[JohnR34231]

JPRI,

This is sports fandom here, one of the greatest forums to develop and test your hypotheses that there is.  Mine is Stanford will have a Top 10 defense in the country, based on the UCD performance.

But just so I'm not accused of being a Pollyanna, it does seem there might be cause for concern about the running game.  A 4.7 YPC avg. against UCD is awful for a top team.  Inexcusable, frankly.  Barry Sanders had the best rushing performance (same carries as Young for more yards) and no Stanford RB had a real long run.  Look at Georgia against Clemson for contrast.  The OL should get better for sure, but I'm just not a fan of Kelsey Young as a starting RB, and if you can't run well against UCD, how will you do against real defenses like next week?

Hey, I realize that this is sports fandom (not physics or chemistry) and jumping to conclusions (or at least forming hypotheses) based on limited data is part of the fun.
Hope you're right on the defense. Time will tell.
Since we are forming hypotheses, mine is that the offense will live or die on Hogan's arm and the passing attack this year. Hopefully we will run well enough to keep the defense honest.

[JohnR34231]

JPRI,

This is sports fandom here, one of the greatest forums to develop and test your hypotheses that there is.  Mine is Stanford will have a Top 10 defense in the country, based on the UCD performance.

But just so I'm not accused of being a Pollyanna, it does seem there might be cause for concern about the running game.  A 4.7 YPC avg. against UCD is awful for a top team.  Inexcusable, frankly.  Barry Sanders had the best rushing performance (same carries as Young for more yards) and no Stanford RB had a real long run.  Look at Georgia against Clemson for contrast.  The OL should get better for sure, but I'm just not a fan of Kelsey Young as a starting RB, and if you can't run well against UCD, how will you do against real defenses like next week?

Hey, I realize that this is sports fandom (not physics or chemistry) and jumping to conclusions (or at least forming hypotheses) based on limited data is part of the fun.
Hope you're right on the defense. Time will tell.
Since we are forming hypotheses, mine is that the offense will live or die on Hogan's arm and the passing attack this year. Hopefully we will run well enough to keep the defense honest.