When you think of Stanford football or Washington football, you don’t put them together like you would Stanford/Cal or Washington/Oregon. Yet with all of these other rivalries Stanford and Washington have played 86 times and both have won 41 games with 4 ties. Both sides have gone a decade without losing to the other team and this Friday, the winner will not only break the tie in this series but push themselves as the true contenders not only for the Pac-12 but for a College Football Playoff run.
Stanford and Washington both have had 15 conference titles and maybe one of the reasons why this hasn’t been considered a rivalry is because in those 30 combined conference titles, only 5 of those had Stanford and Washington one and two in the standings.