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The Alamo Bowl: Texas Christian 39, Stanford 37

David Shaw began his postgame news conference by reminding us where this team had been. "I can't say it enough. To sit there at 1-2 where we were at the beginning of the season, and fight all the way back to the Pac-12 championship game and fight really hard against a good TCU football team... says a lot about the guys on this team." He was speaking about his Cardinal that had just suffered a narrow 39-37 defeat to the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian, but early in the game it certainly didn't feel like the Stanford postgame presser would include any talk of moral victories. 

Blogging with the Enemy: Texas Christian University Horned Frogs

As the Cardinal readies to take the field on Thursday night against Texas Christian University in the Alamo Bowl, I thought it might be interesting to take a look back at Stanford's run of nine consecutive bowl seasons, the longest such streak in school history. Jim Harbaugh was at the helm for the first two, a narrow loss to Oklahoma in the 2009 Sun Bowl followed by a thrashing of Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl, but David Shaw has kept the train rolling since then with seven straight bowl berths of his own.

 

Shaw's bowl record is an impressive 4-2, with two wins in the Rose Bowl and one each in the Foster Farms and Sun Bowls. Here's a quick rundown. (For the sake of consistency, January bowl games are listed by the years of the season, not the actual dates of the games.)