[Papa John]

And one more thing about Stanford's NCAA chances. Here are the current conference standings, with conference record, overall record and RPI:

1. OSU, 20-4, 38-8, #5
2. UW, 19-5, 36-11-1, #24
3. UO, 14-10, 35-16, #25
4. ASU, 14-10, 26-21, #41
5. USC, 14-13, 26-22, #78
6. WSU, 12-12, 22-24, #122
7. Stanford, 11-13, 24-21, #32
8. UCLA, 10-14, 23-25-1, #115
9. Cal, 9-15, 21-25, #67
10. UA, 8-19, 19-30, #184
11. Utah, 4-20, 15-30, #166

Stanford has a shot at 5th place, since USC--which won two out of three at Stanford back in March--has been reeling as of late. The Trojans lost two out of three to WSU and Cal in their most recent conference series, and have only 1st place OSU left on their conference schedule.

In any case, this is a really impressive turnaround when you consider that exactly one month ago Stanford was 3-8 Pac-12, 11-16 overall (thanks for pointing this out, BobK). I know that nothing beats a national championship, which we've been fortunate enough to see every year since I was in grade school, i.e. a long time ago. But I have to admit it's just as thrilling for me to see a team overcome adversity, continue to improve when they could have thrown in the metaphorical towel, and put together a playoff drive like this team has done. Go Stanford!

[Papa John]

And one more thing about Stanford's NCAA chances. Here are the current conference standings, with conference record, overall record and RPI:

1. OSU, 20-4, 38-8, #5
2. UW, 19-5, 36-11-1, #24
3. UO, 14-10, 35-16, #25
4. ASU, 14-10, 26-21, #41
5. USC, 14-13, 26-22, #78
6. WSU, 12-12, 22-24, #122
7. Stanford, 11-13, 24-21, #32
8. UCLA, 10-14, 23-25-1, #115
9. Cal, 9-15, 21-25, #67
10. UA, 8-19, 19-30, #184
11. Utah, 4-20, 15-30, #166

Stanford has a shot at 5th place, since USC--which won two out of three at Stanford back in March--has been reeling as of late. The Trojans lost two out of three to WSU and Cal in their most recent conference series, and have only 1st place OSU left on their conference schedule.

In any case, this is a really impressive turnaround when you consider that exactly one month ago Stanford was 3-8 Pac-12, 11-16 overall (thanks for pointing this out, BobK). I know that nothing beats a national championship, which we've been fortunate enough to see every year since I was in grade school, i.e. a long time ago. But I have to admit it's just as thrilling for me to see a team overcome adversity, continue to improve when they could have thrown in the metaphorical towel, and put together a playoff drive like this team has done. Go Stanford!