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No. 25 California Golden Bears' coach Jeff Tedford was all smiles after the game--and with good reason.

The Cardinals recovered and this set up Toby Gerhart - the leading Pac-10 rusher, to have the second touchdown for a run for the Cardinals who were then up 14-0 in the first quarter.

The college season began as the Year of the Quarterback. All the Heisman Trophy talk centered on Oklahoma's Sam Bradford, Florida's Tim Tebow and Texas' Colt McCoy.

Bo McNally and Syd'Quan Thompson, the active career interception leaders at Stanford and Cal respectively, each added to his total recently.

The USC game wasn't the first time Jim Harbaugh went for a two-point conversion with a big lead.

Stanford's 2-point conversion has turned into something of a 2-point controversy.

BOB SELF/The Times-Union Tim Tebow, shown Oct. 31 against Georgia, has fallen to third and fourth in the major Heisman Trophy polls.

TV: Versus Radio: 810-AM, 860-AM Series history: Stanford leads 55-45-11, but Cal has won six of the past seven meetings, including a 37-16 victory last year.

Former coach John Ralston and members of Stanford's 1972 Rose Bowl champion team will reunite Wednesday night to watch their special performance and gear up for the Cardinal's annual showdown with archrival California in the Big Game.

Jim Harbaugh's first recruiting trip as Stanford's football coach was to Texas to visit Andrew Luck even though it would be more than a year before the quarterback could arrive on campus.

By JIMMY BURCH Alabama running back Mark Ingram lengthened his lead in the Scripps Howard News Service's weekly Heisman Trophy poll, released Wednesday.

Something tumultuous can happen this weekend in northern California. No, it has nothing to do with UC Berkeley's protests against the Regents' 32 percent tuition fee hike; nor does it have anything to do with the fact that Cal's Memorial Stadium is located on a fault line.

Stanford running back Toby Gerhart has been mostly overlooked despite rushing for 1,395 yards and 19 touchdowns.

Finally, a Big Game that lives up to its name. This, folks, is what rivalry week feels like in Eugene and Los Angeles and Columbus but something Bay Area fans haven't experienced in nearly 20 years.

How volatile is the 2009 Heisman Trophy race? According to two of the more reliable tracking polls, Texas quarterback Colt McCoy either drew closer to winning the award, or saw his chances all but evaporate.

The 14th-ranked Stanford Cardinal are one of the hottest teams in college football, and they will play host to the California Golden Bears this weekend in a Pac-10 Conference rivalry bout referred to as the "Big Game". The Golden Bears have won four of their last five games to move to 7-3 overall and 4-3 in conference play.

After another humiliating loss, Southern California tumbled to its worst ranking since Pete Carroll's Trojans began their run as one of college football's best programs in 2002.

Clemson running back C.J. Spiller has been named one of 15 "Players to Watch" in the race for the 2009 Walter Camp Player of the Year Award.

HE IS AN inelegant runner, blasting and banging and bouncing, lifting his style from the University of Jerome Bettis, where tackler tuition is paid in punishment.

Ask any Arizona fan: the worst time to go for a hot dog is when the Wildcats force a punt.