[Farm93]

3) They had time to prepare. Chip Kelly has been at Oregon, as a head coach, since 2009. Since then, he's lost five games. In all five of those games, his opponent has had a week or more to prepare for the matchup.

The Staff will never admit it, but I would guess that Stanford has spent more than a week preparing for this game and this opponent.  I would not be shocked at all if the sub-par performance versus OSU was a direct result of a few too many on the staff planning for Oregon.  It seems quite clear that a few key players were held out of the OSU game to get healthier for Oregon.

The team was not sitting around watching TV on Saturday, but I believe Stanford will be ready for Oregon.

And this 'Bama rematch talk consuming all of the media outlets is probably a blessing for Stanford.  Oregon now has absolutely no chance to be in the BCS game which has to be demoralizing.  And Stanford is not burdened with playing as BCS #2.  (yet!)

[Farm93]

3) They had time to prepare. Chip Kelly has been at Oregon, as a head coach, since 2009. Since then, he's lost five games. In all five of those games, his opponent has had a week or more to prepare for the matchup.

The Staff will never admit it, but I would guess that Stanford has spent more than a week preparing for this game and this opponent.  I would not be shocked at all if the sub-par performance versus OSU was a direct result of a few too many on the staff planning for Oregon.  It seems quite clear that a few key players were held out of the OSU game to get healthier for Oregon.

The team was not sitting around watching TV on Saturday, but I believe Stanford will be ready for Oregon.

And this 'Bama rematch talk consuming all of the media outlets is probably a blessing for Stanford.  Oregon now has absolutely no chance to be in the BCS game which has to be demoralizing.  And Stanford is not burdened with playing as BCS #2.  (yet!)