The No. 9 Notre Dame Fighting Irish, led by quarterback CJ Carr, face the Stanford Cardinal on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025 at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, Calif.

In 1930, Stanford University recaptured the axe despite it being heavily guarded by Cal. Bringing it back to campus, it was then paraded around by Stanford students and then put into a bank vault in ...

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 ...