For the first time in 12 seasons, Stanford football is looking for a head coach. David Shaw, Stanford’s coach since 2011, announced on Sunday he was stepping down. The announcement came a day after the Cardinal concluded a 3-9 season. However, one of those three wins came at Notre Dame in mid-October: one of the more stunning upsets in college football in 2022.
Shaw brought Stanford to heights it hadn’t seen since Jim Harbaugh started the Cardinal turnaround from 2006-2010. Shaw’s run at Stanford concludes with a 96-54 overall mark. Notre Dame fans probably will not miss him and his stout look on the sideline, largely because Shaw’s 6-5 mark against the Irish accounts for nearly half of Stanford’s all-time wins in the rivalry.
Here is a look back at Notre Dame’s 11 all-time meetings with Shaw and Stanford. In what I’d call an otherwise dud of an annually rivalry game, Shaw certainly helped bring this game to a level or relevance that it hadn’t previously seen.