We have a credible chance to win out.

[Darth Snow]

Rosen doesn't scare me. He is good, but he isn't elite yet.

they can't run the ball very well either. We are going to be releasing the dogs of war on that sore shoulder.

 

[MiamiBuffs]

More threads please, @Liver


I'm serious.

He's doing that CEO/Growth Hacker ****...

 

[MiamiBuffs]

UCLA will be a beat down. They cant even run the ball. WIll be a 5 pick game for buffs.

Almost dead last in the NCAA in terms of rushing offense....

RANK	TEAM	G	RUSH	RUSH YDS	YDS/RUSH	RUSH TD	YPG
101	Washington St.	6	185	841	4.55	16	140.2
102	Buffalo	6	209	839	4.01	4	139.8
-	Northwestern	6	231	839	3.63	9	139.8
104	Iowa St.	7	278	969	3.49	8	138.4
105	East Carolina	6	206	824	4.00	7	137.3
106	Purdue	6	197	818	4.15	9	136.3
107	Michigan St.	6	215	817	3.80	6	136.2
108	Vanderbilt	7	260	945	3.63	11	135.0
109	Syracuse	7	278	939	3.38	9	134.1
110	Western Ky.	7	210	930	4.43	12	132.9
111	North Carolina	7	214	915	4.28	13	130.7
112	Akron	7	201	913	4.54	9	130.4
113	Oklahoma St.	6	227	778	3.43	15	129.7
114	New Mexico St.	6	214	765	3.57	8	127.5
115	UConn	7	273	879	3.22	9	125.6
116	Cincinnati	6	211	749	3.55	8	124.8
117	Fresno St.	7	244	856	3.51	7	122.3
118	Marshall	6	221	702	3.18	8	117.0
119	Virginia	6	179	685	3.83	9	114.2
120	South Ala.	7	245	744	3.04	10	106.3
121	Massachusetts	7	223	708	3.17	5	101.1
122	Miami (OH)	7	255	674	2.64	2	96.3
123	Kansas	6	201	569	2.83	6	94.8
124	Texas Tech	6	172	563	3.27	13	93.8
125	South Carolina	6	184	554	3.01	7	92.3
126	UCLA	7	227	638	2.81	9	91.1
127	Texas St.	6	208	535	2.57	8	89.2
128	Georgia St.	6	149	458	3.07	6	76.3

[TBODY] [/TBODY]
[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Passing offense is however....

RANK	TEAM	G	PASS ATT	PASS COM	INT	PASS YDS	YDS/ATT	YDS/COMP	PASS TD	YPG
1	Texas Tech	6	328	232	6	3065	9.34	13.21	27	510.8
2	Louisiana Tech	7	289	195	4	2681	9.28	13.75	23	383.0
3	East Carolina	6	294	194	7	2268	7.71	11.69	13	378.0
4	California	7	363	226	7	2592	7.14	11.47	27	370.3
5	Middle Tenn.	6	293	189	6	2197	7.50	11.62	19	366.2
6	TCU	6	267	166	8	2175	8.15	13.10	12	362.5
7	Washington St.	6	304	217	6	2168	7.13	9.99	16	361.3
8	Oklahoma St.	6	243	151	2	2103	8.65	13.93	14	350.5
9	Syracuse	7	321	203	5	2423	7.55	11.94	13	346.1
10	Toledo	6	185	130	4	2075	11.22	15.96	25	345.8
11	Western Ky.	7	256	169	5	2341	9.14	13.85	18	334.4
12	Oklahoma	6	194	138	5	1937	9.98	14.04	19	322.8
13	Louisville	6	209	124	5	1931	9.24	15.57	17	321.8
14	Boise St.	7	227	143	5	2244	9.89	15.69	18	320.6
15	Ole Miss	6	222	138	7	1920	8.65	13.91	16	320.0
16	UCLA	7	284	165	9	2230	7.85	13.52	13	318.6

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[TBODY] [/TBODY]

So, they can do something with the ball. The question will be is wether we can take that away from them (the passing game). Or wether we can keep up on offense when we have the ball.

I highlighted Wazzou as well since it looks like the preparation will be similar for both.

 

[TDforTD]

**** yeah we can win out, I wouldn't risk a 3 week ban and humiliation in front of my AllBuffs bros if I didn't believe it.

We can beat Washington too. Transitive property is gonna make them seem unbeatable but I ain't worried about nothing. Ready for UCLA.

 

[TimmyDUBs]

I hope Sefo can learn to throw above the ankles this bye week

 

[BuffLuke80]

They mentioned on the radio about the arm thing. Anybody see any indication of that?

 

[lvbuff]

What arm thing?

 

[sackman]

Rosen can't complete passes when he's on his back.

 

[Bufffan68]

We have a legit shot at 10-2...in fact we'll prob be favored in all of them.

What's our final ranking if we win 10? #22

 

[jkppkjjkp]

We've got a bye week to get guys healthy and work out some of the kinks. 3 of our last 4 are at home, with arizona, arguably our weakest opponent left, on the road.

ucla can score and took a bad beat at the hands of utah today. the pirate has wsu playing super well right now. utah, i have said from the beginning of the season, looks really good. we can beat all of them.

others have said it, but i am now convinced that the p12 south comes down to the Cu-Utah game.

who'd have thunk it before the season started? mm is right when he said even some of his players didn't believe in the summer. i thought we were a 5-7 win team at best. now, it seems pretty clear we are an 8-10 win team. that's pretty bad ass.

If we win out, the Rose Bowl is a very, very real possibility. Our biggest threat is Washington not making the CFP, or USC winning out (including a win against WU) and Washington still making the CFP.

UCLA has been close in all of their games, they're going to benefit from their off week before as well. Being at home for that game is huge, but CU should be strongly favored.

Arizona is CU's weakest remaining opponent, they have had only 2 weak opponents, but they won both of those games. They have lost at home to USC, Washington, and BYU. The Buffs should easily add their name to that list.

Washington State and Utah are both games that CU will be favored for at home. I hope Wash State comes in ranked, they should take care of games at Oregon St, then home against Arizona and Cal. A win against a Wash State team ranked 20-25 pushes a top 20 CU team close to the top 15.

If Utah comes in with only 1 or 2 losses (they play Wash, at ASU, Oregon) then it's a potential top 15ish matchup or Utah as a top 10 if they beat Washington

Now, how awesome would it be if the CFP was 8 teams? Take the P5 conference champions, the top group of 5 team, and 2 "wild-cards". I think that's maybe 5 years down the road.

 

[onealcd]

Washington is a really tough matchup for us so I wouldn't be confident there but we should beat everyone else.

 

[jkppkjjkp]

We have a legit shot at 10-2...in fact we'll prob be favored in all of them.

What's our final ranking if we win 10? #22

EDIT: I missed Florida State as a 2 loss team; they're overranked...

I know you're making a joke there, but objectively we're not grossly under ranked at #23.

Penn State is ranked behind us as a 2 loss team that certainly has a much better signature win, and a 3 point loss to Pitt that is comparable to our USC loss, and a whooping by Michigan. We really shouldn't get much credit for losing like we did to Michigan, yeah Sefo went down and the game changed. Don't pretend like we all know what kind of second half injuries did or didn't happen in the other P5 2-loss teams games, and what the score was at halftime for any of those games.

Maybe you take issue with Western Michigan and Boise State ahead of us? Sure, I expect we'd whoop them, but they're undefeated, and that's just how rankings work.

Then there's the slew of 2 loss P5 teams, #11 Wisconsin, #16 Oklahoma, #18 Tennessee, #19 LSU, #21 UNC, #23 Colorado, #24 Penn State, #25 VaTech, Washington State, Oklahoma State, Pitt. We're right in the middle there.....

Oklahoma State is not ranked and they got jobbed by the refs out of a win against CMU; are you so certain that Oregon is better than CMU and we should point at our last minute win against a team with a 5 game losing streak?

Pitt only has 3 votes, they beat Penn State, and their losses are to UNC and Oklahoma State.

The point is, if you lose 2 games they better be against top ranked teams, by small margins if you want to be higher than right around the #20. Wisconsin lost by a single score to Michigan and Ohio State, Oklahoma lost to Houston and Ohio State, and Tennessee has lost to Florida and Bama. You can probably make an argument about Oklahoma based on Houston and Ohio State looking bad this past weekend, but that's about it.

We could have back-to-back wins at home against ranked teams to close out the season, I think it would put us in the #10-15 range. Win the Pac12 and we'll rightly be in the Top 10.