Notre Dame Vs Stanford Predictions
Both of these teams are spiraling downward. We all know about ND, but what happened to Stanford? A lot of guys graduated including their starting QB and 3 OL.
Now they lost to injury All American RB McCaffrey, at least for this game. It’s really hard to get a feel for Stanford for they started out great before losing their last 2 games:
- W 26-13 vs. Kansas State
- W 27-10 vs. USC
- W 22-13 vs. UCLA
- L 44-6 vs. Washington
- L 42-16 vs. Washington State
With a rebuilt OL and new QB they are just not the dominant team of the last several years with prolific offenses and staunch defenses. Outside of 2 very good DL Solomon Thomas 6’3″ 275 and Harrison Phillips 6’4″ 290 Stanford hasn’t a lot to offer. These 2 guys will give ND’s OL a good workout especially Thomas who’s averaging a sack per game.
So this will favor ND since this is not the old Stanford and if Kizer is on and the play calling is somewhat competent, ND could roll these guys.
ND’s play calling is atrocious despite having Kelly, Denbrock, Sanford and now Jeff Quinn contributing. Quinn moved from analyst to asst. strength coach (so he can coach on the field) and has a ton of experience including OC for Kelly at Cinncy. He also was HC at Buffalo and fired but no one wins at Buffalo.
If ND can give Kizer time he puts up 45 points while the D surrenders 27.
Notre Dame 45 Stanford 27