STANFORD, Calif. — Sedrick Irvin scored on a 1-yard run with 19 seconds left to cap Stanford's rally from a 12-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat San Jose State 30-29 on Saturday.

“We haven’t had the success we wanted in recent years,” Irvin said. “But one thing we knew we are going to do is we're going to fight for four quarters. ... We knew that we had to fight, no matter how long it took. We knew we had to fight to win.”

The Spartans (1-3) went up 26-14 in the opening minute of the fourth quarter on Walker Eget's third touchdown pass of the day.

But Ben Gulbranson drove the Cardinals (2-3) to three straight scores to generate the thrilling win. He threw a 14-yard TD pass to Myles Libman and led Stanford to a 36-yard field goal by Emmet Kenney that made it 29-24.

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