Head games favor Stanford

Stanford vs. Cornell, how the alumni match up:

First glance: Stanford is tough to beat with 18 Nobel Laureates and four Pulitzer Prize winners. The Cardinal boasts two 7-footers on the court in the Lopez twins, but that’s nothing compared to the school’s off-court lineup of giants:

Supreme Court justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, Vincent Cert, known as “the father of the Internet,” author John Steinbeck and the co-founders of both Google and Yahoo!

Cornell counters with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, literature titans Kurt Vonnegut Jr., E.B. White, Toni Morrison. Also, Dr. Joyce Brothers, C. Everett Koop and . . . Keith Olbermann.

Competitive edge: Tiger Woods is the most famous golfer to come out of Stanford, but Tom Watson actually earned his degree. The Farm also boasts football stars Jim Plunkett and John Elway.

Cornell produced a great golf architect, Robert Trent Jones, class of 1930. The Big Red also forwarded to society NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, former U.S. national soccer coach Bruce Arena and three-time Stanley Cup winner Joe Nieuwendyk.

The pick: Stanford gets more publicity in brain department, but Cornell is no cranial cupcake.

In the end, though, take Stanford and the IQ points.