certainly was. We criticized the offensive line for…
If you’re focused on next season, there is only one aching question that should be festering in your mind through spring ball and the dog days of summer: If Kevin Hogan returns for his fifth year, should he be the starting quarterback for Stanford?
Stanford has made a habit of limping into Big Games the past three years. In 2011, the Cardinal begrudgingly got back on the field for Cal a week after losing to Oregon in one of the biggest games in college football that year. A season later, Big Game took place following Stanford’s controversial 20-17 overtime…
Make no mistake, Saturday is the most important day of the Cardinal’s 2014 season. For the first time this decade, “Beat Cal” carries meaning and Big Game is actually a big game.
A season remains to be salvaged, as Stanford’s bowl hopes are teetering precariously. Plagued by sloppy offensive execution that has come to define the 2014 Cardinal team, Stanford (5-5, 3-4 Pac-12) fell to No. 23 Utah (7-3, 4-3) 20-17 in double overtime on Senior Day. The loss marked the first time in the David Shaw era…
Midway through November, Stanford is still fighting for bowl eligibility. It may be hard to believe, but that’s the position the Cardinal have put themselves in for the first time in six years after wasting opportunities against USC and Notre Dame and getting blown out by Arizona State and Oregon. The Cardinal need to win…
On Saturday night, Oregon breezed though its Stanford problem set, made a solution key and then posted it for everyone in college football to see. All in a matter of minutes.
Was there any doubt that annihilation was inevitable?
Something doesn’t feel right in college football right now. For the first time in four years, Stanford and Oregon will square off against each other in a game where both teams aren’t ranked in the top 14. For the first time in four years, Stanford-Oregon isn’t the epicenter of the college football world. For the…
