Stanford took advantage of numerous Arizona miscues, capitalizing on 5 Wildcat turnovers for 13 points, and rolling up 195 yards total offense and 11 first downs in a scintillating 20-16 victory in Tucson on Saturday. After the Wildcats took the opening kickoff and drove 80 yards in 13 plays to take a 7-0 lead, the Cardinal defense really stepped it up, recovering three Arizona fumbles and intercepting Wildcat quarterback Richard Kovalcheck twice.
The win was the Cardinal's second road win in as many weeks and gives them a 2-1 mark since the tough early season loss to Northern California rival UC Davis. More importantly, the Cardinal (3-2, 2-1) are only one game behind Pac10 conference leaders USC and UCLA, with games remaining against all of the teams that are either ahead of them or tied, except Oregon.
I'm thinking that if Stanford can run the rest of conference table against ASU, UCLA, USC, OSU and KAL, and then beat traditional rival Notre Dame in the last game of the season, they might have a chance of cracking the Top 20.
Stanford Keeps Rolling
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Stanford Keeps Rolling
Last edited by Mikey on Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:53 pm, edited 3 times in total.
Walt Harris is a great coach. He's not a pussy - not even a bit. He deeply understands Defense and the running game. UC Davis will be surprising some folks this year.
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Re: Stanford Keeps Rolling
I laughed. Well done Mikey.Mikey wrote:Stanford took advantage of numerous Arizona miscues, capitalizing on 5 Wildcat turnovers for 13 points, and rolling up 195 yards total offense and 11 first downs in a scintillating 20-16 victory in Tucson on Saturday. After the Wildcats took the opening kickoff and drove 80 yards in 13 plays to take a 7-0 lead, the Cardinal defense really stepped it up, recovering three Arizona fumbles and intercepting Wildcat quarterback Richard Kovalcheck twice.
The win was the Cardinal's second road win in as many weeks and gives them a 2-1 mark since the tough early season loss to Northern California rival UC Davis. More importantly, the Cardinal (3-2, 2-1) are only one game behind Pac10 conference leaders USC and UCLA, with games remaining against all of the teams that are either ahead of them or tied, except Oregon.
I'm thinking that if Stanford can run the rest of conference table against ASU, UCLA, USC, OSU and KAL, and then beat traditional rival Notre Dame in the last game of the season, they might have a chance of cracking the Top 20.
FIGHT ON!