{"id":20154,"date":"2025-10-25T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/20154\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:53:08","slug":"what-to-know-before-stanford-kicks-off-at-no-9-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/20154\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know before Stanford kicks off at No. 9 Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/10\/24\/stanford-cardinal-underdog-upset-miami-usc-harbaugh-reich\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">STANFORD AT NO. 9 MIAMI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Records: Stanford (3-4, 2-2 ACC); Miami (5-1, 1-1 ACC)<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff:\u00a04 p.m. at Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens<\/p>\n<p>TV:\u00a0ESPN<\/p>\n<p>Radio:\u00a0KNBR 1050 AM<\/p>\n<p>Series history: This is the first meeting between the schools. Stanford won the 2011 Orange Bowl over Virginia Tech at Hard Rock Stadium. Saturday is the first time Stanford has played in a current NFL stadium since the 2021 season opener against Kansas State at AT&amp;T Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford storylines: Stanford has already matched its win total in each of the past four seasons, but has yet to win on the road or against a ranked team \u2013 it previously lost 27-3 at No. 11 BYU and 48-20 at No. 16 Virginia. \u2026 QB Ben Gulbranson is probable after injuring his knee last week, but Micah Ford (425 rushing yards, most by a Stanford running back since 2020) is definitely out.<\/p>\n<p>Miami storylines:\u00a0Miami was ranked No. 2 entering last week after wins against Notre Dame and South Florida, but is coming off its first loss of the season, a 24-21 defeat at home to Louisville in which Carson Beck threw four interceptions. \u2026 The Hurricanes were led by freshman WR Malachi Toney, who had nine catches for a team-high 135 yards, a 12-yard touchdown run and also threw a 2-point conversion pass.<\/p>\n<p>Stats that matter:\u00a0Beck led Georgia to the College Football Playoff last season and is 29-4 as a starter. \u2026 Stanford\u2019s offense is averaging 391 yards and 26.7 points at home, compared to just 280.3 yards and 13.3 points on the road. \u2026 Led by projected Top 10 draft pick Rueben Bane on the line, Miami\u2019s defense ranks 13th nationally in points allowed (15.3) and 15th in yards allowed (291.5). \u2026 Stanford has lost its last nine road games against AP Top 25 opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0HAROLD\u00a0GUTMANN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STANFORD AT NO. 9 MIAMI Records: Stanford (3-4, 2-2 ACC); Miami (5-1, 1-1 ACC) Kickoff:\u00a04 p.m. at Hard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3607,9636,4535,111,143,9635,114,266,123,125,124,9637,16280,9638,9639,110,6815,6756,6816],"class_list":["post-20154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-acc-football","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-college-sports","tag-college-football","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-palo-alto","tag-peninsula","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-sports","tag-stanford","tag-stanford-cardinal","tag-stanford-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}