• Stanford (3-6, 1-6 Pac-12) heads on the road to Salt Lake City for a Saturday night matchup against Utah (7-2, 5-1 Pac-12). The Utes defeated Arizona State on Saturday night, while Stanford lost to Washington State.
• Three true freshmen debuted on Saturday against Washington State, bringing Stanford’s total to 16 true freshmen to play so far this season. Six of those true freshmen have already played in more than four games.
• Mitch Leigber made his first career start at running back Saturday against Washington State. He was the fourth different Cardinal to start at running back this season, and the ninth Stanford player overall to make their first career start this season.
• Saturday’s game marks Stanford’s fifth road game of the season. All five road games have kicked off at 7:30 p.m. local time or later, with Saturday’s 8 p.m. MT kick off. The Cardinal played at Washington (7:30 p.m. PT), at Oregon (8 p.m. PT), at Notre Dame (7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT), at UCLA (7:30 p.m. PT) and now at Utah (8 p.m. MT/7 p.m. PT).
• Stanford and Utah meet for the 11th time in series history on Saturday night. The Cardinal is 3-1 all-time at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City. Utah leads the overall series, 6-4, and has won each of the last two. David Shaw and Kyle Wittingham have met five times, with Utah getting the better of Stanford in four of those games.
• Tanner McKee is just the third Cardinal quarterback since 2000 (Andrew Luck, Kevin Hogan 3x each) to reach at least 2,000 passing yards in multiple seasons. Stanford quarterbacks with multiple 2,000- yard passing seasons are: Jim Plunkett, John Elway, John Paye, Steve Stenstrom, Chad Hutchinson, Todd Husak, Luck, Hogan and now McKee.
• Joshua Karty is one of two kickers nationally with at least 14 field goals made and no misses on the year. Karty is the only kicker in the nation with 10 field goals made of 40+ yards this season. He is a perfect 10-for-10 on those tries.
• Stanford’s left tackle Walter Rouse was named one of 15 finalists for the prestigious William V. Campbell Trophy in 2022. The trophy, dubbed the academic Heisman, is given annually by the National Football Foundation to the nation’s top football scholarathlete. To be eligible for the Campbell Trophy, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.3 GPA, be a major contributor on and off the field and be in their final season of eligibility. The winner will be announced in December at its annual Hall of Fame Awards dinner in Las Vegas.