Despite failing to cross the opponent’s 40-yard line until the fourth quarter in Saturday night’s 27-3 loss to BYU, Stanford interim coach Frank Reich said he never considered taking out redshirt senior Ben Gulbranson.

“I’m not going to make any quick judgment on this,” Reich said. “I’ve been around too long to understand that quarterback play is the byproduct of a lot of things, and we need the protection to be better. We need to coach better. Yeah, we need to make a few throws as well. But we need to go back and look at the tape.”

All those issues were certainly on display during a truly awful first half, when Stanford (0-2) gained 20 yards on eight possessions, turned the ball over twice deep in BYU territory and allowed a safety on a completed pass.

Gulbranson badly overthrew open r

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