With Stanford’s season opener against Kansas State looming, a few members of The Daily Sports Staff — Vihan Lakshman (VL), Michael Peterson (MP), Sandip Srinivas (SS), Andrew Mather (AM), Do-Hyoung Park (DHP), Nicky Sullivan (NS) and Alexa Philippou (AP) — provided their predictions on how the Cardinal will fare this season and which teams will emerge as among the top in the nation.

Predict the games:

Opponent	VL	MP	SS	AM	DHP	NS	AP
KSU	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
USC	W	W	W	L	W	W	L
@UCLA	L	L	W	W	L	L	L
@UW	W	W	W	W	W	L	L
WSU	L	W	W	W	W	W	W
@ND	L	L	L	W	L	W	L
COLO	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
@ARIZ	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
OSU	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
@ORE	W	W	W	W	L	W	L
@CAL	W	W	W	L	W	W	W
RICE	W	W	W	W	W	W	W

 

Predict the Pac-12 Championship:

VL: Stanford over UCLA

MP: Stanford over UCLA

SS: Stanford over UCLA

AM: USC over Stanford

DHP: UCLA over Stanford

NS: Stanford over Utah

AP: UCLA over Washington

 

Stanford offensive MVP:

VL: Christian McCaffrey

MP: Christian McCaffrey

SS: Christian McCaffrey

AM: Christian McCaffrey

DHP: Christian McCaffrey

NS: Christian McCaffrey

AP: Christian McCaffrey

 

Stanford defensive MVP:

VL: Solomon Thomas

MP: Peter Kalambayi

SS: Quenton Meeks

AM: Solomon Thomas

DHP: Solomon Thomas

NS: Harrison Phillips

AP: Solomon Thomas

 

Newcomer of the year:

VL: Dylan Jackson

MP: Justin Reid

SS: Ryan Burns

AM: Cameron Scarlett

DHP: Bobby Okereke

NS: Justin Reid

AP: Trenton Irwin

 

Conference champions:

League	VL	MP	SS	AM	DHP	NS	AP
ACC	Florida St.	Clemson	Clemson	Clemson	Florida St.	Clemson	Clemson
Big Ten	Ohio St.	Ohio St.	Ohio St.	Iowa	Michigan	Michigan	Ohio St.
Big 12	TCU	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Texas	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
Pac-12	Stanford	Stanford	Stanford	USC	UCLA	Stanford	UCLA
SEC	Alabama	LSU	LSU	Alabama	Ole Miss	Alabama	LSU

 

Predict the playoff:

Seed	VL	MP	SS	AM	DHP	NS	AP
1	Alabama	Clemson	Clemson	Clemson	Florida St.	Alabama	LSU
2	FSU	LSU	LSU	Alabama	UCLA	Clemson	Ohio St.
3	Ohio St.	Ohio St.	Ohio St.	USC	Michigan	Notre Dame	Notre Dame
4	TCU	Oklahoma	Stanford	Iowa	LSU	Michigan	Oklahoma