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Since 2005, Stanford has started 11, 14, 14, 14, 15, 14, 13, 9, 9, 12, 14, 14, 13, 11, 7, 8 , 5, 7, 12, and 10. 12 this year for another majority white team.

Positive this news morning as transfer QB Ben Gulbranson was named starting QB this morning. Really makes this a team worth watching! Didn't expect him to get the benefit of the doubt.

All Ivy League transfer David Pantelis could be playmaker at WR. Stanford always has great defensive depth. All white DL. Two white safeties--feels like Leigber has been around forever. He even started a few games for them at RB years ago.

Offense -
QB - Ben Gulbranson
WR - David Pantelis
TE - Sam Roush
LG - Jack Leyrer
OC - Nathan Mejia
RT - Niki Prongos

Defense -
DE - Anthony Franklin
NT - Zach Buckey
DE - Zach Rowell
ILB - Hunter Barth
SS - Scotty Edwards
FS - Mitch Leigber
 
Looks like Stanford is trying to make its way back to its winning ways.
 
Glad to see Gulbranson get a fair shot. He was screwed over at Oregon State. Dylan Riszk should be his successor, he played well last year for UCF.

Andrew Luck’s return as GM of Stanford has been an early success.
 
The only thing academic powers have to offer in the NIL era is the value of their degrees. White athletes are far more likely to choose that over a 100k NIL payday. Hoping to see Stanford and similar programs continue to move in the right direction.
 
Now that’s some positive news! Very excited to see Stanford this season.
 
Very rough start for this new Reich regime, losing to Hawaii without much fireworks, offensive or otherwise. Gulbranson's stat-line sucked, too, so I hope the problems with the offense won't attempted to be "fixed" quickly with the true freshman black kid.


Former NFL quarterback and head coach Frank Reich has long been known as “Captain Comeback.” However, in his first game as a college head coach, Reich’s Stanford team wound up on the wrong end of one.

Hawaii kicker Kansei Matsuzawa’s walk-off 38-yard field goal lifted his Mountain West school to a 23-20 win over the ACC’s Cardinal. The Warriors rallied from an early 10-0 deficit and fell behind again in the fourth quarter before producing two field-goal drives in the final two minutes.

Stanford, which has suffered four straight 3-9 seasons, was playing its first game since former star Andrew Luck became the program’s general manager last winter and later fired then-head coach Troy Taylor in March. That decision came after the public revelation of two internal investigations into Taylor’s workplace conduct.

Rather than hiring a permanent replacement, Luck appointed Reich, his former Indianapolis Colts head coach, to serve as interim head coach for the 2025 season. Reich had been out of coaching since his 2023 dismissal by the Carolina Panthers.


Reich became Stanford’s interim coach just a day before the Cardinal opened spring practices in late March. He scrapped Taylor’s hurry-up spread offense and installed much the same pro-style scheme he ran with Luck as his quarterback in Indianapolis. Stanford spent most of Saturday’s game under center, huddling and using multiple tight-end sets.

They started the game strong, driving 70 yards for a field goal, and then went up 10-0 on Hawaii’s first offensive play. Defensive tackle Clay Patterson sacked Hawaii quarterback Micah Alejado in the end zone and forced a fumble, recovered by Wilfredo Aybar.

However, Hawaii’s defense quickly adjusted to Stanford’s downhill running game, and the Cardinal did not reach the end zone in the second or third quarters. Stanford quarterback Ben Gulbranson, who transferred in from Oregon State after spring practices, struggled (15-of-30 for 109 yards) most of the day.

The Cardinal reclaimed momentum in the fourth quarter with a 20-play, 85-yard touchdown drive led primarily by running back Micah Ford (26 carries, 113 yards, one TD) to go up 20-17. They looked to go up by more on their next drive when Gulbranson completed a third-down play-action pass for 36 yards, but two plays later, he was picked off in the red zone by Hawaii’s Kilinahe Mendiola-Jensen.

Alejado (27-of-39 for 210 yards, two TDs and no INTs), a redshirt freshman making his second career start, went out with an ankle injury for part of the third quarter and was noticeably limping when he returned. However, he led Hawaii to a game-tying field goal with 2:01 left and then, after Hawaii’s defense held Stanford to a three-and-out in less than 30 seconds, went 4-of-5 to set up the game winner.

Hawaii, which has not posted a winning record since 2020, faces another Power 4 foe next week at Arizona. Stanford is off next weekend before visiting BYU.
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Yikes horrible start for Stanford. Hawaii was the perfect team to get back on track.. Crap stat line for Gulbranson!
 
Disappointing start to the season. Gulbranson didn't look good yesterday.

On a positive note - LB Mike Rose with 12 solo/1 assisted tackle, 1 sack and 2 TFLs

LB Hunter Barth with a sack

DL Clay Patterson with 2 sacks.

No sign of WR David Pantelis.
 
I noticed the overachievers stat lines on Defense definitely a positive!

For how stagnant the passing game was, would be nice to see Pantelis get involved as the season goes on.
 
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