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To Los Angeles We Go

#14/14 Stanford Cardinal (1-0 overall • 0-0 Pac-12)
#6/4 USC Trojans (1-0 overall • 0-0 Pac-12)

September 9, 2017 • 5:30 p.m. PT
Los Angeles Coliseum (92,348) • Los Angeles, California

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TelevisionLive national broadcast on FOX with Gus Johnson (play-by-play), Joel Klatt (analyst) and Jenny Taft (sideline).

RadioLive 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.

On the WebGoStanford.com • USCtrojans.com • #GoStanford

Notes

  • 15,381 • As the crow flies, Stanford will have traveled 15,381 miles before kicking off its second game on the season at USC. The trip from Stanford's campus to Sydney's Allianz Stadium, where the Cardinal opened the season against Rice, spanned 14,864 miles. A mere 517 miles separates Stanford Stadium from the Los Angeles Coliseum.
  • 2,085 • Of the 44,073 applicants -- the largest application pool in school history -- for Stanford's class of 2021, only 2,085 were admitted. The admitted students came from all 50 states and 82 countries.
  • 1918 • Stanford does not count the 1918 contest won by the Trojans in its series scores, as it was played as part of an unofficial schedule by the Student Army Training Corps Team.
  • 656 • Stanford's 656 total yards against Rice in the season opener were the seventh-most in program history, and best total since 1999 (672 vs. #18 UCLA).
  • 650 • Stanford's 650 tackles for loss this decade ranks sixth nationally.
  • 625 • There are over 625 registered student organizations at Stanford.
  • 602 • Stanford's true freshmen accounted for 602 snaps during the 2016 season, 10th-fewest nationally. That included offensive guard Nate Herbig, who started the final six games of 2016 (Stanford was 6-0). Four true freshmen -- tight end Colby Parkinson, wide receiver Connor Wedington and offensive tackles Walker Little and Foster Sarell -- received significant playing time in Stanford's opener against Rice.
  • 500 • Stanford has gained over 500 yards of total offense four times in its past five games.
  • 285 • Stanford has scored at least 25 points in each of its past seven games, and outscored opponents, 285-130, over that stretch.
  • 279 • Stanford leads the nation with 279 sacks since 2011.
  • 180 • Junior running back Bryce Love ranks first among Pac-12 players -- and ninth nationally -- with 180 yards rushing.
  • 177 • Stanford has made 177 consecutive extra-point attempts, the third-longest streak in the nation (Michigan - 287, Memphis - 213). The streak dates to Stanford's matchup at Oregon State on Oct. 26, 2013.
  • 137 • Stanford claimed five national team championships during the past academic year, increasing its overall total to 137, including 113 NCAA titles. Recent NCAA crowns came in men's soccer, women's volleyball, women's swimming and diving, and women's water polo.
  • 135 • Stanford has a streak of scoring in 135 consecutive games, dating to Nov. 11, 2006.
  • 123 • Stanford opened its 123rd season with a nonconference game against Rice.
  • 113 • The Cardinal and UCLA share the NCAA lead with 113 team titles.
  • 99 • Stanford received a graduation success rate of 99 percent from the NCAA for the third consecutive year in 2016, a total that paced all FBS institutions and ranked 11 points higher than the next Pac-12 school (UCLA - 88 percent).
  • 97 • Nearly 97 percent of Stanford undergraduates live on campus, and there are an estimated 13,000 bikes at Stanford daily.
  • 96 • The 2017 meeting will be the 96th all-time between Stanford and USC. In a series that dates to 1905, the Trojans lead, 60-32-3.
  • 96 • Stanford's 8,180-acre campus is large enough to contain 96 Disneylands.
  • 87 • The Cardinal has at least one tackle for loss in each of its past 87 contests, and at least one sack in 69 of its past 75.
  • 77 • Stanford's 77 wins this decade are the most of any private school, ahead of TCU (65), Baylor (64), USC (63) and Notre Dame (60).
  • 75 • Stanford's 75 wins against FBS opponents this decade ranks second nationally. Only Alabama (80) has more.
  • 65 • Head coach David Shaw has 65 career wins, six shy of matching the school record set by Glenn "Pop" Warner (71 from 1924-32).
  • 59 • Stanford has rushed for at least 100 yards in 59 of its past 65 games. Stanford has not recorded fewer than 100 yards rushing in a victory since the second game of 2012 (92 yards vs. Duke).
  • 56 • Stanford has recorded at least one rushing touchdown 56 times in its past 63 games. Stanford has won each of its past 13 games -- and 24 of its past 25 -- when recording at least one rushing touchdown.
  • 55 • The 55-point margin of victory in Stanford's 62-7 season-opening win over Rice was the second-largest since 1949, and largest since a 58-0 win against Washington State in 2008.
  • 49 • Stanford's 62 points scored against Rice were the most in an opener in 49 years (62-20 win over San Jose State in 1968) and the most in any game since 2013 (63-13 win over Cal).
  • 41 • Stanford, which sponsors 36 varsity sports, has won at least one NCAA team title in each of the past 41 academic years, representing the longest streak in history.
  • 41 • Kevin M. Hogan Quarterbacks Coach Tavita Pritchard engineered one of the biggest upsets in college football history on Oct. 6, 2007, against #2 USC in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Making his first career start, Pritchard threw a 10-yard touchdown pass on fourth down to wide receiver Mark Bradford with 49 seconds remaining to lift the Cardinal to a 24-23 victory. The Trojans were favored by 41 points.
  • 40 • Stanford has scored at least 40 points in four of its past five games.
  • 38 • Stanford has held opponents to fewer than 400 yards of total offense in 38 of its past 49 games.
  • 38 • Stanford's 38 first-half points in its opener against Rice tied for the most in a half over the past four seasons.
  • 35 • During the 2016 season, 35 former Cardinal received an NFL paycheck.
  • 35 • Stanford had never scored more than 35 points in its first 86 meetings with USC, but eclipsed the 35-point mark in 2009 (55), 2010 (37), 2011 (56), and twice in 2015 (41, 41).
  • 33 • Stanford has produced 33 NFL draft picks since 2010, 12th-most by any program over that span.
  • 30 • The Stanford Concussion and Brain Performance Center is at the forefront of concussion and traumatic brain injury research, and is incorporating state of the art eye-tracking tests -- EYE-SYNC -- in all of its studies. The EYE-SYNC test is administered with customized eye tracking technology, called Dynamic Visual Synchronization (DVS) Goggles. The eye tracking test lasts 30 seconds, and the results show the ability to focus -- a key problem after a concussion.
  • 30 • Stanford, which operates on the academic quarter calendar, will have 30 days between its season opener (Aug. 26) and the first day of classes (Sept. 25).
  • 30 • Stanford's 2017 roster includes student-athletes from 30 states, and Austria.
  • 30 • No Pac-12 Conference team has had more NFL draftees over the past five years than Stanford's 30.
  • 30 • Stanford has allowed fewer than 30 points 55 times in its past 61 games.
  • 28 • The Cardinal has won the time-of-possession battle in 28 of its past 34 games.
  • 26 • Stanford returned 26 players who started at least one game in 2016.
    • Offense (13) -- quarterbacks Ryan Burns (7) and Keller Chryst (6); running back Bryce Love (2); fullback Daniel Marx (1); wide receivers JJ Arcega-Whiteside (2) and Trent Irwin (13); tight end Dalton Schultz (12); linemen Casey Tucker (7), A.T. Hall (13), Jesse Burkett (13), David Bright (10), Nate Herbig (6) and Brandon Fanaika (5).
    • Defense (13) -- tackle Harrison Phillips (12); end Dylan Jackson (4); outside linebackers Joey Alfieri (13) and Peter Kalambayi (13); inside linebackers Bobby Okereke (13) and Kevin Palma (13); cornerbacks Quenton Meeks (11), Alameen Murphy (9), Alijah Holder (4), Terrence Alexander (1) and Frank Buncom (1); safeties Justin Reid (10) and Ben Edwards (3).
  • 25 • Stanford is one of 10 teams to have allowed fewer than 25 points/game for four straight seasons.
  • 23 • Stanford won the 2016-17 Division I Learfield Sports Directors' Cup, extending its streak to 23 years of capturing the award presented to the most successful intercollegiate athletic department in the nation.
  • 22.4 • As of 2016, Stanford's endowment eclipsed $22.4 billion.
  • 22 • Stanford requires students to declare a major before their junior year. Among the team's upperclassmen, 22 majors are represented. Majors are: civil engineering, communication, computer science, economics, history, human biology, international relations, Japanese, mechanical engineering, media studies, management science and engineering, philosophy, political science, product design, psychology, public policy, sociology, sustainable design and construction, symbolic systems, urban studies, and science, technology and society.
  • 19 • The Stanford community includes 19 Nobel laureates.
  • 18.07 • Senior quarterback Keller Chryst ranks first among Pac-12 players with 18.07 yards/completion.
  • 16 • Stanford's defense has at least one takeaway in 16 of the past 20 games (11 forced fumbles, 15 interceptions).
  • 13.85 • Junior running back Bryce Love ranks first among Pac-12 players -- and third nationally -- with 13.85 yards/carry.
  • 9 • Coaching continuity remains a hallmark of the program. Nine of 10 full-time coaches returned for 2017, the only change coming at running back, where Ron Gould replaced Lance Taylor, who became the Carolina Panthers' wide receivers coach.
  • 9 • Stanford has won seven of its past nine contests against USC, the best nine-game stretch for the Cardinal in series history.
  • 8 • Seven of the past 11 meetings between Stanford and USC have been decided by eight points or less.
  • 8 • Stanford has won at least eight games for a school-record eight straight years.
  • 8 • Stanford advanced to a school-record eighth straight bowl game in 2016, a streak that leads the Pac-12.
  • 7.22 • Running back Bryce Love is Stanford's career leader with 7.22 yards/rush. Love had 13.8 yards/carry in the opener against Rice.
  • 7 • Stanford has allowed 200 or more rushing yards only seven times in its past 53 outings (2013 at Army, 2014 at Oregon, 2015 at Northwestern, 2015 vs. Oregon, 2015 vs. Notre Dame, 2016 at Washington, 2016 vs. Colorado and 2016 at Oregon).
  • 7 • Stanford has won seven straight games against FBS opponents, the nation's fifth-longest streak behind Oklahoma (11), USC (10), Western Kentucky (9) and Coastal Carolina (8).
  • 7-0 • Quarterback Keller Chryst is 7-0 as a starter. Former Cardinal Kevin Hogan, the program's record holder with 36 career wins, started his tenure as starting quarterback with 10 straight wins.
  • 6 • At least six foreign languages are spoken by the Cardinal -- French (Sean Barton and Peter Kalambayi), Samoan (Gabe Reid), Japanese (Jesse Burkett), German (Devery Hamilton and Osiris St. Brown) and Austrian German (Thomas Schaffer). Multiple student-athletes are fluent in Spanish.
  • 6 • Stanford and Alabama lead the nation as the only programs with six seasons of 10 or more wins against FBS opponents since 2010.
  • 6 • Stanford is one of six programs with at least one national championships in football, baseball and men's basketball. It is the only program with at least one national championship in football, baseball, men's basketball and women's basketball.
  • 6 • Tight end Colby Parkinson is one of six true freshmen nationally with at least two touchdowns on the season.
  • 5 • Stanford has not turned the ball over in a school-record five straight games.
  • 5 • Stanford (Asia, Australia and North America) is one of five programs to play a college football game on three different continents, joining Boston College, BYU, Cal and Notre Dame.
  • 3 • Since the start of the 2012 season, Stanford is one six FBS programs with at least three conference titles.
  • 3 • Stanford signed three of the nation's top-10 recruits in the 2017 class. The Cardinal had corralled two such signees in the combined 15 previous years. Stanford is the first school in the modern era of college football recruiting services to sign the No. 1 quarterback, No. 1 offensive tackle and No. 1 tight end in the same class, earning the trifecta from both Scout and 247Sports.
  • 3 • Three Stanford quarterbacks accounted for at least one touchdown in Stanford's season-opening win over Rice, a program-first since 1998 against Washington State. Senior Keller Chryst threw for three scores, fifth-year senior Ryan Burns threw for one score, and sophomore K.J. Costello ran for a 25-yard score.
  • 3 • Stanford's 27-10 win against USC in 2106 was its third within a calendar year over the Trojans.
  • 2.01 • Stanford has 165 rushing touchdowns in David Shaw's 82 games as head coach, an average of 2.01/game.
  • 2 • Former Cardinal John Elway (Denver Broncos) and John Lynch (San Francisco 49ers) are NFL general managers. The other two schools with two NFL general managers? Connecticut and John Carroll.
  • 2 • With two touchdown receptions against Rice, tight end Colby Parkinson became the first Cardinal true freshman with multiple touchdown catches in a season opener.
  • .929 • Stanford is 26-2 (.929) against in-state opponents in this decade.
  • .917 • Stanford is 22-2 (.917) against in-state opponents under head coach David Shaw.
  • .869 • Stanford is 53-8 (.869) this decade in games played on California soil.
  • .833 • Stanford's .833 winning percentage (5-1) against ranked teams since 2015 is fourth nationally.
  • .833 • Stanford is 10-2 (.833) on FOX under head coach David Shaw.
  • .811 • Stanford is 77-18 (.811) in this decade.
  • .810 • Stanford is 17-4 (.810) in September under head coach David Shaw.
  • .800 • Stanford is 8-2 (.800) coming off a bye week under head coach David Shaw.
  • .778 • Head coach David Shaw is 42-12 (.778) against Pac-12 opponents during the regular season.
  • .766 • Stanford is 49-15 (.766) coming off a win under head coach David Shaw.
  • .735 • Stanford is 25-9 (.735) in road games under head coach David Shaw.
  • .667 • Of 46 Power 5 head coaches that have completed at least five seasons, David Shaw's .667 (20-10) career winning percentage against ranked teams is second.