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. Stanford needs a new head coach. Cal needs to hang on to its star freshman quarterback. Both need to navigate NIL, the porta

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