[needle]

Tafiti, Stanford's almost-a-star DE, in street clothes. Fattig on the OL goes down, obviously will not return.

And yet..

Full credit to the opportunistic Stanford defense for being, uhh.. opportunistic, again keeping the team in the game when the offense is not exactly marching the ball down the field.

I'm glad that Gulbranson is having a good game. He clearly is able to roll to his right and deliver an accurate ball. Roush is just a very good athlete, so he definitely can do very-good-athlete things, like run for TDs. But this does not an offense make.

The key stat, if you believe that Stanford can win this game--I do not, sadly--is yards per carry. The Stanford running backs have 14 carries for 47 yards, which is a not-even-mediocre 3.4 yards per carry. Stanford must get that number up around 5.0 for the second half to really have a chance.

My eyes see a good BC offense that's had couple of bad plays, and a bad Stanford offense that's had a couple of good plays. I think the moral victory is this offense getting to 30 points (which I would not bet on). But, we shall see.

[needle]

Tafiti, Stanford's almost-a-star DE, in street clothes. Fattig on the OL goes down, obviously will not return.

And yet..

Full credit to the opportunistic Stanford defense for being, uhh.. opportunistic, again keeping the team in the game when the offense is not exactly marching the ball down the field.

I'm glad that Gulbranson is having a good game. He clearly is able to roll to his right and deliver an accurate ball. Roush is just a very good athlete, so he definitely can do very-good-athlete things, like run for TDs. But this does not an offense make.

The key stat, if you believe that Stanford can win this game--I do not, sadly--is yards per carry. The Stanford running backs have 14 carries for 47 yards, which is a not-even-mediocre 3.4 yards per carry. Stanford must get that number up around 5.0 for the second half to really have a chance.

My eyes see a good BC offense that's had couple of bad plays, and a bad Stanford offense that's had a couple of good plays. I think the moral victory is this offense getting to 30 points (which I would not bet on). But, we shall see.