STANFORD, Calif. -- Don't call it chaos, but it's fair to say that Stanford's offense was in a rather agitated place entering the Cardinal's game-winning touchdown drive at UCLA last week. David Shaw doesn't even recall what he told quarterback Ryan Burns on the sideline.
"Somebody told me that I said, 'Go win the game,'" Shaw said. "But I really have no idea."
The Stanford coach was too busy scrambling to remember. The Bruins led 13-9, having bloodied Stanford over the first 58 minutes of play. They'd held the Cardinal out of the end zone and they'd knocked Francis Owusu -- who had taken all of Stanford's practice repetitions at a receiver position that was key in the team's two-minute offense -- out of the game.