The entire Stanford football season has been building to this. Next Saturday, the Cardinal will be back on the road, taking on the Virginia Tech Hokies, in a game that may very well end up determining if they are bowl eligible when the season ends.
Stanford comes into the matchup at 4-5 after staying with Louisville through the first half and even tying the game on its first possession after halftime, but the Cardinals flew away with the game in the second half.
Still, it was a better showing than we'd seen from Stanford on the road previously with a final of 52-24. The Cardinal had been outscored 150-17 in its first three road matchups, so it was still giving up way too many points, but at least the offense came to play.
Virginia Tech had been receiving votes to be ranked in recent weeks, sitting at 6-2 entering the weekend, but they were just blown out by SMU 51-28 on Saturday and have also lost to a hot-and-cold Cal program this season. They have the wins to make a bowl game, but they don't have a season-defining win that is bigger than Stanford.
Tech's defense ranks 7th in the ACC in yards allowed per game (340) with a stingy 5th-ranked run defense (107.3 yards per game) and th...