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How Valuable Are Top 100 Recruits?

After taking the NIT crown, Stanford returns most of its top talent and has 2 top-100 recruits, Rosco Allen and Grant Verhoven, coming to The Farm. The team has not had this much talent since at least 2008. But how much impact can Cardinal fans expect from the much-hyped rookies?

Quick Reads: Stanford-Oklahoma State

After 60 minutes of football largely controlled by the Card, Stanford dropped a 41-38 overtime decision to the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the 2012 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Without further ado, here are your final Quick Reads of the 2011 season.

Special Fiesta Bowl Ticket Deal

An email from our friends at ticket resale analyst TiqIq points out a great opportunity for Stanford fans to get last-minute tickets for the Fiesta Bowl.

Predicting Stanford-Oklahoma State: Fiesta Bowl Edition

Stanford’s second consecutive BCS bowl likely won’t be another 28-point blowout. Oklahoma State will give Stanford a much harder fight than Virginia Tech did last January, and OSU is arguably the best team on Stanford’s 2011 schedule.

Fiesta It Is

After a season of college football, seemingly interminable hype regarding the BCS and the calendar’s flip to from November to December, we finally know for sure that Stanford football will be heading to Glendale, Arizona to face #3 Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl.