The Opening Kickoff
- Stanford football opens its home slate with its first ACC game of 2025, hosting Boston College inside Stanford Stadium on Saturday night.
- The Cardinal began the season on the road, facing Hawai'i and BYU. Last week's game in Provo against the Cougars saw the Cardinal offense stymied in a 27-3 defeat.
- Despite some offensive struggles, Stanford's defense was solid all night long against BYU. The Cardinal limited BYU to just 332 total yards of offense after BYU put up over 600 yards in its season opener. Stanford also held BYU to 4.9 yards per play, the lowest mark for BYU's offense since the season finale of 2023. In allowing just 175 passing yards, Stanford held a team under 200 yards passing for the first time since Nov. 25, 2023 (Notre Dame).
- Even though Stanford has allowed the opposition into the red zone 10 times through the first two games, the defense has shown a "bend but don't break" mentality. Stanford has only allowed four red zone touchdowns. That ranks sixth in the ACC in touchdown percentage (40%).
- After a multi-sack performance in the season opener, Clay Patterson added another sack to his ledger, picking up a second-half sack against BYU. It's the first time Patterson has had sacks in consecutive games since a span of five-straight games during his time at Yale in 2022-23. His three sacks rank third in the ACC two weeks into the season and is just 0.5 sacks behind the FBS lead.
- After a lot of success on the ground at Hawai'i, Stanford found rushing yardage harder to come by at BYU. Four Stanford rushers combined for just 19 yards on 24 carries. It was the fewest rushing yards Stanford has had in a game since Oct. 8, 2021 at Arizona State.
- Stanford head coach Frank Reich and Boston College head coach Bill O'Brien were NFL head coaches in the AFC South: Reich with the Indianapolis Colts and O'Brien with the Houston Texans. The two faced each other five times, with Reich owning a 3-2 record against O'Brien.
- Stanford welcomed 17 transfers to the program in 2025, the most in a single season in program history and more than all other seasons combined.