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What was the year Stanford lost at Utah in horrible end game (2 passes when we had run it to the doorstep)?

My recollection is that if Stanford had won that game then they would have made the championship game (or Top 4).

Maybe. There is no way to tell for sure.

That was the 2013 season. We had two losses that year during the regular season, at Utah and at the Coliseum on a last minute FG.
That was the final year of the BCS Championship Game, which featured one loss Auburn against undefeated FSU.

Auburn had lost early to LSU (LSU ranked #6). Stanford had remained above Auburn as the highest rated 1 loss team until racking up the second loss to $C. One might assume that Stanford could have remained above Auburn had that $C loss been the first of the season. But Auburn finished with the dramatic win over #1 Alabama and then a pretty big win over #5 Mizzou in the SEC championship game. That was a stronger finish than Stanford's over an unranked und then over #11 ASU in the conference championship.

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What was the year Stanford lost at Utah in horrible end game (2 passes when we had run it to the doorstep)?

My recollection is that if Stanford had won that game then they would have made the championship game (or Top 4).

Maybe. There is no way to tell for sure.

That was the 2013 season. We had two losses that year during the regular season, at Utah and at the Coliseum on a last minute FG.
That was the final year of the BCS Championship Game, which featured one loss Auburn against undefeated FSU.

Auburn had lost early to LSU (LSU ranked #6). Stanford had remained above Auburn as the highest rated 1 loss team until racking up the second loss to $C. One might assume that Stanford could have remained above Auburn had that $C loss been the first of the season. But Auburn finished with the dramatic win over #1 Alabama and then a pretty big win over #5 Mizzou in the SEC championship game. That was a stronger finish than Stanford's over an unranked und then over #11 ASU in the conference championship.