Stanford is not a good football team. The glory days are gone. They had perfect tune-up games. Home favorites off consecutive games in which the combined margin of victory is greater than 85 points is 81-50 for 61.8 percent.

Stanford has a young defense that will have to contend with Heisman Trophy candidate Cody Kessler, a fleet of running backs led by Tre Madden and Justin Davis, and wide receivers like Juju Smith-Schuster. Young units struggle early on the road. It is no shock the Cardinal looked good at home and horrid on the road. That continues