Stanford Cardinal (8-1 • 7-0 Pac-12)
Oregon Ducks (6-3 • 4-2 Pac-12)
November 14, 2015 • 4:30 p.m. PT
Stanford Stadium (50,464) • Stanford, Calif.
Television • Live national broadcast on FOX with Gus Johnson (play-by-play), Joel Klatt (analyst) and Molly McGrath (sideline).
Radio • Live coverage on Stanford’s flagship station -- KNBR 1050 AM -- with Scott Reiss ’93 (play-by-play), Todd Husak ’00 (analyst) and John Platz ’84 (sideline). The broadcast begins one hour before kickoff with the Cardinal Tailgate Show and concludes with the postgame Cardinal Locker Room Report. The game can be heard on Stanford student radio -- KZSU 90.1 FM -- and online at kzsulive.stanford.edu. Compass Media Networks, Sirius Satellite Radio (channel 137) and XM Satellite Radio (channel 197) will carry a national broadcast.
Polls • Stanford (7th - AP, 7th - USA Today) • Oregon (NR - AP, RV - USA Today)
Live Stats • Live in-game statistics available at GoStanford.com
On the Web • GoStanford.com • GoDucks.com • Pac-12.com • #GoStanford
• Winners of eight straight, the seventh-ranked Cardinal starts its regular season-closing three-game homestand Saturday when it welcomes Oregon to Stanford Stadium.
• Since 2010, the winner of the regular-season matchup between Stanford and Oregon has also claimed the conference title.
• The lone unbeaten team in Pac-12 play, Stanford is 7-0 against conference competition for the first time since 2011.
• The Cardinal enters the matchup ranked seventh by the AP and USA Today. Of Stanford’s 86 all-time AP top-10 rankings, 48 have been earned since 2010.
• Stanford is the only school ranked in the top 10 by the Associated Press (7th), USA Today (7th) and U.S. News & World Report (4th). The Cardinal’s No. 7 ranking by the AP is its highest since 2014’s final regular season poll, when Stanford was fifth heading into that season’s Rose Bowl.
• Under head coach David Shaw, Stanford is 2-2 vs. Oregon, 35-8 in Pac-12 regular-season games, 28-3 at home, 14-4 in November, 36-11 coming off a win, 24-6 when ranked higher than an opponent and 9-1 on FOX.
• Stanford has compiled a 62-14 record since 2010. Its’ 62 wins are the seventh-most by any college program over that stretch.
• Since 2010, Stanford is 43-5 in games in California (5-0 in 2015, 7-2 in 2014, 7-2 in 2013, 10-0 in 2012, 7-1 in 2011, 7-0 in 2010).
• Stanford’s three home losses since 2010 are tied for second-fewest nationally (Boise State - 2).
• The Cardinal leads the Pac-12 in a number of statistical categories, including: third-down conversion percentage (.467), third-down conversion percentage defense (.351), fourth-down conversion percentage (.900), first-down defense (159), fumbles lost (3), passing yards/completion (13.80), tackles for loss allowed (4.78), time of possession (35:16), total defense (338.7) and winning percentage (.889).
• Sophomore RB Christian McCaffrey continues to lead the FBS with 241.56 all-purpose yards/game, more than 25 yards over second-place Tyler Ervin of San Jose State (216). Since 1978, only four other Pac-12 players have averaged 200 or more all-purpose yards/game for an entire season -- USC’s Marcus Allen in 1981 (232.6), Stanford’s Glyn Milburn in 1990 (202.0), USC’s Reggie Bush in 2005 (222.3) and USC’s Marqise Lee in 2012 (206.4). Coincidentally, Milburn’s teammate in 1990 was Ed McCaffrey (Christian’s father), who had 61 receptions for 917 yards and a conference-leading 91.7 receiving yards/game that season.
• Stanford requires students to declare a major before their junior year. Among the team’s upperclassmen, 16 majors are represented. Eleven Cardinal are engineering majors. Majors with three or more Cardinal student-athletes: communication, economics, human biology, management science and engineering, psychology, public policy, and science, technology and society.
• Situated in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford’s student-athletes are afforded the opportunity to experience the latest in cutting-edge technology, as the origins of some of the greatest hi-tech breakthroughs and most dynamic companies can trace their roots back to The Farm:
• STRIVR Labs co-founder and former Cardinal kicker Derek Belch has created a truly immersive, fully customizable virtual reality experience specifically for football teams. The platform has already changed the way Stanford’s quarterbacks prepare, and high school, college, and NFL teams are close behind.
• With the help of the Cardinal football team, a group of Stanford doctors and neuroscientists have been working to quantify the head trauma that players sustain during a game. The researchers developed custom mouth guards equipped with accelerometers and gyrometers that measure linear and rotational acceleration -- essentially, how violently the head gets whipped around during a game. The data from the sensors, which the scientists pull from the mouth guards after games and practices throughout the season, provides critical baseline data of how many jarring hits players typically experience.
• Temperature-regulation research of Stanford biologists H. Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn led to a device that rapidly cools body temperature and greatly improves exercise recovery. This is the sort of claim you see in spam email subject lines, not in discussions of mammalian thermoregulation. By taking advantage of specialized heat-transfer veins in the palms of hands, “the glove” can rapidly cool athletes’ core temperatures -- and dramatically improve exercise recovery and performance.
• In 2012, Stanford became the first college program to use iPad playbooks, saving countless trees, dollars and man-hours.