Frank Reich is glad that he and the Stanford football team have an extra week to prepare for their next nonconference game early next month when the Cardinal travel to Provo to face BYU.

As Reich, Stanford’s interim coach, tries to help solve some of the issues that have plagued the Cardinal over the last four seasons, there are, as expected, a few issues that need to be cleaned up.

That was evident Saturday as Stanford had its share of inconsistencies on offense and suffered late lapses on the defensive side in a 23-20 season-opening loss to Hawaii in Honolulu on Saturday in the first game of the Reich/Andrew Luck era.

Stanford held a 20-17 lead with less than 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter after sophomore running back Micah Ford capped a punishing 20-play, 85-yard drive with a

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