Card Clicks: Grant Verhoeven Picks Stanford

by Scott Allen on Oct 13, 2025 6:30 AM PDT

Johnny Dawkins has done it again. Highly touted power forward Grant Verhoeven announced Wednesday that he'll attend Stanford over Cal and St. Mary's. | Visalia Times-Delta

Jack Blanchat projects the odds that each of the remaining 13 undefeated teams will stay that way. Boise State: 100 percent. | The Stanford Daily

Another look at the path to perfection. | Pre-Snap Read

It's early, but we appear headed for the biggest BCS controversy since 2004. Two undefeated teams from major conferences could realistically be left out. | SI.com

Stanford likely needs some help to crash the BCS title game party. | SB Nation

Washington State quarterback Jeff Tuel was cleared to play Saturday after suffering a broken clavicle earlier this season. | Coug Center

Freshman Chioma Ubogagu was named the Pac-12 Women's Soccer Player of the Week. | The Stanford Daily

Grading the defense after allowing one touchdown to Colorado. | Go Mighty Card

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Notre Dame

“If the Irish keep improving as they have, there may not be a team in the country who could beat them in late November.”

I’m growing tired of the hyperbole around Notre Dame. Yes they are improved but they are hardly anywhere near the best the team in the country

by dblecard on Oct 13, 2025 12:33 PM PDT reply actions

That seemed a little over the top to me, too.

So they hung 38 points on Purdue and 59 points on Air Force…

by Scott Allen on Oct 13, 2025 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions

As odd as it sounds, the USC-ND game next weekend may actually tell us a lot about both Notre Dame and USC. As much as it pains me to say it, I’d rather USC win that game. If the Trojans pull out a win in South Bend, I’d say it would give Stanford much more confidence heading into late November. Also, if SC wins, they head into the game against Stanford with a win as opposed to a loss with the prospect of losing two in a row to two highly disliked teams.

If Notre Dame wins, well then everyone just has to cross their fingers and hope for the best.

by RedOscar on Oct 13, 2025 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions

Given that they're not playing for much...

I could see a loss to ND breaking the Trojans, but I could see it firing them up too.

We have to root for Oregon against ASU, right? Even if the Ducks lost, they’d control their own destiny in the North.

by Scott Allen on Oct 13, 2025 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions

In any case,

Assuming the Sun Devils, Ducks, and Cardinal don’t lose another conference game (except those between them), ASU hosts the championship game if they win Saturday and Stanford loses against Oregon. Oregon hosts if they win against both Stanford and ASU. Stanford hosts if they win against Oregon.

So while the Ducks control their own destiny in the North, they have to win two games in order to host the conference championship while Stanford only needs to win one and ASU needs to win one and hope another loses.

by RedOscar on Oct 13, 2025 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions

i agree RedOscar. I am watching both those games intently for what it may imply about our matchup against both teams

by dblecard on Oct 13, 2025 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions

If somehow we made it through undefeated ...

And if Wisconsin did too, I couldn’t get too upset about being in the Rose Bowl instead of the national championship game. There would be a fair argument that it WAS the national championship game. After watching the second half of Cal/Oregon, it’s pretty scary to get through that game.

by Gus Zernial on Oct 13, 2025 2:20 PM PDT reply actions

Yes Oregon will be tough….but our defense I think is much better than the weenies

by dblecard on Oct 13, 2025 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions

Not to mention

the Cardinal OFFENSE is better than Cal’s (at least at the QB position…and TE…and OL…and RB…and so forth), so presumably the Dux will have fewer opportunities to score against Stanford than they did against Cal simply because they won’t be getting the ball back as often…one hopes.

by Cardinal&Orange; on Oct 13, 2025 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions