the stanford cardinal lost in last years title game to sam darnold and usc in a cose 31-28 contest... hoping to get back and win it for the 4th time... with heisman finalist bryce love back they like their chances to get back and make a run at a major bowl game... last season love rushed for more than 2,000 hards... but head coach david shaw said this season will not be about love chasing stats... just getting better in his final season before going to the nfl... and helping the team win(sot: david shaw) this year is about him getting bigger, stronger, being more versatile, different things adding to his game, and we're not going to do the bryce love stat watch. that's going to be the majority of questions he's going to get during the course of the year of course is, "well you're on pace for this, which is maybe different than you were last year," that's not going to be in our thinking just preparing him for those questions because that's not going to be our focus. (wipe to cal) in thieer first season under new head coach justin wilcox... the cal bears equaled the 5-and-7