2006 Stanford Cardinal Football Preview

Welcome to Maddux's 2006 Stanford Cardinal season preview. As usual we have taken the time to break down the team, while providing information about the university, and the 2006 Stanford Cardinal Football Schedule. If you are wagering on college football this season consider using Maddux Sports' College football picks for the added edge over the sportsbooks in 2006. In addition be sure to bookmark our free college football lines service for the upcoming season.

Coach: Walt Harris (2nd year at Stanford)
Team Name: Cardinal
2005 Overall Record: 5-6
2005 Pac 10 Conference Record 4-4
Returning Starters: 16

The Cardinals pass a lot, which is good and bad. They feature gifted QB Trent Edwards (62.7 COMP% in 2005), who this season will see some consistently open targets to hit in Evan Moore (returning after missing last year due to an injury) and Mark Bradford (37 REC, 609 YDS. 6 TDs).

But Stanford’s offensive line has been sieve-like, which has been tough on Edwards and the running game. Most of the OL starters are back, hopefully their poor play will not be.

In 2005 no Stanford runner gained more than a total of 250 yards. Athletic Anthony Kimble, who’s a converted receiver, returns to the backfield with experience and more confidence, while first-year player Toby Gehart will hit the field running.

The fine linebacking unit returns intact. With Michael Okwo and Mike Silva possessing talent-plus, this part of the defense will be sound. They’ll need to be since the front line is in a rebuilding year.

Three of the secondary’s starters are back, but they will need to show improvement, while whoever fills the now vacant second corner position will have their hands full.

This year’s contest against Notre Dame looks like an impossible match-up for the Cardinals, while games against Navy, Washington State, Washington, and Oregon State will determine if this club can win more than one game in 2006.

Stanford Cardinal 2006 Schedule

Date	Opponent	Home/Road
Sep 2	Oregon	Road
Sep 9	San Jose State	Road
Sep 16	Navy	Home
Sep 23	Washington State	Home
Sep 30	UCLA	Road
Oct 7	Notre Dame	Road
Oct 14	Arizona	Home
Oct 21	Arizona State	Road
Nov 4	USC	Home
Nov 11	Washington	Road
Nov 18	Oregon State	Home
Dec 2	California	Road

 

For more data on the 2006 Stanford football program, view the Cardinal team website or scroll down below to read up on the rest of the Pac 10 competition.