{"id":284269,"date":"2025-08-13T07:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/284269\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:48:14","slug":"stanford-makes-decision-at-starting-quarterback-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/284269\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford makes decision at starting quarterback \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When BYU hosts Stanford in Week 2 of the 2025 season, both teams will have relatively new starting quarterbacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Though there\u2019s been no clear determination on who will be the Cougars\u2019 starter, the Cardinal reportedly have chosen a signal caller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ben Gulbranson has earned the starting nod as Stanford\u2019s quarterback, according to multiple national reports. The Athletic\u2019s Stewart Mandel was first to report the news.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755071294_115_UHKGP77IT5E3JLPDLCGEIU5ZBI.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Special Collector&#8217;s Issue: &#8220;1984: The Year BYU was Second to None&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Get an inclusive look inside BYU Football&#8217;s 1984 National Championship season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former Oregon State QB Ben Gulbranson has won Stanford&#8217;s starting job, a source told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TheAthletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 6th-year senior went 8-4 as a starter at Oregon State. It initially appeared he was done with football before entering the portal in April.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford opens Week 0 at Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slmandel\/status\/1955325962981343630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gulbranson is a sixth-year senior who played the previous five seasons at Oregon State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He appeared in 18 games for the Beavers, with 11 starts, and completed 61.8% of his passes while throwing for 2,648 yards, 15 touchdowns and 10 interceptions at Oregon State. He also ran for six touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Last season, Gulbranson threw for 943 yards, four touchdowns and four interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As a redshirt sophomore in 2022, he went 7-1 as a starter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gulbranson was in a quarterback competition with UCF transfer Dylan Rizk and redshirt freshman Elijah Brown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bear Bachmeier, who is in battle to become BYU\u2019s starting quarterback with McCae Hillstead and Treyson Bourget, transferred from Stanford after spring ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gulbranson and Stanford will open the season in a Week 0 matchup against Hawaii on Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Cardinal visit BYU on Sept. 6. The game kick offs at 8:15 p.m. MDT and will be televised on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When BYU hosts Stanford in Week 2 of the 2025 season, both teams will have relatively new starting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,3309],"class_list":{"0":"post-284269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-news-feed-local"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115020359546788440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}