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✦ News & notes Miscellaneous Notes • Notre Dame leads the series against Stanford, 18-9 and is 6-6 in Stanford Stadium. Other than 1995-96, the two teams have met every season since 1988. Along with USC and Navy, it is one of three rivalries Notre Dame would prefer that it not get interrupted. One of the prime reasons is to keep a recruiting presence in California by ending evennumbered seasons at USC and oddnumbered ones at Stanford. • Notre Dame and Stanford join Alabama as the lone teams to defeat three teams in the top 25 of the BCS standings. The Fighting Irish have beaten Michigan State, Arizona State and USC — who are a combined 18-0 since losing to Notre Dame. Stanford has vanquished Arizona State, UCLA and Oregon. • Stanford's 15-game home winning streak is the third longest in the nation, behind Northern Illinois (26 games) and South Carolina (17). The Cardinal is 36-3 (.923) at Stanford Stadium since the final home game of 2007 — which happened to be a 21-14 loss to Notre Dame to cap a nightmare 3-9 Irish campaign. Since 2009, Stanford is 12-1 at home against opponents ranked in either the Associated Press or USA Senior safety Ed Reynolds and Stanford have won 15 straight Today coaches polls. • Stanford has the third-best wingames at home — the third-longest streak in the nation — and the Cardinal are 39-3 (.923 winning percentage) at ning percentage in college football Stanford Stadium since the final home game of the 2007 since 2010, or since Brian Kelly became Notre Dame's head coach. The campaign. photo courtesy stanford top three are 46-5 Alabama (.902), 44-6 Oregon (.880) and 44-7 Stanford (.862). The Irish are 36-14 (.720) during that time. • A victory by Notre Dame over Stanford and a loss by Michigan to No. 3 Ohio State this Saturday would return the Irish to No. 1 in all-time winning percentage among Football Bowl Subdivision teams. Michigan has a .00020882 advantage. The Wolverines' mark is .73359684 while Notre Dame's is .73338802. • This Saturday, fifth-year senior left tackle Zack Martin is expected to start a schoolrecord 51st consecutive time for the Irish. He is currently tied with former Notre Dame offensive tackle Sam Young (2006-09) with 50 straight starts. • Stanford starting quarterback Kevin Hogan is the nephew of Notre Dame 1966-68 quarterback/running back Coley O'Brien, who helped the Irish to the 1966 national title with his play against No. 2 Michigan State and Pac-8 champion USC in the final two games. Hogan also is the nephew of former Irish tackle Ivan Brown (1973). Kelly admitted the Irish entered the recruiting derby too late on Hogan the year they ended up signing Everett Golson. Notre Dame Football tickets 2014 GAMES NOW ON SALE GifT CerTifiCaTes available 25 years in business Buy ✦ SELL ✦ TrAdE BEST SELEcTiON & pricES www.NotreDametickets.com Call 1-800-925-2500 for friendly, personal service and a special Discount today! Tickets also available for other nationwide events including MLB, NFL, Auto racing, NBA, all sports, concerts ✦ Page 12