The Stanford Cardinal lost to the USC Trojans Saturday night 42-24 snapping the Cardinal’s three game winning streak against the Trojans. Stanford was held to just 170 rushing yards as a team. 75 of those 170 came on one touchdown run from Bryce Love. Outside of that run Stanford rushed for fewer than 100 yards for the game. The Trojans gained over 600 total yards in the game a whopping 307 of which were rushing yards. The Trojans also won the time of possession battle 34:35 to Stanford 25:25.
Stanford could not run the ball well, did not dominate the time of possession and could not stop the run and the Cardinal only had one sack.