After consecutive #50Burgers by the WSU offense and the emergence of the Cougar running game, I’m feeling pretty excited about this team again. They head to The Farm to take on a 15th-ranked Stanford squad coming off of its worst loss of the David Shaw era. Stanford is a proud program and this game still poses a lot of challenges for WSU, but digging into the some of the stats uncovered some areas where the Cardinal are struggling and hopefully the Cougs can take advantage.
From 2012-2015 the Stanford defense finished either first or second in the Pac-12 in opponent third down conversion percentage; their opponents converted a third down on just 34 percent of their attempts over that time frame.