The 2025 college football season begins on Saturday with an intriguing slate of Week 0 games. Among them is a matchup between Stanford in Hawaii , which will be the final game of the weekend before the page turns to Week 1 next week. This will mark the fifth all-time matchup between Stanford and Hawaii and the first since the Cardinal opened the 2023 campaign with a 37-24 win over the Rainbow Warriors.
This past offseason for Stanford was a rollercoaster. The program fired coach Troy Taylor in March after a university investigation. That decision was announced by Stanford general manager Andrew Luck, who is in a new role with the school he called home during the early 2010s.
Taylor will be replaced this season by one of Luck's former coaches with the Indianapolis Colts, Frank R