Pac-12 North Play Begins

No. 23/25 Stanford Cardinal (4-2 overall, 3-1 Pac-12)
Oregon Ducks (4-2 overall, 1-2 Pac-12)

October 14, 2017 • 8 p.m. PT
Stanford Stadium (50,424) • Stanford, California

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TelevisionLive national broadcast on FS1 with Tim Brando (play-by-play), Spencer Tillman (analyst) and Holly Sonders (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.

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Notes

• 17,564 • As the crow flies, Stanford will have traveled 17,564 miles before kicking off against Oregon on Oct. 14. The trip from Stanford's campus to Sydney's Allianz Stadium, where the Cardinal opened the season against Rice (Aug. 26), spanned 14,866 miles. A mere 642 round-trip miles separated Stanford Stadium from the Los Angeles Coliseum (at USC on Sept. 9), 858 from San Diego Stadium (at San Diego State on Sept. 16) and 1,198 from Rice-Eccles Stadium (at Utah on Oct. 7).
• 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.
• 2016 • Keller Chryst threw for 258 yards and three touchdowns in Stanford's 52-27 victory over Oregon. Christian McCaffrey ran for 135 yards and three touchdowns. McCaffrey also caught five passes for 52 yards, and Oregon native Joey Alfieri picked off two passes.
• 2015 • When it came down to it, two botched snaps and a failed two-point conversion spoiled the Cardinal's playoff hopes as Oregon received a late two-point stop to beat Stanford, 38-36. In a game dominated by offenses that combined for more than 900 yards, it was a defensive stop on the two-point attempt with 10 seconds left that sealed the win for Oregon. Hogan threw for 304 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score. Christian McCaffrey set a Stanford record with his eighth straight 100-yard rushing game, running for 147 yards and a touchdown.
• 2013 • Stanford jumped out to a 26-0 lead behind the efforts of Tyler Gaffney who compiled 157 yards rushing and one touchdown on a school-record 45 carries. Kevin Hogan added 57 yards and a touchdown of his own on the ground, while, perhaps most notably, keeping the ball on a bootleg on third-and-long and eluding the grasp of three defenders for a 12-yard first-down run. The Ducks saved all their scoring for late in the fourth quarter, tallying three touchdowns in eight minutes when quarterback Marcus Mariota threw two touchdown passes and linebacker Rodney Hardrick took Stanford's blocked field goal attempt to the house. Jeff Trojan recovered Oregon's third onside kick of the quarter, allowing the Cardinal to run out the clock and earn the 26-20 win over second-ranked Oregon.
• 2012 • Jordan Williamson hit a 37-yard field goal in overtime as Stanford upset No. 1 Oregon, 17-14, denying the Ducks a chance to clinch the Pac-12 North and derailing their straight shot at the BCS title game. The loss snapped a 13-game winning streak for the Ducks, the longest in the nation. Kevin Hogan threw for 211 yards and a game-tying fourth-quarter touchdown for Stanford, while Stepfan Taylor rushed for 161 yards on 33 carries. Down 14-7, Hogan hit Zach Ertz with a 10-yard scoring pass to tie it at 14 with 1:35 to go. Ertz fought to gain control of the ball with a defender as he fell to the turf on top of a Ducks player. The play was initially ruled incomplete, but a video review overturned it for the game-tying touchdown.
• 2011 • Andrew Luck threw three touchdowns but was intercepted twice and lost a fumble in a 53-30 loss to sixth-ranked Oregon at Stanford Stadium, ending third-ranked Stanford's nation-best 17-game winning streak.
• 2010 • No. 4 Oregon overcome a 31-24 halftime deficit and blanked the ninth-ranked Cardinal in the second half while posting a 52-31 win in Eugene. It was the first time Oregon and Stanford faced each other as ranked teams. The game lived up to the hype as a battle of offenses as Oregon, averaging 560 yards of total offense going into the game, had 626 yards compared to the Cardinal's 518.
• 2009 • Toby Gerhart broke Stanford's single-game rushing record by running for 223 yards as the Cardinal upset No. 7 Oregon, 51-42, at Stanford Stadium. The two teams combined for 1,075 yards of total offense.
• 2001 • Kerry Carter tied a school record by rushing for four scores as the Cardinal rallied from two touchdowns down in the second half to stun the fifth-ranked Ducks in Eugene, 49-42. It was Oregon's only loss on the season.
• 1996 • In the first overtime game in Stanford history, the Cardinal pulled out a 27-24 victory as Kevin Miller kicked a 27-yard field goal to give Stanford its first conference win on the season.
• 1993 • Steve Stenstrom threw for 407 yards and three touchdowns in Stanford's 38-34 victory over the Ducks at Autzen Stadium. The numbers brought Stenstrom's single-season passing yardage to 3,281, breaking the Pac-10 and school record of 3,242 set by John Elway in 1982.
• 1992 • Head coach Bill Walsh made his Stanford Stadium debut in his second stint as Stanford's head coach as the Cardinal posted a 21-7 victory over the Ducks.
• 1989 • Stanford scored 18 points in the final period, capped off by a game-winning, 37-yard field goal by John Hopkins as time expired to give the Cardinal an 18-17 victory.
• 1981 • Darrin Nelson broke Tony Dorsett's NCAA career record for all-purpose yardage in a 42-3 victory over the Ducks at Stanford Stadium. Nelson would finish his brilliant career with 7,120 all-purpose yards, a mark that still ranks first on the school's all-time career charts.
• 1980 • After missing the entire 1979 season with a hamstring injury, Darrin Nelson returned for action for the first time in 21 months and rushed for 122 yards in Stanford's 35-25 victory over the Ducks. The game also marked the head coaching debut of Paul Wiggin.
• 1900 • In a series that dates to 1900, Stanford leads Oregon, 46-32-1.
• 1,200 • Junior running back Bryce Love (1,240) is one of five Cardinal ever with over 1,200 yards rushing in a season (Toby Gerhart, Stepfan Taylor, Tyler Gaffney and Christian McCaffrey.
• 1,088 • Through the season's first five games, junior running back Bryce Love's 1,088 rushing yards were the fourth-most by any player in FBS history -- Garrett Wolfe (1,181 in 2006), Marcus Allen (1,136 in 1981), Byron Hanspard (1,112 in 1996).
• 787 • Through the season's first four games, junior running back Bryce Love had 787 yards rushing. In the past 20 years, only LSU's Leonard Fournette (864) and Northern Illinois' Garrett Wolfe (828) had more.
• 673 • Stanford's 673 tackles for loss this decade ranks sixth nationally.
• 659 • Junior running back Bryce Love's 12 longest runs in 2017 total 659 yards. Only 13 players nationally -- including Love -- have more than 659 yards rushing on the season.
• 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. No. 18 UCLA).
• 625 • There are more than 625 registered student organizations at Stanford.
• 564 • Junior running back Bryce Love gained 564 yards rushing in consecutive wins over UCLA (Sept. 23) and Arizona State (Sept. 30), third-most over a two-game stretch in Pac-12 history.
• 500 • Stanford has gained more than 500 yards of total offense six times in its past 10 games.
• 405 • Stanford's 405 rushing yards against UCLA (Sept. 23) were the fourth-most in program history. Stanford was the first team to rush for over 400 yards against UCLA since USC did so in 2005. Junior running back Bryce Love had 263 against UCLA in 2017, and USC running back Reggie Bush had 260 in 2005.
• 400 • Stanford has held opponents to fewer than 400 yards of total offense in 40 of its past 54 games.
• 309.7 • Stanford has averaged 309.7 rushing yards/game with 10 rushing touchdowns during its three-game winning streak.
• 301 • Junior running back Bryce Love's 301 yards rushing against Arizona State (Sept. 30) were the most by any Cardinal, eclipsing Christian McCaffrey's school-record 284 at Cal in 2016. Love broke 12 tackles and notched 175 yards after contact against the Sun Devils.
• 272 • Stanford leads the nation with 272 sacks since 2011.
• 250 • Junior running back Bryce Love and USC's Reggie Bush are the only Pac-12 players ever with 250 or more rushing yards in consecutive games.
• 209.8 • Junior running back Bryce Love ranks first among Pac-12 players -- and third nationally -- with 209.8 all-purpose yards/game. Junior running back Cameron Scarlett (104.2) is 11th among Pac-12 players.
• 206.7 • Junior running back Bryce Love ranks first nationally with 206.7 rushing yards/game. Oklahoma State's Barry Sanders (238.9), USC's Marcus Allen (212.9), Cornell's Ed Marinaro (209.0) and Iowa State's Troy Davis (198.6) are the NCAA leaders for single-season rushing yards/game. Sanders had 1,156 yards rushing through his first six games of 1988; Love has 1,240 through the first six games of 2017.
• 200 • Stanford has allowed 200 or more rushing yards only 13 times under head coach David Shaw.
• 199 • Before a second-quarter interception at San Diego State (Sept. 16), Stanford had 199 consecutive pass attempts without an interception. Senior quarterback Keller Chryst had 170 straight attempts without a pick.
• 195 • Stanford has made 195 consecutive extra-point attempts, the third-longest streak in the nation (Michigan - 298, Texas A&M - 224). The streak dates to Stanford's matchup at Oregon State on Oct. 26, 2013.
• 140 • Stanford has scored in 140 consecutive games, dating to Nov. 11, 2006.
• 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.
• 134 • Stanford held USC (Sept. 9) without a single punt or kickoff return yard, a first for the Cardinal special teams units in 134 games, dating to the 2006 regular season finale against Cal. Stanford special teams coordinator Pete Alamar was the Golden Bears' special teams coordinator for that 2006 affair.
• 123 • Stanford opened its 123rd season with a nonconference game against Rice on Aug. 26 in Sydney, Australia.
• 113 • The Cardinal and UCLA share the NCAA lead with 113 team titles.
• 100 • Stanford has rushed for at least 100 yards in 64 of its past 70 games. Stanford has not recorded fewer than 100 yards rushing in a victory since the second game of 2012 (92 yards vs. Duke).
• 100 • Stanford has had an individual 100-yard rusher in 25 of its past 31 games. It did not have a 100-yard rusher in the 15 games prior.
• 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).
• 98 • The all-time series with Oregon has been decided by 98 points with Stanford outscoring the Ducks, 1,768-1,670.
• 97 • Nearly 97 percent of Stanford undergraduates live on campus, and there are an estimated 13,000 bikes at Stanford daily.
• 96 • Stanford's 8,180-acre campus is large enough to contain 96 Disneylands.
• 87 • Junior running back Bryce Love is the fastest Stanford running back to gain 1,000 yards rushing in a season (fifth game, 87 carries). Previous Stanford record holder Christian McCaffrey gained his 1,000th rushing yard in the eighth game of 2015 (163rd carry).
• 80 • Stanford's 80 wins this decade are the most of any private school, ahead of TCU (69), USC (67), Baylor (64), Navy (64) and Notre Dame (64).
• 78 • Stanford's 78 wins against FBS opponents this decade ranks second nationally. Only Alabama (85) has more.
• 68 • Head coach David Shaw has 68 career wins, three shy of matching the school record set by Glenn "Pop" Warner (71 from 1924-32).
• 61 • Stanford has recorded at least one rushing touchdown 61 times in its past 68 games. Stanford has won 27 of its past 30 games when recording at least one rushing touchdown.
• 60 • Stanford ranks second nationally with six plays from scrimmage covering 60 or more yards.
• 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.
• 52.4 • Junior running back Bryce Love is averaging 51.4 yards/scoring play (93-yard catch, 47-yard run, 48-yard run, 7-yard run, 56-yard run, 50-yard run, 49-yard catch, 10-yard run, 75-yard run, 51-yard run, 53-yard run, 69-yard run, 61-yard run, 43-yard run, 59-yard run, 68-yard run).
• 50 • Stanford leads the nation with 11 plays from scrimmage covering 50 or more yards.
• 50 • Dating to 2016, junior running back Bryce Love has recorded a rush of 50 or more yards in eight straight games, the only player to do so in the past 20 years. Love has eight rushes of 50 or more yards in six games this season. By comparison, Alabama's Mark Ingram had two such rushes in 14 games in 2009, and Derrick Henry had five such rushes in 15 games in 2015 for the Crimson Tide.
• 50 • In six of the past 10 meetings, either Stanford or Oregon has scored at least 50 points.
• 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).
• 47 • Senior defensive tackle Harrison Phillips has a team-high 47 tackles, including four for loss.
• 45 • Stanford's 45 regular-season conference wins are second-most nationally since 2011 behind Alabama (46).
• 44 • Stanford has won 44 consecutive games when leading after three quarters, dating to Oct. 13, 2012 – an overtime loss at Notre Dame.
• 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.
• 40 • Each of junior running back Bryce Love's past eight touchdown runs have covered 40 or more yards.
• 40 • Stanford leads the nation with 16 plays from scrimmage covering 40 or more yards.
• 38 • Stanford's 38 first-half points in its opener against Rice tied for the most in a half over the past four seasons.
• 36.3 • Stanford has averaged 36.3 points/game over the regular season's first half.
• 35 • During the 2016 season, 35 former Cardinal received an NFL paycheck.
• 33 • Stanford has produced 33 NFL draft picks since 2010, 12th-most by any program over that span.
• 33 • Stanford has 33 rushing touchdowns in its past 12 games.
• 32:31 • At 32:31, Stanford's average time of possession per game since 2011 ranks fifth nationally. The average millennial spends over 32 minutes a day on Instagram.
• 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'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 58 times in its past 65 games.
• 30 • Stanford leads the nation with 26 plays from scrimmage covering 30 or more yards. Junior running back Bryce Love has 16 runs of 30 or more yards through six games – in the previous two seasons, no player had more than 13 such runs.
• 28 • Stanford had 28 former players make NFL opening day rosters, third-most of any Pac-12 team.
• 27 • If junior running back Bryce Love was his own team, his 1,240 rushing yards would rank 27th of 129 FBS programs.
• 25 • Stanford is one of 10 teams to have allowed fewer than 25 points/game for four straight seasons.
• 25 • Stanford's 25 fifth- and fourth-year seniors are the most of any Pac-12 program.
• 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.
• 20 • Junior wide receiver Trent Irwin has at least one reception in each of the past 20 games.
• 20 • Junior running back Bryce Loves leads the FBS with 20 rushes of 20 or more yards.
• 19 • The Stanford community includes 19 Nobel laureates.
• 16 • Senior tight end Dalton Schultz has at least one catch in 16 consecutive games.
• 13 • Stanford has turned the ball over only five times while forcing 12, a turnover margin that ranks 13th nationally.
• 12 • Junior Bryce Love is one of 12 running backs in Stanford history with at least 2,000 career rushing yards (2,249).
• 11 • Senior defensive tackle Harrison Phillips had a career-high 11 tackles at USC (Sept. 16), and 10 tackles one week later at San Diego State (Sept. 23).
• 11 • Junior running back Bryce Love is the 11th running back in FBS history to gain 1,000 yards in his team's first five games. Others on the list include Marcus Allen, Barry Sanders, Ricky Williams and Leonard Fournette.
• 11 • The Cardinal owns the longest winning streak in the series with Oregon -- 11 games -- from 1900-29.
• 10.5 • Junior running back Bryce Love ranks first nationally with 10.5 yards/rush.
• 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 • With nine rushing touchdowns on the season, junior running back Bryce Love ranks fourth nationally and second among Pac-12 players. Junior running back Cameron Scarlett's six rushing touchdowns ranks seventh among Pac-12 players.
• 8.72 • Junior running back Bryce Love is Stanford's career leader with 8.72 yards/rush. The FBS career yards/rush record is 8.26 by Glenn Davis of Army (1943-46). The minimum number of carries to qualify is 300 -- Love has 258.
• 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.
• 8 • Junior running back Bryce Love's 301 yards rushing against Arizona State (Sept. 30) is the eighth-best single-game total in Pac-12 history.
• 8 • Junior running back Bryce Love is the first Cardinal ever with 100 yards rushing in each of his first eight career starts. His eight consecutive games with 100 or more yards rushing ranks second in Stanford history (Christian McCaffrey - 9).
• 8 • Junior running back Bryce Love has scored at least one touchdown in eight consecutive games, a streak that ranks third in Stanford history (Toby Gerhart - 11, Tyler Gaffney - 10).
• 7 • Sophomore K.J. Costello is the seventh straight Stanford quarterback to win his starting debut, a 34-24 victory over Arizona State (Sept. 30).
• 7 • Junior running back Bryce Love has seven rushing touchdowns of 50 or more yards.
• 6.03 • Stanford's running backs enjoy a nation-leading 6.03 yards before contact per rush, despite seeing seven more defenders in the box on 82.2 percent of plays.
• 6 • At least six foreign languages are spoken by the Cardinal -- French (Sean Barton, Peter Kalambayi and Osiris St. Brown), 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 championship 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 • Stanford has advanced to six bowl games in as many seasons under head coach David Shaw. Only Alabama's Nick Saban (10), Clemson's Dabo Swinney (9) and Florida State's Jimbo Fisher (7) have longer consecutive streaks dating to the tenure's start with their current team.
• 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.
• 5 • Stanford has twice this season scored five rushing touchdowns in a game (vs. Rice, vs. UCLA).
• 5 • Junior safety Justin Reid leads the nation with five interceptions.
• 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 has multiple interceptions in each of the past three games.
• 2.05 • Stanford has 178 rushing touchdowns in David Shaw's 87 games as head coach, an average of 2.05/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 scoring catches in a season opener.
• 2 • Along with Oregon State, Stanford is one of two Power 5 programs with two byes this season.
• 2 • Junior running back Bryce Love has two games with 250 or more rushing yards on the season. The rest of FBS players? Only four such games combined.
• 2 • Stanford ranks second among Pac-12 teams in tackles for loss allowed (4.67).
• 1 • Stanford ranks first among Pac-12 teams in passes had intercepted (2).
• 1 • Stanford ranks first among Pac-12 teams in turnovers lost (5).
• 1 • Stanford's defense has at least one takeaway in 20 of the past 25 games (13 forced fumbles, 24 interceptions).
• 1 • Stanford has at least one sack in 74 of its past 80 games.
• 1 • The Cardinal has at least one tackle for loss in each of its past 92 contests.
• 1.000 • Under head coach David Shaw, Stanford is 8-0 (1.000) on FS1.
• .962 • Stanford's .962 clip in the red zone ranks second among Pac-12 teams.
• .800 • Stanford is 80-20 (.800) in this decade, the sixth-best winning pct. nationally over that stretch.
• .776 • Head coach David Shaw is 45-13 (.776) against Pac-12 opponents during the regular season.
• .769 • Stanford is 20-6 (.769) under head coach David Shaw in October.
• .656 • Of 46 Power 5 head coaches that have completed at least five seasons, David Shaw's .656 (21-11) career winning percentage against ranked teams is second.
• 0 • Stanford's opener against Rice was one of five games played during the season's Week 0.
• 0 • Stanford has not allowed a sack over the past three games (72 pass attempts), the only non-service academy that has not surrendered a sack over the past three games.