Pregame Reading
So, here it is. Two universities named for 19th-century railroad barons will at long last meet on the football field as the Cardinal of Leland Stanford Junior University come to Vanderbilt Stadium for tonight’s matchup with our Vanderbilt Commodores.
Like Vanderbilt, Stanford looked extremely shaky in Week 1 in a 24-7 loss to Kansas State (which is the same as a 23-3 loss to ETSU, don’t question me on this) before recovering to win in Week 2. In Stanford’s case, it was a blasting of USC that wasn’t as close as the 42-28 final score looks: the Cardinal had the Trojans down 42-13 in the fourth quarter before USC scored a couple of garbage time touchdowns to make the final score look respectable.