Yahoo Sports: More explosive Cardinal brace for life without Gerhart (through rose-colored glasses, of course)
Part of the Doc's Pac-10 Week.
Stanford's human Brinks truck, Toby Gerhart, carried the ball more times last year for more yards than anyone else in college football, personally accounting for well over a third of the total yards from scrimmage by the Pac-10's most productive total offense. Gerhart's bruising consistency gave the Cardinal unusual balance (218 yards per game rushing, 209 per game passing), on lethal display in the back-to-back 50-point outbursts against conference frontrunners Oregon and USC in November.
That balance also made life extraordinarily easy ...
