[Farm93]

College football is cyclical.  UC was up, Stanford was down; now it is the opposite ; in the not too distant future it will reverse; then it will reverse again, etc. etc. etc. 

OK!  ;)

If the game was in 2019, I would agree that you never know.  However, this game is scheduled for 2014.  I suspect that the reversal you hope will occur in the not too distant future is not quite that close.  More importantly crowd support tends to lag the field performance, so in terms of optimal Stanford crowd support the timing is really ideal, from a Stanford point of view.

FWIW - The novelty I am not eager to experience is the idea that we will all have to use those new NFL clear plastic baggies.

[Farm93]

College football is cyclical.  UC was up, Stanford was down; now it is the opposite ; in the not too distant future it will reverse; then it will reverse again, etc. etc. etc. 

OK!  ;)

If the game was in 2019, I would agree that you never know.  However, this game is scheduled for 2014.  I suspect that the reversal you hope will occur in the not too distant future is not quite that close.  More importantly crowd support tends to lag the field performance, so in terms of optimal Stanford crowd support the timing is really ideal, from a Stanford point of view.

FWIW - The novelty I am not eager to experience is the idea that we will all have to use those new NFL clear plastic baggies.