At least it's a border rivalry game.
And this is a game that I want to win badly.
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2024 Colorado Football Schedule & Future Schedules
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At least it's a border rivalry game.
And this is a game that I want to win badly.
Surprised it’s not Utah. Although did they get paired with BYU?
No real rival, so OSU makes sense.
At least a border state rivalry. When it came to our old Big 8 border rivals, OSU was overlooked by Nebraska, OU, KU, and KSU.
The 2026 non con is a scheduling failure. Granted, they're middling programs, but having two road games against P4 opponents is a failure. At least that year should be 5H/4A for the conference games.
It has only been since Prime came in that the AD has acknowledged we need to schedule more home games than we have traditionally. Previously the scheduling logic was 2 non-conf away games when 5 conf home games and 1 non-conf away game when 4 conf home games.
Given most high P5 teams play a marquee non-conf game every few years and the rest are 2-3 body bag games and then one reasonable P5 game, we have been doing ourselves a disservice for a long time.
Examples of 2024 scheduling:
- Alabama: South Florida, Western KY, @Wisconsin, Mercer
- Georgia: Clemson, Tennessee Tech, UMass, GT (all home)
- OSU: Akron, Western Mich, Marshall (all home)
- Penn St: @ WVU, Bowling Green, Kent St
More time to prepare for the Nubs will be good. I’m not sure on campus rules but I believe on a weeknight the earliest kick off can be 7pm
That might be the easiest money of the year. Vegas and the ill-informed public will push that line way too low. We'll beat the piss out of NDSU.IThursday night football
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Now I can go to this game. Had tickets to another event on Sat and would have chosen it over this game. Twice as nice now
Is this really a rule?
Otoh, it's been 8 years since they beat an FBS team.
That long gap in having FBS opponents is doing some heavy lifting here.
Especially considering their staff has completely changed, they are no longer the dominant FCS program that they once were (have still been pretty good), and the entire CFB landscape has changed in a way that doesn't benefit good FCS programs.
Yesterday DNVR ranked their top 5 anticipated games on this year's schedule.
Their list and reasons
Their list and reasons
- Nubs, duh
- Lambkins, duh
- KState, Dylan Edwards returrns
- NDSU, season opener all the haters will be foaming at the mouth hoping for an upset
- UCF, Prime's home state and a recruiting pipeline, battle of black and gold at the Bounce House.
- Nubs, duh
- Lambkins, duh
- Okie Lite, the narrative contrasting Gundy and Prime with so much implicit racist bull**** will be alternately fascinating and exhausting. A bid to the CCG could be on the line in this game too. If this conference alignment lasts, I think this is our number one rival.
- Utah, our other potential rival and I think the top dog in the conference at this point.
- NDSU, same thoughts
NDSU comes after Nebraska and CSU for me simply because it's game one, on a Thursday (or Friday?) night, nationally televised and I'll be nervous as hell as so much of CU's future under Prime rides on the 2024 season and they need to come out and show that they are able to do what serious programs do and beat and handily beat an FCS team at home.