[OutsiderFan]

At least you have a bye.  California gets to play 12 straight weeks.  Nobody is going to hold up the football schedule so Stanford students can come to campus.  Besides, are Duke and San Jose State hot tickets?  USC is and that game will sell even if the students aren't there, and perhaps that could be  magnet to get students to show up sooner than they would for say Washington State.

Anyway, don't sleep on playing USC at home so early.  USC is historically terrible in its first OOC road game.  And then you have a bye after USC to get ready to play Washington the following Thursday.  So you get 12 days off after USC to prepare for UW, and then you get nine days off before the next game at home against Arizona. 

Look a little deeper.  The schedule isn't that bad for Stanford.

[OutsiderFan]

At least you have a bye.  California gets to play 12 straight weeks.  Nobody is going to hold up the football schedule so Stanford students can come to campus.  Besides, are Duke and San Jose State hot tickets?  USC is and that game will sell even if the students aren't there, and perhaps that could be  magnet to get students to show up sooner than they would for say Washington State.

Anyway, don't sleep on playing USC at home so early.  USC is historically terrible in its first OOC road game.  And then you have a bye after USC to get ready to play Washington the following Thursday.  So you get 12 days off after USC to prepare for UW, and then you get nine days off before the next game at home against Arizona. 

Look a little deeper.  The schedule isn't that bad for Stanford.