STANFORD, Calif. — Colorado coach Karl Dorrell made sure to issue the warning when the week began: Stanford is a different team than the Cardinal of 2019.
"It's not the same Stanford team you saw last year," Dorrell said of a Stanford team that dropped a 16-13 decision in Boulder last November. "It's a new and improved team. We have our hands full in terms of what we did last week and moving forward into this week."
Dorrell no doubt has been stressing that same point to his Buffaloes all week. Last year's 4-8 Stanford finish — the first losing season in head coach David Shaw's 10-year tenure — was likely an aberration, not the beginning of a trend.