• Stanford hosts No. 5 Notre Dame on Saturday night at Stanford Stadium to close out the regular season..
• Stanford and Notre Dame meet for the 35th time in history, with the Fighting Irish holding a 21-13 advantage. Prior to the 2020 pandemic-affected season in which Stanford played a conference-only schedule, the Cardinal and Fighting Irish had met every year since 1988, with the exception of the 1995 and 1996 seasons.
• The first meeting between the two programs came at the 1925 Rose Bowl in Pasadena. That game matched Notre Dame’s Four Horesemen and head coach Knute Rockne against Stanford’s Ernie Nevers and head coach Pop Warner.
• The Legends Trophy is awarded to the winner. It is named in honor of the 1925 Rose Bowl meeting, which was said by sportswriters to contain more legends on one field than had ever played the game.
• The trophy was created by the Notre Dame Club of San Francisco Bay Area, appropriately from Northern California redwood with an Irish crystal bowl.
• Stanford is the only school in the country playing 12 Power Five opponents during the regular season. The Cardinal is the first program since USC in 2011 to schedule 12 Power Five teams in the regular season. Eight of Stanford’s opponents are bowl eligible with the possibility of one more getting there. The eight bowl-eligible opponents are tied for the sixth-most nationally.
• Excluding the pandemic-affected 2020 schedule, only one other Stanford team (1976) played as many as five of its first seven games on the road like the 2021 Cardinal did. The 2021 season was only the third since World War II to have only one road game after October 16 (also 1954, 1971). Stanford was the only Power Five program to play five of its first seven games away from home.
• As is tradition at Stanford, all 27 fourth, fifth and sixth-year seniors will participate in Saturday’s Senior Day festivities and runout. This is independent of whether those with remaining eligibility will return next season or not.
• The 27 student-athletes are: CB Ethan Bonner, DE Thomas Booker, TE/DE Tucker Fisk, OLB Andres Fox, OLB Jordan Fox, FB Houston Heimuli, DE Ryan Johnson, OLB Tangaloa Kaufusi, OLB Thunder Keck, ILB Caleb Kelly, DE Trey LaBounty, CB/S Donjae Logan, ILB Jake Lynch, RB Dorian Maddox, ILB Jacob Mangum-Farrar, ILB Ricky Miezan, LS Kyle Petrucci, QB Dylan Plautz, OLB Gabe Reid, QB Isaiah Sanders, FB Jay Symonds, WR Brycen Tremayne, DT Dalyn Wade-Perry, QB Jack West, S Noah Williams, S Kendall Williamson and WR Michael Wilson