Micah Ford Runs for Four Scores, Stanford Routs Elon 34-7
Micah Ford scored four rushing touchdowns, and the last one went 81 yards. Stanford's offense did the rest of the work around him, and the final was 34-7.
The first quarter was scoreless. Ford ran in from the 1 right at the start of the second, and then from 7 yards with 4:36 left in the half for a 14-0 lead. Davis Warren threw a 27-yard touchdown to Sedrick Irvin in the third quarter, and Ford scored again from 5 yards with 58 seconds left in the quarter to make it 28-0.
The 81-yarder came right at the start of the fourth quarter, with 14:30 left. The extra point missed, so it was 34-0. Elon finally got on the board when Kamerin McDowell-Moore ran 18 yards with 10:34 to go. That was the last score.
The Cardinal rolled up 515 total yards on 293 passing and 222 rushing, and Ford had 179 of those rushing yards on 19 carries, which is more than 80 percent. Stanford turned the ball over once, a lost fumble, and no interceptions. Stanford moves to 3-4. For fantasy, Ford's 52.1 points were a monster, about four times his per-game average coming in.
Stanford's shutout lasted until the fourth quarter. The running game was the story, but Jonanthony Hall also had 5 catches for 70 yards, Nico Brown had 6 for 29, and Jordan Onovughe added 4 for 43, a spread that shows how much Warren had to work with. Warren's 27 of 39 for 279 yards looks small beside that, but it was a quiet supporting role.