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David Shaw, Stanford bullish about carrying over good feelings

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  • David Lombardi, ESPN Staff Writer Close
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BURBANK, Calif. -- There was a moment after Stanford's gut-wrenching 20-17 double overtime loss to Utah in which coach David Shaw thought it was all falling apart.

The Cardinal, a team that had been to four consecutive BCS bowl games, had just lost its fifth game of the 2014 season, and the rumbles of a player's expletive-laden postgame speech shook through the walls to the room where the coach was holding his press conference.