Didn't see a dedicated thread about the game so I thought I'd start one.
Stanford got a win on the islands to start the season, which is always tough to do no matter how good Hawaii is, but since then has had a rough time. They've been blown out by the two strong opponents they've faced (USC and Oregon, both in Palo Alto), lost to a good Big Sky team (Sac State, who lost Troy Taylor to Stanford in the offseason), and gave up a 4th quarter lead to Arizona at home. They did have a bye last week to prepare for CU.
On offense, Stanford is 9th in the P12 in YPG, but is nearly 70 YPG behind 8 (CU). While CU has done a much better job converting yards to points (CU is 6th in PPG at 33.0, whereas Stanford is again 9th at 19.2). Both teams have struggled on defense- CU is last in YPG and 11th in PPG, whereas Stanford is last in PPG and 11th in YPG.
Most places I've seen have the spread around CU -11.5-12.5, and the O/U around 60.
I will be interested to see what the viewership is like. This is a late kickoff on a Friday for the East Coast. Given that there is another football game on ESPN immediately before this one, it's highly likely the kickoff for CU/Stanford will be later than that. No Friday game has done better this season than last week's KSU/OSU game on ESPN with 2.25M viewers; the only game with a later kickoff time that was even close was Utah/Oregon State which got 1.34M viewers. That said, CU has yet to play in a nationally televised game this season with fewer than 7.24M viewers and got 9.3M viewers for the only other late night game they've played.
Stanford got a win on the islands to start the season, which is always tough to do no matter how good Hawaii is, but since then has had a rough time. They've been blown out by the two strong opponents they've faced (USC and Oregon, both in Palo Alto), lost to a good Big Sky team (Sac State, who lost Troy Taylor to Stanford in the offseason), and gave up a 4th quarter lead to Arizona at home. They did have a bye last week to prepare for CU.
On offense, Stanford is 9th in the P12 in YPG, but is nearly 70 YPG behind 8 (CU). While CU has done a much better job converting yards to points (CU is 6th in PPG at 33.0, whereas Stanford is again 9th at 19.2). Both teams have struggled on defense- CU is last in YPG and 11th in PPG, whereas Stanford is last in PPG and 11th in YPG.
Most places I've seen have the spread around CU -11.5-12.5, and the O/U around 60.
I will be interested to see what the viewership is like. This is a late kickoff on a Friday for the East Coast. Given that there is another football game on ESPN immediately before this one, it's highly likely the kickoff for CU/Stanford will be later than that. No Friday game has done better this season than last week's KSU/OSU game on ESPN with 2.25M viewers; the only game with a later kickoff time that was even close was Utah/Oregon State which got 1.34M viewers. That said, CU has yet to play in a nationally televised game this season with fewer than 7.24M viewers and got 9.3M viewers for the only other late night game they've played.
