what's going on YouTube this is sg1 sports and you're watching our college football channel we continue with our 2024 schedule preview and projected record series Stanford up next as we take back a look back at their schedule from last season a three and9 record of course they had that win over Colorado that wound up being a bit of a surprise actually two three Road wins all their wins came on the road Hawaii Colorado and Washington state yet they lost at home to Sacramento State so kind of a weird season for Stanford a team that really just wasn't very good and you look to 20 24 and and wonder are they going to be very good this year well here's their schedule uh we'll start with a nonconference they'll play TCU calply Notre Dame and San Jose State um and San Jose State on the road is kind of interesting there so that's a you know Notre Dame and TCU in the non-conference that's a pretty tough non-conference schedule uh you look at the home games in the ACC and yes Stanford is now in the ACC you got Virginia Tech SMU Wake Forest and Louisville all going to be pretty tough games then you look at the road schedule in the ACC it's Syracuse Clemson NC State and Cal uh yeah it's it's it's going to be similar to last year it's going to be very tough for Stanford to find wins in my opinion we'll go game by game they'll start with TCU on August 30th that's going to be the Friday night of that opening weekend they'll play C pully on the 7th then they'll play at Saku after a by week and that'll also be a Friday night game so two F two of their first three games are Friday night games uh they'll play Clemson the next week on the 28th and boy you wonder about travel like will they just stay on the East Coast between this Syracuse and Clemson game they've got a little bit of extra time because the Syracuse game is on a Friday um you know it's it's crazy that Stanford and Cal are in the ACC it's just crazy uh anyways let's move on after Clemson they'll be back home for Virginia Tech on October the 5th then it's at Notre Dame so they're right back U not all the way to the East Coast SP all the way to Notre Dame on the 12th then they're home for SMU on the 19th then they'll play Wake Forest at home on the 26th so back-to-back home games there that's actually the only place on the schedule where they have back-to-back home games that's that's pretty crazy right there uh they play NC State on the road so they go travel out out east I should say to play NC State they do get a by week after that one then it's back home for Louisville on the 16th and they'll stay they'll stay on the west side of the country for the rest of the season they'll get Cal on the road on the 23rd and then San Jose on the 30th and on the road as well and so you know travel is going to be a big big issue for them in the ACC but it's it's you know it could be a lot worse you know you get a couple of by- weeks in there that'll help you'll have the Friday night game uh that'll help a little bit and so it's not awful I think they did the best that they could with this schedule at least uh trying to to not have them travel quite as much but like I said it's just crazy that Stanford and Cal are in the ACC let's get to the projections uh they were 3 and N last year our projection had them at 4-8 actually picked him to go 2 and 10 uh and then Athlon him at 3 and N the over under was at 2 and a half so yeah this was not a team that was expected to do a whole lot let's get to the projections for this year again this is the scale that we use you got cowp look I've got this game in the green I know they lost an FCS team last year but odds are that's not going to happen again I've got San Jose St in the purple on the road so look Stanford is a team that is just not going to have you know they're going to be at a talent disadvantage in a lot of games in the you know at least in the the ACC or in the the power four conference games that they play they still should match up pretty well against a team like San Jose State and they should be able to beat a team like calp we'll see if that happens but for Stanford to be successful they're going to have to have really good coaching it's kind of like Kansas State you look at Chris kman great coach uh they don't have the the talent of some of the other teams but they've been very successful so that's what it's going to come down to Stanford's going to have to have really really good coaching if they're going to be successful and the jury is still out on that but you got two games there you've got NC State and Louisville games where I think they're going to be at least a touchdown Underdog eight or nine points probably in those two games maybe more uh I'm being generous again I'm being conservative with these projections U so being a little bit generous and we've got Clemson and Notre Dame in the orange both on the road they're going to be big underdogs double digit two touchdown plus underdogs in both of those games and then the rest of these games TCU Syracuse Virginia Tech SMU Wake Forest and Cal I've got him as 5050 games but honestly if I had to pick who is going to be favored I'd say TC will be favored I'd say Syracuse will be favored I'd say Virginia Tech will be favored SMU will be favored Cal will be favored it's on the road maybe Stanford is favored against Wake Forest that's probably about it so if you just go by that then you're going to get a projection more like three and nine but the odds would say that they're going to split these 5050 games maybe they pull off a win pull off an upset in one of these other games and it would get him to six and six well I don't think this team is going to get to six and six it's not my prediction it's just the formula that we use and this formula is very very conservative in fact this is the final ACC team and we did not have any ACC teams miss a bowl game uh I think they might have all been between six and six and 8 and four and you do have a lot of parody in this conference and you don't have any Elite teams and that's why it came out that way uh but we're going to see several ACC teams I'm sure not make it to a bowl game um but it could you know who knows maybe this is the way it plays out I don't really expect that to happen but uh that's just kind of what the odds would say again I think Stanford might be the worst team or one of the worst teams for sure in the ACC and I think they'll struggle to get to a bowl game but projection is six and six they were like 5.8 or 5.8 wins eight and a half wins maybe uh so they were closer to 5 and seven and seven and five but it does round up to six and six would love to get your thoughts on this Stanford team do you think they might get to a bowl game is this projection accurate or is it going to be a lot worse let me know your thoughts on this team down in the comments below