STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh's first recruiting trip as Stanford's football coach was to Texas to visit Andrew Luck even though it would be more than a year before the quarterback could arrive on campus.
Harbaugh visited three other quarterbacks on that trip but liked Luck best of all to be the quarterback to build a program around. Nothing Luck has done in his first year as a starter at Stanford has altered that opinion.
Luck is a major reason why No. 14 Stanford (7-3, 6-2 Pac-10) has moved into The Associated Press rankings and qualified for a bowl for the first time in eight years.
Stanford is also in the running for a Rose Bowl bid heading into the Big Game on Saturday against rival California.
