PASADENA – It looked like Stanford won Saturday night’s game against UCLA in the 59th and 60th minute, but not really.
Stanford won it during the last five wins over the Bruins, when it rolled to the Rose Bowl victory over Iowa, when it won two Pac-12 championship games with David Shaw coaching. It won it because winning is a habit. As is losing.
“It comes down to trust,” said Shaw, the coach who plays button-down football in an untucked time, the guy who punted on fourth-and-one from Stanford’s own 39 with 4:40 left, trailing 13-9.
The Cardinal had all three timeouts left and used them as they stopped Josh Rosen and the Bruins.