[82lsju]

Who at Stanford had the temerity to schedule Elon University anyway? Pretty weak if you ask me. Their last three games were against Rhode Island, Campbell (S?), and North Carolina A&T. They were 6 and 6 last year.

Maybe Duke recommended them? The Blue Devils played Elon in 2024 and 2025.

I'm guessing that the ACC released its new, mostly (for this season) 9-game schedule last December and Stanford wasn't able to find an FBS team to fill that opening.

I don't think many teams play 12 FBS games.  We have 10 power 4 (+ND), one group of 5, and one FCS opponents which seems pretty typical

Looking at a few others (although none that I looked at have an FCS team as their reunion game)

Cal plays Wagner
Miami plays Florida A&M
Clemson plays Charleston Southern

we announced the date for the Elon game on Dec 16, 2025

https://gostanford.com/news/2025/12/16/u...6-schedule

Given reunion weekend is usually in the second half of October the reunion weekend game was likely going to be one of Oct 17, 24, and 31 so before the ACC schedule was announced it looked like a 33% chance for Elon to be the reunion game opponent.  No idea how much influence we had to get an ACC home game on the Oct 24 or 31 (probably little or more likely none).  Of course if they had scheduled the NCSU game for Oct 24 instead of TBD for Oct 23 or 24) it might have been reunion weekend.

[82lsju]

Who at Stanford had the temerity to schedule Elon University anyway? Pretty weak if you ask me. Their last three games were against Rhode Island, Campbell (S?), and North Carolina A&T. They were 6 and 6 last year.

Maybe Duke recommended them? The Blue Devils played Elon in 2024 and 2025.

I'm guessing that the ACC released its new, mostly (for this season) 9-game schedule last December and Stanford wasn't able to find an FBS team to fill that opening.

I don't think many teams play 12 FBS games.  We have 10 power 4 (+ND), one group of 5, and one FCS opponents which seems pretty typical

Looking at a few others (although none that I looked at have an FCS team as their reunion game)

Cal plays Wagner
Miami plays Florida A&M
Clemson plays Charleston Southern

we announced the date for the Elon game on Dec 16, 2025

https://gostanford.com/news/2025/12/16/u...6-schedule

Given reunion weekend is usually in the second half of October the reunion weekend game was likely going to be one of Oct 17, 24, and 31 so before the ACC schedule was announced it looked like a 33% chance for Elon to be the reunion game opponent.  No idea how much influence we had to get an ACC home game on the Oct 24 or 31 (probably little or more likely none).  Of course if they had scheduled the NCSU game for Oct 24 instead of TBD for Oct 23 or 24) it might have been reunion weekend.