Stanford football (3-5, 2-3 ACC) showed early promise but couldn\u2019t sustain its first-half momentum in a 42-7 loss to No. 9 University of Miami (6-1, 2-1 ACC) Saturday afternoon. The defeat, caused by two turnovers and special teams breakdowns, continues the Cardinal\u2019s away game losing streak this season. <\/p>\n
Miami opened the game with a strong first drive, marching to the Stanford 25-yard line before the Cardinal defense stumped the Hurricanes, forcing a missed field goal attempt. Capitalizing on this early stop, Stanford led an aggressive response. On fourth-and-one at midfield, the Cardinal converted on a tough run to the outside, and redshirt freshman running back Cole Tabb rushed 28 yards to place Stanford deep in Miami territory at its own 19-yard line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With 4:43 left in the first quarter, redshirt senior quarterback Ben Gulbranson connected with junior wide receiver Caden High for a 19-yard touchdown, giving the Cardinal the lone score of the day and an early 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The Cardinal defense continued to hold firm, forcing punts on Miami\u2019s next two possessions. With just over a minute left in the half, the Hurricanes completed a five-yard passing touchdown to tie the game 7-7 heading into halftime.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur defense the last few games against some really good offenses has come out early and stifled offenses,\u201d head coach Frank Reich said.<\/p>\n
Stanford\u2019s defensive pressure faded after the break. Miami returned the first punt of the second half 45 yards, setting up a short touchdown drive that put the Hurricanes ahead, 14-7. <\/p>\n
On Stanford\u2019s next possession, Gulbranson\u2019s pass under pressure at the Cardinal\u2019s 30-yard line was intercepted and returned inside the five-yard line, leading to another Miami rushing touchdown and a 21-7 deficit. A second interception on the following drive gave the Hurricanes another short field in Cardinal territory, and Miami capitalized again to make it 28-7.<\/p>\n
Stanford benched Gulbranson midway through the final quarter in favor of redshirt freshman Elijah Brown, who went 3-of-5 for 39 yards. Gulbranson finished 9-of-21 for 50 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions.<\/p>\n
Miami continued to dominate, closing out the game in a 42-7 win over Stanford.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c[Miami] got after us, they got after us real good in the second half and gave it to us,\u201d Reich said following the game.<\/p>\n
Despite the team falling to 0-4 on the road, Reich remained optimistic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to go back to work and find ways to get better and enjoy the process,\u201d Reich said.<\/p>\n
Stanford will return home next weekend looking to snap its two-game losing streak. Kickoff against the Pittsburgh Panthers (6-2, 4-1 ACC) is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. on Saturday at Stanford Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stanford football (3-5, 2-3 ACC) showed early promise but couldn\u2019t sustain its first-half momentum in a 42-7 loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4028,16002,17044,17045,17046,57,17047,123,125,124,6815,17048],"class_list":["post-21864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-acc","tag-ben-gulbranson","tag-cardinal","tag-cole-tabb","tag-elijah-brown","tag-football","tag-frank-reich","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-stanford","tag-stanford-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21864","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=21864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}