Stanford Cardinal (11-2 • 8-1 Pac-12)
Iowa Hawkeyes (12-1 • 8-0)
January 1, 2016 • 1:30 p.m. PT
Rose Bowl (92,542) • Pasadena, Calif.
Television • Live national broadcast on ESPN with Brent Musburger (play-by-play), Jesse Palmer (analyst) and Maria Taylor (sideline).
Radio • Live coverage on Stanford’s flagship station -- KNBR 680 AM -- with Scott Reiss ’93 (play-by-play), Todd Husak ’00 (analyst) and Troy Clardy ’97 (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. Sirius Satellite Radio (channel 80) and XM Satellite Radio (channel 80) will carry a national broadcast.
Polls • Stanford (5th - AP, 6th - USA Today) • Iowa (6th - AP, 7th - USA Today)
Live Stats • Live in-game statistics available at GoStanford.com
On the Web • GoStanford.com • HawkeyeSports.com • Pac-12.com • BigTen.org • #GoStanford
• Stanford returns to the Rose Bowl Game for the third time in the past four seasons and 15th -- third-most all-time -- in program history. The last time the Cardinal accomplished that feat was a string of three consecutive appearances from 1934-36. Most recently, the Cardinal won the 2012 edition of the contest over Wisconsin, and fell to Michigan State in 2013.
• Stanford will take on Iowa in the Rose Bowl Game, the first-ever meeting between the programs and the fourth straight season the Cardinal will meet a Big Ten Conference opponent in a bowl game. Stanford is 23-29-5 all-time against Big Ten programs.
• The Cardinal is making its school-record seventh straight bowl appearance, the Pac-12 Conference’s second-longest active streak behind Oregon (11).
• The bowl appearance is the 27th all-time for the Cardinal, which is 12-13-1 in bowl games.
• Stanford (2013 Rose Bowl Game, 2014 Rose Bowl Game, 2014 Foster Farms Bowl, 2016 Rose Bowl Game) is the nation’s only team with an active streak of playing at least four straight bowl games in its home state.
• Since 2010, Stanford is 46-6 in games played in California (8-1 in 2015, 7-2 in 2014, 7-2 in 2013, 10-0 in 2012, 7-1 in 2011, 7-0 in 2010). Two of those losses came at the hands of USC (2013, 2014).
• Stanford has won at least 10 games four times in five seasons under head coach David Shaw. From 1891-2010, the program recorded four 10-win seasons.
• Under head coach David Shaw, Stanford is 1-1 in the Rose Bowl Game, 0-0 vs. Iowa, 2-2 vs. Big Ten opponents, 1-2 in January, 40-13 coming off a win, 19-9 vs. AP Top 25, 5-0 on Friday, 3-2 on neutral sites and 17-4 on ESPN.
• The Cardinal leads the Pac-12 in a number of statistical categories, including: third-down conversion percentage (.512), fourth-down conversion percentage (.857), fumbles lost (5), tackles for loss allowed (4.46), team passing efficiency (170.51), time of possession (35:23) and winning percentage (.846).
• Stanford’s football program received an NCAA GSR of 99 percent for the second consecutive year, a total that leads all FBS and FCS institutions.
• 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.