| National Titles | |||||||
| Season | Coach | Overall | League | Bowl | |||
| 1926 | Pop Warner | 10-0-1 | 4-0-0 | Rose | |||
| 1940 | Clark Shaughnessy | 10-0-0 | 7-0-0 | Rose | |||
| The 1926 team was declared national champions by the Dickinson System, Helms Athletic Foundation, National Championship Foundation and Sagarin Ratings. Although Minnesota was declared national champions in the final 1940 Associated Press Poll, which was the best-known and most widely circulated poll of sportswriters and broadcasters in determining the national champion, Stanford was recognized as national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation and Polling System. | |||||||
| Conference Titles | |||||||
| Season | Conference | Coach | Overall | League | Bowl | ||
| 1924 | Pacific Coast | Pop Warner | 7-1-1 | 3-0-1 | - | ||
| 1926 | Pacific Coast | Pop Warner | 10-0-1 | 4-0 | Rose | ||
| 1927 | Pacific Coast | Pop Warner | 8-2-1 | 4-0-1 (tie) | Rose | ||
| 1933 | Pacific Coast | C.E. Thornhill | 8-2-1 | 4-1-0 (tie) | Rose | ||
| 1934 | Pacific Coast | C.E. Thornhill | 9-1-1 | 5-0 | Rose | ||
| 1935 | Pacific Coast | C.E. Thornhill | 8-1 | 4-1-0 (tie) | Rose | ||
| 1940 | Pacific Coast | Clark Shaughnessy | 10-0 | 7-0 | Rose | ||
| 1951 | Pacific Coast | Charles Taylor | 9-2 | 6-1 | Rose | ||
| 1970 | Pacific-8 | John Ralston | 9-3 | 6-1 | Rose | ||
| 1971 | Pacific-8 | John Ralston | 9-3 | 6-1 | Rose | ||
| 1992 | Pacific-10 | Bill Walsh | 10-3 | 6-2 (tie) | Blockbuster | ||
| 1999 | Pacific-10 | Tyrone Willingham | 8-4-0 | 7-1 | Rose | ||
| 2012 | Pacific-12 | David Shaw | 12-2 | 8-1 | Rose | ||
| 2013 | Pacific-12 | David Shaw | 11-3 | 7-2 | Rose | ||
| 2015 | Pacific-12 | David Shaw | 12-2 | 8-1 | Rose | ||
| Unbeaten and Untied | |||||||
| Season | Record | Coach | Final AP Ranking | ||||
| 1905 | 8-0-0 | James F. Lanagan | - | ||||
| 1940 | 10-0-0 | Clark Shaughnessy | 2 | ||||
| Unbeaten | |||||||
| Season | Record | Coach | Final AP Ranking | ||||
| 1892 | 1-0-2 | Walter Camp | - | ||||
| 1893 | 8-0-1 | Pop Bliss | - | ||||
| 1895 | 4-0-1 | Walter Camp | - | ||||
| 1903 | 8-0-3 | James F. Lanagan | - | ||||
| 1926 | 10-0-1 | Pop Warner | - | ||||
| 12-Win Seasons | |||||||
| Season | Record | Coach | Final AP Ranking | ||||
| 2010 | 12-1-0 | Jim Harbaugh | 4 | ||||
| 2012 | 12-2-0 | David Shaw | 7 | ||||
| 2015 | 12-2-0 | David Shaw | 3 | ||||
| 11-Win Seasons | |||||||
| Season | Record | Coach | Final AP Ranking | ||||
| 2011 | 11-2-0 | David Shaw | 7 | ||||
| 2013 | 11-3-0 | David Shaw | 11 | ||||
| 10-Win Seasons | |||||||
| Season | Record | Coach | Final AP Ranking | ||||
| 1926 | 10-0-1 | Pop Warner | - | ||||
| 1940 | 10-0-0 | Clark Shaughnessy | 2 | ||||
| 1992 | 10-3-0 | Bill Walsh | 9 | ||||
| 2016 | 10-3-0 | David Shaw | 12 | ||||
| Nine-Win Seasons | |||||||
| Season | Record | Coach | Final AP Ranking | ||||
| 1929 | 9-2-0 | Pop Warner | - | ||||
| 1930 | 9-1-1 | Pop Warner | - | ||||
| 1934 | 9-1-1 | C.E. Thornhill | - | ||||
| 1951 | 9-2-0 | Chuck Taylor | 7 | ||||
| 1970 | 9-3-0 | John Ralston | 8 | ||||
| 1971 | 9-3-0 | John Ralston | 10 | ||||
| 1977 | 9-3-0 | Bill Walsh | 15 | ||||
| 2001 | 9-3-0 | Tyrone Willingham | 16 | ||||
| 2017 | 9-5-0 | David Shaw | 20 | ||||
| 2018 | 9-4-0 | David Shaw | - | ||||