STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — After spending most of his five seasons at Oregon State as a backup, Ben Gulbranson enters his final college season as the starting quarterback for Stanford.

Gulbranson beat out Elijah Brown to earn the job starting, with the Cardinal's season opener under interim coach Frank Reich on Saturday at Hawaii.

“I’m just really grateful to have another opportunity at it with the teammates and coaches and associate staff here that we have at Stanford,” Gulbranson said Monday. “I think just given the fact that I’ve played five years in the past, been a part of college football for five years, just knowing that this is my last year and I’m trying to make the most of it and just taking it day by day and do my best each and every day.”

Gulbranson transferred to Stanford in l

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