If it sounds cliché, and a bit monotonous, to say we throw the record books out when these two team get together, well...you'd be right. Because it's not a rivalry built upon decades of hatred; these team are not bound together by geography, forced to wallow insufferably in a made-up Territorial Cup; they don't even have a stand-alone moment, one in which they are tethered together for.
Instead, Oregon and Stanford clash in a game that is built upon mutual respect and dominance. So, the records very much matter.
"We have a tremendous amount of respect for Oregon and I believe they have the same for us," Stanford coach David Shaw said.