Thursday night is Sark night: Dawgs down No. 8 Stanford

Don’t get me wrong, beating No. 8 Stanford after the Cardinal overpowered preseason No. 1 USC is quite an achievement, whether the upset victim here is as good as its streak of BCS bowls and elite recruiting classes would suggest or not.

The point is Stanford’s football program is now good enough, after having won only two bowls between 1978 and 2010 (the Sun and Blockbuster), to be considered a Goliath whose felled frame is big enough to dance on.

THURSDAY NIGHT IS FAT GUY TOUCHDOWN NIGHT IN AMERICA.

Also, Murphy’s continuing the new Thursday night tradition of being like the only guy on the field to actually do any scoring.

It’s rare that a band director gets the chance to show up Stanford’s -- remember just two weeks ago, when Stanford’s band was led into battle against USC by a faux-Trojan?

The only way for Washington’s frontman to get a little shine of his own was to prove it on the gridiron, and prove it he did:

Price has completed five of his 12 attempts -- four of them to Williams, for 55 of his 62 yards.

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But in Las Vegas and at online sportsbooks around the world, the recent headlines read like this: Bet On Stanford As Favorites.

In its past 20 games as chalk, a situation it find itself in Thursday night at Washington, Stanford has failed to cover the spread just three times. Its 16-3-1 ATS is one of the very best in all of college football and has gotten the attention of bettors this week.