[old spanish trail]

Tremendously entertaining and well played football game.

Would have been nice to score more than 7 pts in second half, but at least they weren't needed.

You must make plays to win games and Stanford made many.

Mills really is an uber talented QB. His quick feet and release on the first 3rd down conversion of the last drive was a tremendous example of that. Nick Mullens, an NFL QB, can't do that.

We only had three possessions that didn't end at the end of the game.  We had one TD, one punt, and the fumble.  We were certainly in field goal range and had first and ten at the Washington 12 at the end of the game, so we could have scored more had we needed to.  To be honest, the last drive 14 plays, 79 yards, nearly 8(!) minutes, was the most impressive of the game.  We converted two third downs and a fourth down.  Mills had a couple big third down passes, and at the end, Jones had runs of 3, 11, 2, 5, 2, 3 against a defense that was selling out to stop the run.

To be honest, one of the most satisfying things to watch in the 2009 - 2015 era was Stanford get the ball in the fourth quarter with a one-score lead and and not relinquish the ball to the other team.  We'd run a 10+ play drive that chewed up 5+ minutes and ended with us taking a knee.  This was a nice reminder of those days.

BC

Am looking forward to watching the first three quarters - what I saw in Q4 was vintage Shaw, bailed out by uber-elite QB play from Mills (and a ridiculous catch by Fehoko).  I could not believe the run plays on 1st and second downs on the last drive - both led to third and longs.  It's okay to run - but in that formation where no one is out wide, Stanford runs to the heavy side every time.  It led to 1, 1, and 0 yards (the back-to-back same play after the first first down was especially exasperating).  Anyway, it all worked out in the end, but man, it felt like Stanford had some good fortune there (and elite QBs can make good fortune).

But perhaps watching the first 3 quarters will make those formations/plays more reasonable.

As stated elsewhere, I thought the best call of the last drive was the fourth down where Shaw again lined up in tight formation, heavy left. But the RB got the ball and ran right (presumably the called play) for the first down to ice the game.  Nice!  [BTW, right decisions to burn clock before snapping and to go for it on fourth down late, instead of kicking FG].

Congrats to team and coaching staff.  That one has to feel really good.

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Tremendously entertaining and well played football game.

Would have been nice to score more than 7 pts in second half, but at least they weren't needed.

You must make plays to win games and Stanford made many.

The heavy set was quite successful throughout the game, as good as it's been in some time. Hinton makes a big difference.

Mills really is an uber talented QB. His quick feet and release on the first 3rd down conversion of the last drive was a tremendous example of that. Nick Mullens, an NFL QB, can't do that.

We only had three possessions that didn't end at the end of the game.  We had one TD, one punt, and the fumble.  We were certainly in field goal range and had first and ten at the Washington 12 at the end of the game, so we could have scored more had we needed to.  To be honest, the last drive 14 plays, 79 yards, nearly 8(!) minutes, was the most impressive of the game.  We converted two third downs and a fourth down.  Mills had a couple big third down passes, and at the end, Jones had runs of 3, 11, 2, 5, 2, 3 against a defense that was selling out to stop the run.

To be honest, one of the most satisfying things to watch in the 2009 - 2015 era was Stanford get the ball in the fourth quarter with a one-score lead and and not relinquish the ball to the other team.  We'd run a 10+ play drive that chewed up 5+ minutes and ended with us taking a knee.  This was a nice reminder of those days.

BC

Am looking forward to watching the first three quarters - what I saw in Q4 was vintage Shaw, bailed out by uber-elite QB play from Mills (and a ridiculous catch by Fehoko).  I could not believe the run plays on 1st and second downs on the last drive - both led to third and longs.  It's okay to run - but in that formation where no one is out wide, Stanford runs to the heavy side every time.  It led to 1, 1, and 0 yards (the back-to-back same play after the first first down was especially exasperating).  Anyway, it all worked out in the end, but man, it felt like Stanford had some good fortune there (and elite QBs can make good fortune).

But perhaps watching the first 3 quarters will make those formations/plays more reasonable.

As stated elsewhere, I thought the best call of the last drive was the fourth down where Shaw again lined up in tight formation, heavy left. But the RB got the ball and ran right (presumably the called play) for the first down to ice the game.  Nice!  [BTW, right decisions to burn clock before snapping and to go for it on fourth down late, instead of kicking FG].

Congrats to team and coaching staff.  That one has to feel really good.

[old spanish trail]

Tremendously entertaining and well played football game.

Would have been nice to score more than 7 pts in second half, but at least they weren't needed.

You must make plays to win games and Stanford made many.

Mills really is an uber talented QB. His quick feet and release on the first 3rd down conversion of the last drive was a tremendous example of that. Nick Mullens, an NFL QB, can't do that.

We only had three possessions that didn't end at the end of the game.  We had one TD, one punt, and the fumble.  We were certainly in field goal range and had first and ten at the Washington 12 at the end of the game, so we could have scored more had we needed to.  To be honest, the last drive 14 plays, 79 yards, nearly 8(!) minutes, was the most impressive of the game.  We converted two third downs and a fourth down.  Mills had a couple big third down passes, and at the end, Jones had runs of 3, 11, 2, 5, 2, 3 against a defense that was selling out to stop the run.

To be honest, one of the most satisfying things to watch in the 2009 - 2015 era was Stanford get the ball in the fourth quarter with a one-score lead and and not relinquish the ball to the other team.  We'd run a 10+ play drive that chewed up 5+ minutes and ended with us taking a knee.  This was a nice reminder of those days.

BC

Am looking forward to watching the first three quarters - what I saw in Q4 was vintage Shaw, bailed out by uber-elite QB play from Mills (and a ridiculous catch by Fehoko).  I could not believe the run plays on 1st and second downs on the last drive - both led to third and longs.  It's okay to run - but in that formation where no one is out wide, Stanford runs to the heavy side every time.  It led to 1, 1, and 0 yards (the back-to-back same play after the first first down was especially exasperating).  Anyway, it all worked out in the end, but man, it felt like Stanford had some good fortune there (and elite QBs can make good fortune).

But perhaps watching the first 3 quarters will make those formations/plays more reasonable.

As stated elsewhere, I thought the best call of the last drive was the fourth down where Shaw again lined up in tight formation, heavy left. But the RB got the ball and ran right (presumably the called play) for the first down to ice the game.  Nice!  [BTW, right decisions to burn clock before snapping and to go for it on fourth down late, instead of kicking FG].

Congrats to team and coaching staff.  That one has to feel really good.

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Tremendously entertaining and well played football game.

Would have been nice to score more than 7 pts in second half, but at least they weren't needed.

You must make plays to win games and Stanford made many.

The heavy set was quite successful throughout the game, as good as it's been in some time. Hinton makes a big difference.

Mills really is an uber talented QB. His quick feet and release on the first 3rd down conversion of the last drive was a tremendous example of that. Nick Mullens, an NFL QB, can't do that.

We only had three possessions that didn't end at the end of the game.  We had one TD, one punt, and the fumble.  We were certainly in field goal range and had first and ten at the Washington 12 at the end of the game, so we could have scored more had we needed to.  To be honest, the last drive 14 plays, 79 yards, nearly 8(!) minutes, was the most impressive of the game.  We converted two third downs and a fourth down.  Mills had a couple big third down passes, and at the end, Jones had runs of 3, 11, 2, 5, 2, 3 against a defense that was selling out to stop the run.

To be honest, one of the most satisfying things to watch in the 2009 - 2015 era was Stanford get the ball in the fourth quarter with a one-score lead and and not relinquish the ball to the other team.  We'd run a 10+ play drive that chewed up 5+ minutes and ended with us taking a knee.  This was a nice reminder of those days.

BC

Am looking forward to watching the first three quarters - what I saw in Q4 was vintage Shaw, bailed out by uber-elite QB play from Mills (and a ridiculous catch by Fehoko).  I could not believe the run plays on 1st and second downs on the last drive - both led to third and longs.  It's okay to run - but in that formation where no one is out wide, Stanford runs to the heavy side every time.  It led to 1, 1, and 0 yards (the back-to-back same play after the first first down was especially exasperating).  Anyway, it all worked out in the end, but man, it felt like Stanford had some good fortune there (and elite QBs can make good fortune).

But perhaps watching the first 3 quarters will make those formations/plays more reasonable.

As stated elsewhere, I thought the best call of the last drive was the fourth down where Shaw again lined up in tight formation, heavy left. But the RB got the ball and ran right (presumably the called play) for the first down to ice the game.  Nice!  [BTW, right decisions to burn clock before snapping and to go for it on fourth down late, instead of kicking FG].

Congrats to team and coaching staff.  That one has to feel really good.