Stanford was unable to hold a fourth-quarter lead as Hawaii kicked two late field goals, including a 38-yard game-winner as time expired, for a 23-20 victory. Playing its first game under interim coach Frank Reich, Stanford jumped to a double-digit lead but showed offensive inconsistency in the second half. Stanford mounted a 20-play, 15-run drive capped by Micah Ford's two-yard touchdown to take a 20-17 lead. Hawaii tied the game with a 37-yard field goal and then drove 51 yards before Kansei Matsuzawa's 38-yard kick won it. Early miscues, penalties, and defensive errors undermined Stanford despite first-half clock dominance.
The Stanford football team was unable to hold onto a fourth-quarter lead as Hawaii kicked two late field goals, including one with three seconds left, to hand the Cardinal a bitter 23-20 loss in the first game of the Frank Reich/Andrew Luck era. After a stalled Cardinal drive, Rainbow Warriors quarterback Micah Alejado drove his team 51 yards on eight plays before Kansei Matsuzawa kicked a 38-yard field goal as time expired.
Playing its first game under interim coach Reich, whom Luck, the first-year GM, hired in March, the Cardinal jumped out to a double-digit lead but was largely inconsistent on offense in the second half. But Stanford took a 20-17 lead after putting together a 20-play drive, in which it ran the ball 15 times, in the fourth quarter, capped by Micah Ford's two-yard touchdown run with 9:47 left.
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