I believe we lost to Stanford for numerous reasons
#1 we lost B Williams to a freak injury the day before. And all the other injuries we had
#2 we lost coach Moorhead to the hospital before the game.
#3 we lost our center Forsyth in warm ups which meant we had to jumble our OL again but never used in a game before.
#4 we hadn't played on the road since our huge unbelievable win at tOSU and were not focused for 1st half of the game where we fell behind 17/7, because of all of the above.
#5 our defense came out and shut the Cardinals down totally and our Offense clawed its way back and then we lose CJ Verdel again for the third year in a row. (They had been trying to protect him all season so this wouldn't happen because we all know without him we would be in trouble)
#5 we take the lead and stop them 1 more time with 3 minutes remaining and our driving the ball to close the game out when we get a holding and offside penalty. We punt to them they end up at their 4 yard line with 1 minute and have to score a TD to tie. They were given a 4% chance. Then our nemesis the Pac refs gave them the game.
Remember these are just kids sometimes things don't work out.