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"So if Stanford can actually play a crisp first game, which they haven't in I can't remember how long, they should win big, 49-21."  
That is where I am sitting for the first game... until Troy Taylor and the Guys disappoint us.  
Taylor showed QUICK results at a nothing program left for dead at sad SacST -- 0-7 in league in 2018.  
They went 9-4 in Taylor's first season, 2019.  Quick turnaround.   30-8 over three seasons.  Impressive.  

I am betting 
1)  Taylor knows what he is doing with QBs.  
2)  The new Defensive Coaching staff transplanted from @WISC pulls together the Defense quicker than we think. 
Look for THREE Turnovers by the Defense to make the difference in this game, killing Rainbow drives.  
Yes, the RWs sling it around in the Air Raid, and I think that means INTs.  Both our CBs, Wright & Manley, are hawkers. 
And I think our DL and LBs will stop run threats -- as Vandy did.  
3)  The O-Line for HAWI is not USC.   Party-in-the-Backfield REDUX with Bailey, Keneley, and some blitzing LBs. 
4)  Taylor will call a balanced game and let Smith & Filkins slash through between short routes to Yurasek and the tall WRs. 
 
Until he disappoints, I am betting on Taylor, plus the Turnovers.  Have some.
Harbaugh came out of Univ of San Diego (the Toreros, not the Aztecs)...

[ADPinWDC]

"So if Stanford can actually play a crisp first game, which they haven't in I can't remember how long, they should win big, 49-21."  
That is where I am sitting for the first game... until Troy Taylor and the Guys disappoint us.  
Taylor showed QUICK results at a nothing program left for dead at sad SacST -- 0-7 in league in 2018.  
They went 9-4 in Taylor's first season, 2019.  Quick turnaround.   30-8 over three seasons.  Impressive.  

I am betting 
1)  Taylor knows what he is doing with QBs.  
2)  The new Defensive Coaching staff transplanted from @WISC pulls together the Defense quicker than we think. 
Look for THREE Turnovers by the Defense to make the difference in this game, killing Rainbow drives.  
Yes, the RWs sling it around in the Air Raid, and I think that means INTs.  Both our CBs, Wright & Manley, are hawkers. 
And I think our DL and LBs will stop run threats -- as Vandy did.  
3)  The O-Line for HAWI is not USC.   Party-in-the-Backfield REDUX with Bailey, Keneley, and some blitzing LBs. 
4)  Taylor will call a balanced game and let Smith & Filkins slash through between short routes to Yurasek and the tall WRs. 
 
Until he disappoints, I am betting on Taylor, plus the Turnovers.  Have some.
Harbaugh came out of Univ of San Diego (the Toreros, not the Aztecs)...