It’s easy to make a defense for the Stanford Cardinal. They won an important road game this past weekend without their best player. A healthy return of former Heisman Trophy runner-up Christian McCaffrey could help provide a kickstart to boost this team through the end of the season. But that rose-colored picture of Stanford’s season ignores the problems this team is having.
The Stanford offense against Notre Dame was obviously poor without McCaffrey there to carry the load, but let’s not forget that it has also been bad with him in there. Against the Washington Huskies in week four, McCaffrey was bottled up, accumulating only 49 yards.