and you are basing that on what? What concrete fact do you have to prove that? Or just speculation, cause if that's the case, then my speculation claims that the Pokes or the Trees could have ass rapped the Tide by 35 points or more.
Stanford played three teams with a pulse all season. They got killed by Oregon on their home field. They lost to USC before the refs decided they wanted to give "Golden Boy" Luck the Heisman. And they lost to Oklahoma State.
0-3 against decent teams. Nothing that makes them remotely statistically significant. Barely beat Cal. That team would have lost by at least 28 to Alabama.
As for Oklahoma State, their best win all season was completely outclassed by a team Alabama beat being by 24. Seriously, they beat NO GOOD TEAMS the entire season until Stanford (the team that was obliterated by Oregon) missed a field goal for the win.