Miami @ Stanford 9-4-2026 Game Thread

[mr.h]

Only 1 penalty

 

[Numb Nuts]

Fletch to Mensah in the huddle: Say bro, you know Playmaker got moms a bus, right?
Mensah: everyone knows. nobody cares.

 

[TemplarCane]

Stanford defense is selling out against the run, but I would like to see better run blocking. Maybe it’s those narrow splits. And of course, they have to gel and find what works best for them.

 

[JustAFanHTX]

Dawson looks a lot different with different QB’s. Who knew? Not me! Why would I know.

 

[clg003]

Isn’t Stanford oline running with second stringers…

 

[Gru]

Holy Toledo

 

[Silentobserver]

2 TO and 22 does Mario knew it

We get the ball to start the half; why risk it?

 

[Hold My Beer]

FYI: Toledo 20, Sparty 19 early in the 4th

 

[Tei Tenga]

Looking forward to seeing Nickel get some minutes in the 2nd half...

 

[Santana Sosa]

C'mon...we got Heismans to win....

 

[Highline17]

Such a funny team, so explosive and the opposite of the typical Mario approach. It’s amazing and such an incredible improvement from last year. Still I’m seeing too many mistakes in the trenches particularly. We all know that’s what carries in the biggest games, but i got some faith we’ll figure it out.

 

[stormsurge]

i've seen a lot that is good and the stage is set to get better. good start for the good guys.

 

[skyman]

Not sure why we are so **** stubborn with wanting to run the ball into a loaded box and clear blitzers. Stanford isn't hiding it.

Get the ball out quick in the pass game and take shots where possible

Have to establish the run.. fizical

 

[Canes1135]

Lot to clean up and we’re up 28-6. Could be worse.

 

[Bender]

It's amazing trying to hype up the crowd with a corny interlock between coach and the fans...

only to lose to Toledo. Great job on being performative as ****.

 

[Calinative]

Dawson looks a lot different with different QB’s. Who knew? Not me! Why would I know.

Thankfully a lot of 10 and 20

 

[canefan90240]

I’m still in awe at how bad Damari looked on that play, His fundamentals are garbage.

If Damari is one of our top 3 CBs, then our DB talent level has been extremely exaggerated.. he's just not a P4 level CB

 

[KingB02]

People wanted to put him in their universe and he’s not even close . They obviously didn’t watch Missouri . Nice pass rusher but he doesn’t dominate games like those two

He was all that in HS. Played the run just as well as the run in HS. Thought we would get him playing like he did back then. Needs to only be on passing downs. Blount and Lightfoot looking much better

 

[Dhancock12]

That’s probably a lot of it, and linebackers struggling in coverage

They're relying a lot on those quick hitches with the TE's to negate on pass rush. But Stanford's QB is placing the ball pretty **** good as well, so give him credit as well.

 

[WesternMDCane]

OJ hasn’t come back in since the first play

See post 872 in this thread or page 44 about halfway down