2009 Thought Process - A Referendum
In 2009 with Michigan coming off 4 straight losses and a 1-6 conference record, Rich Rodriguez was looking at the Ohio State game and turtling. Tate Forcier would end up throwing 4 INTs in The Game. The next year Jim Harbaugh's Stanford sits with a 12-1 record including a dominating Andrew Luck-driven win shutting down the football program at Virginia Tech. Richard Sherman, Doug Baldwin, Zach Ertz, Coby Fleener, and Owen Marecic among others have words for the entire country that Stanford is legitimate.
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