It's commonly said that Johnny Dawkins inherited a bare cupboard of talent at Stanford. But how much talent did he really have upon arrival at The Farm? We ask the numbers.

After taking the NIT crown, Stanford returns most of its top talent and has 2 top-100 recruits, Rosco Allen and Grant Verhoven, coming to The Farm. The team has not had this much talent since at least 2008. But how much impact can Cardinal fans expect from the much-hyped rookies?

After 60 minutes of football largely controlled by the Card, Stanford dropped a 41-38 overtime decision to the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the 2012 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Without further ado, here are your final Quick Reads of the 2011 season.

An email from our friends at ticket resale analyst TiqIq points out a great opportunity for Stanford fans to get last-minute tickets for the Fiesta Bowl.

Stanford's second consecutive BCS bowl likely won't be another 28-point blowout. Oklahoma State will give Stanford a much harder fight than Virginia Tech did last January, and OSU is arguably the best team on Stanford's 2011 schedule.

fter a season of college football, seemingly interminable hype regarding the BCS and the calendar’s flip to from November to December, we finally know for sure that Stanford football will be heading to Glendale, Arizona to face #3 Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl. The month of December will provide ample opportunity for game previews, [...]

Stanford likely solidified its place in a BCS bowl, knocked off a quasi-rival and gave Andrew Luck his final Heisman Trophy show-off platform in a fairly straight-forward victory over Notre Dame. The 28-14 Cardinal win ends the team's regular season, albeit without assurance of what the postseason will bring.

Little about Stanford's victory in the 114th playing of Big Game will inspire much confidence in the Cardinal. But in putting away Cal in a surprisingly close 31-28 tilt, Stanford keeps the Axe on the Farm and lives to fight another BCS week. Here are your Big Game Quick Reads.

Recently, Dan Grunfeld '06 signed a new deal in the Israel Basketball Super League with Hapoel Jerusalem. He's been playing professionally for varying foreign leagues since 2006. Before playing professionally, he played at Stanford from 2002-2006. This is my interview with Dan.

Stanford doesn't enter the 114th playing of Big Game the way it wanted to: that much is certain. But even with the Oregon loss likely looming large in the minds and emotions of the players, Cardinal coaching staff and certainly the fans, Stanford could potentially still nab a BCS bowl berth at season's end.

For all the hype about Saturday night's primetime game in Stanford Stadium, everything came down to one key distinction: Oregon was simply, and obviously, the better team in its 53-30 drubbing of Stanford. The Ducks' win levels the teams' overall records at 9-1 but gives Oregon a perfect 7-0 conference record while Stanford slips to 7-1 in the Pac-12.

Big Game might still be over a week away, but there's little doubt that the biggest game of Stanford's regular season will happen this Saturday in Stanford Stadium. Oregon comes into town as the only legitimate challenger to Stanford's berth in the inaugural Pac-12 championship game, the #7 team in the country and the last team to beat the Card.

For the biggest game of the season, we got a hold of Patrick Malee of the Oregon Daily Emerald to get an inside take on the Ducks. Enjoy this week's installment of Campus Questions.

This story is awfully familiar: Stanford shook off a poor opening half to finish strong and extend the longest active winning streak in college football. Even with the 38-13 win over Oregon State in Corvallis, not everything came up roses for the Card, which increasingly seem to be facing stiffer challenges to winning out and earning a berth in the Rose Bowl or the national championship game.

Stanford is 8-0 with 2/3 of the regular season through, is ranked fourth in the country in the AP poll and the BCS (and 3rd in the coaches' poll) and has a realistic shot at winning a berth in the national championship game. But for all of those reasons, some people are worried about Stanford's trip to Corvallis this weekend.

To get a better idea of what's happening on the football fields of Corvallis, we reached out to Andy Wooldridge of BuildingTheDam.com, SB Nation's Oregon State blog. Andy provides the scoop on Beaver football and what to expect on Saturday in Reser Stadium.

Andrew Luck is without a doubt the Heisman favorite and Stanford is still undefeated. Catch up with Saturday night's instant classic by reading Stanford-USC Quick Reads.

Cam from ABC's Modern Family disagrees, but the country's most colorful college football picker is going with Stanford tonight. Check out the video from ESPN's College Gameday outside of the LA Coliseum this morning.

Stanford has entered the difficult half of its 2011 football schedule, and USC should be the most talented adversary the Card face until Oregon comes to Palo Alto in a couple of weeks. Regardless of who wins on Saturday in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the evening will be a test by which both teams will be able to judge how high to aim in the home stretch of the fall.

Stanford and Southern California have been playing each other for an awfully long time, but we wanted to the skinny on this year's team from a writer that covers the Trojans every day. Michael Katz of The Daily Trojan, USC's student newspaper, was kind enough to answer questions about USC, game plans and how Saturday's game will end up.