Newspapers only know how to tell a few different narratives, so they feel the need to hammer everything into one of them. In this case it's "plucky underdog ta

Newspapers only know how to tell a few different narratives, so they feel the need to hammer everything into one of them. In this case it's "plucky underdog takes on established titans", which you have trouble hammering into the narrative when your "plucky underdog" is Stanford.