It’s not going to be easy. In fact, it’s been named by just about everybody as one of the toughest schedules in the nation. The first six games of the schedule:
- Northwestern
- at USC
- at UCF
- Oregon
- Washington
Sure, three of those games are at home, and getting Oregon State on the road might be good luck, but overall it’s pretty daunting. If Stanford starts slow, it could be 2-4 and totally out of the Pac-12 conference race by the first weekend in October.