A look back at the Cardinal’s five best opening game performances from the past few seasons.
With Stanford's season opener against Northwestern quickly approaching, it is likely many of the question marks surrounding the 21st-ranked Cardinal will be answered Saturday morning. As David Shaw recently explained, the lack of preseason games makes certain aspects of every team almost a complete unknown to even to their own coaching staffs until midway through the first contests. In recent years, opening games have revealed more good than bad for the Cardinal, as Stanford has compiled a 7-0 record with an average 27-point margin of victory.