Stanford Cardinal

David Shaw was so excited that he raised both arms into the air over on the sideline, a winner in Stanford’s bowl game. After shaking hands with Wisconsin’s legendary coach Barry Alvarez, he walked triumphantly on the field to meet his parents, he hugged his mother tightly and cried in [...]

Who are the top 2013 NFL Draft prospects to watch in the first 2013 BCS bowl game between the Wisconsin Badgers and Stanford Cardinal in the 2013 Rose Bowl? Wisconsin athletic director and former coach Barry Alvarez returns to coach the Badgers as Bret Bielema left earlier this month to take the job at Arkansas. [...]

Everybody sure loves complaining around the Holidays and maybe that is because shopping for others is not that fun? I enjoy finding gifts for others and I think these five BCS bowls will end up as gifts regardless of their final scores. The experts have these five games all becoming [...]

Follow @Dan Vasta and like Gridiron Grit on Facebook Who would have thought that this matchup would be the first of two back in the preseason? The answer quite frankly would be nobody and it will come to reality if Stanford can once again come off the mat and lay some punishment out. [...]

Follow @Dan Vasta and like Gridiron Grit on Facebook Rose Bowl (Jan. 1, 5 p.m. Eastern, ESPN) Stanford Cardinal (Projected 11-2, Pac-12 Champs) vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers (Projected 11-2, Big Ten Champs) This would be quite the matchup with Big Ten against Pac-12 ruling the day, but that is because the Cardinal are one of [...]

There is a bit of a light load of heavyweight battles this weekend after we saw the likes of Alabama-LSU and Oregon-USC last weekend. Those two tilts lived up to all the hype and then some even based on preseason expectations. The Trojans were easily the worst of those four [...]

With Week 9 in the books, it’s time to reveal an updated set of rankings on the Top 25 teams in college football.  Below you will see a list of the latest standings entering Week 10, with results from Saturday’s action and movement from last week’s rankings. RELATED: [50 Things [...]

Notre Dame (5-0) hosts Stanford (4-1) at 3:30 p.m. ET on NBC in one of the marquee macthups of Week 7. Lee Corso has made it a habit in recent weeks of breaking out live animals onto the College GameDay set. That changed Saturday morning when Corso went with the [...]

The college football landscape looks a little different after several surprises unfolded last weekend. Three teams went down in the Top 10 (Florida State, LSU and Georgia), while West Virginia, South Carolina and Florida continued to climb closer to the top, rounding out the Top 5 behind the Quack Attack [...]

Is the Notre Dame Fighting Irish a legit BCS national title contender?  It’s a question that’s been on the minds of many after the team’s stellar start, in which the Irish have outscored Navy (50-10), Purdue (20-17), Michigan State (20-3), Michigan (13-6) and Miami (41-3) by 105 points combined. Ultimately, [...]