Frank Reich returned from retirement to coach Stanford in college for the first time while GM Andrew Luck searches for a permanent replacement. Stanford went 3-9 (2-6 in conference) in its first year in the ACC and saw a program-record 17 transfers, including seven potential starters and quarterback Ben Gulbranson. Hawaii returns 14 starters from a 5-7 (3-4 Mountain West) team and operates a pass-heavy attack led by redshirt freshman Micah Alejado, who has not thrown an interception in 17 games. The season opener is the earliest-ever start for either program, and Stanford's rush defense ranked 41st last season, allowing 133.5 rushing yards per game.
Frank Reich has come out of retirement to coach in college for the first time while GM Andrew Luck, his former QB at Indianapolis, searches for a permanent replacement. He will try to defy expectations at a program that went 3-9 (2-6 in conference) in its first year in the ACC and once again saw many of its top players transfer out. A program-record 17 transfers includes seven potential starters led by QB Ben Gulbranson, who spent the past five seasons at Oregon State.
Hawaii returns 14 starters from a team that went 5-7 last season, 3-4 in the Mountain West. Hawaii's pass-heavy attack is led by redshirt freshman Micah Alejado, who threw for 469 yards and five TDs against New Mexico in his lone start last season and hasn't thrown an interception in 17 games, dating back to his junior year of high school.
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