When a quarterback and wide receiver make a special connection it turns into a hot knife looking for butter. Stanford has that pairing in Ashton Daniels and Elic Ayomanor. We direct you to the Colorado game for reference. Coach Troy Taylor is in his second season and though the pantry is a bit bare a quick look at the Rivals recruiting charts from 2023 to 2025 says that won't always be the case.

The first year in the ACC won't be a cakewalk for Stanford as they adjust to the new opponents, travel and somewhat nasty front half of the season's schedule.

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Special guest, the publisher of CardinalSportsReport.com, Ben Parker joins Will and Jim to preview the Cardinal and look at the 30,000 foot view of the upcoming football season. Short term it's going to be a rough start. Long term, this is a team that will begin to work it's way up the pecking order if they're anything like the majority of the teams in their athletic department.

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What areas need improving? Is Coach Taylor moving the team in a direction that should excite fans? Parker shares his thoughts on the team and the schedule in this debut ACC football preview for the Stanford Cardinal.

We did our best to pin Parker, a Cal grad, on who will take the Stanford-Cal Week 13 matchup and he delivered his best Muhammad Ali imitation. ACC fans, you'll want to follow Ben on X and subscribe to his page to keep up with Stanford.

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