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Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Kathy - 09-05-2014

Stanford 38
USC 28

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Griffins78 - 09-05-2014

Cardinal & White 31
Cardinal & Gold 21

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - thunder_chik - 09-05-2014

Cardinal-34, U Spoiled Children-24.
Defense gets a pick 6, Special Teams a kick return for 6

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Rally - 09-05-2014

Stanford Daily picks.  For what they're worth.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/09/04/football-predictions-stanford-vs-usc/?utm_campaign=Newsatme&utm_content=Football%2Bpredictions%3A%2BStanford%2Bvs.%2BUSC&utm_medium=news%40me&utm_source=mail%2Balert

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Renaissance Man - 09-05-2014

Stanford 27-17

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - burger - 09-05-2014

A nailbiter: Stanford 31, U$C 30

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Extra Point - 09-05-2014

Stanford  31
U$C  20

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Treebound - 09-05-2014

Stanford Cardinal 31
University of Fake Drowning Nephews 27

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Brannerite - 09-05-2014

Stanford 28
University of Sketchy Characters 24

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - martyup - 09-05-2014

(09-05-2014, 07:41 AM)ferrari link Wrote:Stanford Daily picks.  For what they're worth.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/09/04/football-predictions-stanford-vs-Unabashedly Scamming Charlatans/?utm_campaign=Newsatme&utm_content=Football%2Bpredictions%3A%2BStanford%2Bvs.%2BUSC&utm_medium=news%40me&utm_source=mail%2Balert

Those two unfaithful treasonous traitors, Park and Chen, should be summarily fired and removed from campus on a rail, tarred and feathered.  >:(

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - oman - 09-05-2014

17-14  Northern

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Rally - 09-05-2014

(09-05-2014, 01:24 PM)martyup link Wrote:[quote author=ferrari link=topic=10516.msg96607#msg96607 date=1409928094]
Stanford Daily picks.  For what they're worth.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/09/04/football-predictions-stanford-vs-Unabashedly Scamming Charlatans/?utm_campaign=Newsatme&utm_content=Football%2Bpredictions%3A%2BStanford%2Bvs.%2BUSC&utm_medium=news%40me&utm_source=mail%2Balert

Those two unfaithful treasonous traitors should be summarily fired and removed from campus tarred and feathered on a rail.
[/quote]

Don't hold back, Marty, tell us how you really feel.

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Rally - 09-05-2014

What's the deadline for submitting my prediction?  I'm trying to wait for the USC police/injury report.

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Durty Nelly - 09-05-2014

Stanford 41-17

Shaw has been scheming for this all summer.

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Leftcoast - 09-05-2014

Quote:Stanford 41-17

Shaw has been scheming for this all summer.  - Durty Nelly

This Durty Nelly outside Bunratty Castle?  I think I had a pint there a time or two - Fun place even if it is a tourist hang out!

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Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - martyup - 09-05-2014

I am going to make this prediction from my heart.  I will put away the dubiety that understandably resides in the head of every Stanford fan that lived through the lean years of Stanford football.

We are the reining back-to-back Pac-12 Champions, we are undefeated, and we have not been scored upon this season.  We have arguably one of the best head coaches in college football, who has a record of 35-7 at Stanford.  We have what coach Shaw describes as the "best offensive line class that's ever been recruited by anybody."  We have a QB that is 17-3 as a starter (10-1 against ranked opponents).  We have arguable the best defensive secondary and the best group of receivers in Stanford football history.  We get to play, at home, a team that last season cost our team a shot at the NCG.  We get to play against a coach with a record of 36-29 who last season accused our players of faking injuries and called our coach a liar.  That's motivation.

At this point in time, we can rationally proclaim that Stanford is a National Championship caliber team.  This is the inaugural season for the new college football playoff system.  So, Stanford has the opportunity to be the first champion under this system.  That's more motivation.

I choose to predict the score of this game under the assumption that Stanford will be the eventual National Champions.  I will continue to operate under this assumption until this team proves it wrong. 

That being the case,  I predict that our defense will shut down Sark's HUNH offense.  We will get to Kessler frequently, forcing early throws.  The Toejam offense's TOP will be limited, because our offense, under Bloomgren's brilliant ball control game plan, will keep them on the sideline.  I predict they will score 2 field goals, period.  I predict our D will score a defensive TD on a pick 6.

On offense, I believe that our receivers will dominate the small secondary of SC.  Their biggest defensive back weighs just 185, which is 40 pounds under our receivers' average weight.  We will get catches from TEs, WRs and RBs.  I believe that Sanders and Young will continue with their 5+ ypc averages and we will keep moving the sticks forward with a balanced ball control offensive attack.  In last year's game, we failed repeatedly in the red zone.  We'll do better this year inside the 20, but we will have to settle for 2 field goals on stalled drives.  That will be in addition to 3 TDs from our offense.

But wait, there's more.  Montgomery will continue his brilliance returning kicks and give us great field position all day long.  He will also take one of those kick returns to the house.

Overall, I predict that USC's 5 Star prima donnas will fold like a house of cards after being served a taste of Stanford's intellectual brutality.  Panic will set in on their sideline, and a player or two will be caught on camera shedding a tear.  Sark will complain about the refs, and the weather, and anything but his team's utter failure on the football field.  After the slaughter, Teojam alums will start calling for Sark's head.

Add it all up and my prediction is:

Stanford Cardinal - 41
University Situated in Compton - 6

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - CornFed - 09-05-2014

Martyup-
  That write-up gave me goosebumps!  You are the MAN/WOMAN!

  Now I feel that my prediction is puny and timid.

I will cherish events as they unfold.  I never thought I would live long enough to experience Stanford football with even a reasonable consideration that games might be part of a quest for a National Championship.  Maybe they will this year.  Maybe they won't.  It doesn't change the fact that it is a relevant thought.

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Hey - 09-05-2014

Trees:  28
Fertilizer:  14

I really have no idea on many of these guesses, I just like all statistical breakdowns of all the guessing at the end.

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - martyup - 09-05-2014

(09-05-2014, 06:43 PM)CornFed link Wrote:I will cherish events as they unfold.  I never thought I would live long enough to experience Stanford football with even a reasonable consideration that games might be part of a quest for a National Championship.  Maybe they will this year.  Maybe they won't.  It doesn't change the fact that it is a relevant thought.

It's a great time to be a Stanford football fan.  Win or lose tomorrow, that won't change.

P.S.  I really wanted to predict that Barry Sanders goes off tomorrow and gains over 100 yards.  While that would be great, my heart tells me that Shaw will keep his carries about even with Young.

Re: (13) Stanford Vs (14) U.SC: Predict the score - Rally - 09-05-2014

(09-05-2014, 06:43 PM)CornFed link Wrote:Martyup-
  That write-up gave me goosebumps!  You are the MAN/WOMAN!

  Now I feel that my prediction is puny and timid.

I will cherish events as they unfold.  I never thought I would live long enough to experience Stanford football with even a reasonable consideration that games might be part of a quest for a National Championship.  Maybe they will this year.  Maybe they won't.  It doesn't change the fact that it is a relevant thought.

As a long time, mostly silent fan, I have developed a certain amount of reserve regarding my favorite team.  For years I have assured well-wishers that we go to the Rose Bowl about once every 25 years or so.  I was shocked but not surprised over our epic epset in 2007.  We are Stanford and do rise up once in awhile.  Then in 2009 I was shocked and a bit surprised, not at the win but Harbaugh's audacity.  This was great but didn't the fool realize this was Stanford and while we have had our glorious moments, these things don't last?  Then the triple overtime.  I was at a wedding and just stealing glances at the bar in Pasadena.  Then stopped.  I had seen this script before.  Valiant effort, fought like warriors, fine young men, yada yada yada, but I knew the ending.  Then the earth stood still.

I remember shock.  This doesn't happen.  I checked several times.  It was true.

Now we truly are in uncharted waters.  Relatively (to me) youngsters are talking national championship.  Are they nuts?  Or am I. 

I lived through Plunkett winning and giving them the ball back deep in their own territory with only . . . Only! . . . 57 seconds left, in the Coliseum.  The damn horse came out and reared.  I was there.  We couldn't lose.  Except we did.  My new father in law, diehard Trojan fan, asked me, "how could you have lost?"  I answered truthfully, at the time.  We are Stanford.

Now, maybe, we are a new Stanford.  My hopes are high and my faith is strong, but in my heart of hearts I can't, yet, let go of the past.  Tomorrow may lay that to rest for me.  I hope so.  If we go to the Rose Bowl every 25 years or so I won't see very many more.

Go Card!