STANFORD, Calif. — Tavita Pritchard's college playing career took off when he helped lead Stanford to one of the most stunning upsets in college football history against Southern California, a win that helped lay the foundation for the Cardinal becoming a West Coast powerhouse.

Pritchard returns to The Farm as head coach, looking to get a school that hasn't had a winning record in seven years back to the heights it reached a decade ago.

Rebuilding an entire program is not quite like pulling off an upset against No. 2 USC as a 41-point underdog the way Pritchard did as quarterback in 2007, but the lessons he learned under coach Jim Harbaugh back then still resonate.

“There was no ostensible reason we should have believed we could beat anybody at that time,” Pritchard said Tuesday at his

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