Andrew Luck and Ron Rivera fight to make Cal and Stanford matter again

November 20, 2025

By Brandon Huffman, CBS Sports: One of college football’s oldest and proudest rivalries hasn’t felt like itself in a while. Cal and Stanford still play The Game, still trade The Axe, still occupy opposite sides of one of the sport’s great divides — but the matchup has lost much of the shine it carried for more than a century.

Two program legends want to change that.

In the span of a month, CBS Sports sat down with Cal general manager Ron Rivera and Stanford general manager Andrew Luck, who both returned last offseason to their alma maters in newly minted roles — tasked with rebuilding proud academic powers in the middle of a football-first, revenue-share era neither school was designed for.

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Cal-Stanford rivalry: What new GMs Ron Rivera and Andrew Luck want to fix

CBS Sports sat down with both first-year general managers as Cal and Stanford enter The Game navigating NIL, the portal and a conference home far from home.

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