SANTA CLARA (AP) — Stanford used its first meeting against Southern California back in September as a springboard to a successful season that carried the Cardinal to a Pac-12 North title and top 10 ranking.A win in the rematch in the Pac-12 title game on Saturday night will send No. 7 Stanford (10-2, No. 7 CFP) to an ever loftier spot — either a third Rose Bowl bid in four years or a possible berth in the College Football Playoff.Few would have predicted that kind of success for the Cardinal back when they went into Los Angeles as an unranked team and beat then-No.