Very good point. After their FCS team, they travel to SJSU which has quite a lot of experience coming back. CSU could very well drop that game.
Going to be a tough season in Ft. Collins.
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2018 Rocky Mountain Showdown (8/31)
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Very good point. After their FCS team, they travel to SJSU which has quite a lot of experience coming back. CSU could very well drop that game.
Going to be a tough season in Ft. Collins.
ahoelsken
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I don't have an account on the message board of a team my Buffs haven't played since 2010, dude. Good try though.
lvbuff
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surveyor is a little stressed right now. He has to clean up the house after the train rolled through his mother/sister.
After careful analysis, it appears the mighty Buffaloes of the University of Colorado win this matchup more often than they don't
Roughly 40 more times to be exact.
Yeah, I feel like just about every national publication bases their preseason projections and rankings almost solely on returning starters/yards/tackles/INTs/etc. Obviously, there are too many teams to really dive into the potential of the new players being upgrades over the departing Seniors/draft picks, but that's why these preseason rankings are meaningless. CU fans have enough insight into these finer details of the team, and enough knowledge of what CSU has to understand there isn't a position group on the field where the Buffs are overmatched by CSU.
Good Lord. If we looked at offensive yards returning, we would be in a world of hurt. Lindsay, Fields, Bobo and Ross probably accounted for 80% or more of our offense last year. Unless Montez gets factored into those passing yards somehow. I’m not entirely sure how that works.
That's exactly how our Buffs are looked at from the outside. Lost all that production plus 3 starting OLs and need to replace a coordinator.
On defense, that we lost Oliver and the guys (McCartney & Jackson) who had most of our sacks and were two of our top TFL guys for a front 7 that struggled badly.
If you're evaluating 120 teams and not looking all that deeply, it looks brutal for CU.
SuperiorBuff
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**** cornholio!OK, let me put it this way. Their starting center is a returning starter....or so they say. Total starts, 5 games. Also, he has short arms and this will hurt him going against a bigger, stronger, faster player. He doesn't have a chance against Edwards without lots of help.
Their starting Right Guard and Starting Left Guard are returning starters.....or so they say. Total starts, 3 games each. Neither excelled in the starts they did have.
Their starting right tackle, Ben Knox, is a monster and can flat out play. But the game against CU will be only his second at the D1 level. By year end he will be great, but in game two, expect major mistakes.
Their starting left tackle is TJ Roundtree, a guy who played at Louisville, but wasn't even good enough to make the two deep there last year. Like their right tackle, his start against CU will be the second of his career and given his limitations. He will be in big trouble all year long.
CSU's defensive line was pretty terrible last year.....at CSU's scrimmage the offensive and defensive lines were roughly equal....in this case equally bad.
CU is going to win this game going away.
Now everyone, please focus on the game that matters.
Despite their yearly sunshine pumping the reports on Samuels in their scrimmages have not been glowing. His completion percentage has not been high against their defense, a defense which has lost a lot from a team last year that wasn't exactly dominant.
ahoelsken
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I don't see how we don't paste these guys right now. CSU had Stevens and Gallup and couldn't score a TD against one of the worst defenses in the sport last year. On top of a QB who struggles to complete passes, they've also got a whole new offensive line, and as you say, lots of youth on the other side of the ball.
Now do UNLV & Fresno St.
DrunkRalphie
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Why?
Better coaching and they do have talent in their secondary, just really young.
It’s young, but other than their secondary didn’t they lose a ton of starters? I think it could be better down the road, not game 1 or 2 though.
They seriously upgraded at DC. They have young talent, but I agree with Duff, they will be much better than the previous two years. Don't know if it will be enough to be a problem in game 2, but they will be better.
I know Jancek is a really good coach, but Leavitt didn’t seriously improve our D until year 2. Not saying he’s the end all be all of examples but I believe it’s comparable.
You underestimate how bad English was.
Also a a fair point
There was a sizable jump in year one under Leavitt (119th in scoring defense to 70th).
Double like
They do return a good amount of experience in their pass defense and I don't think Carta-Samuels was in for the spring since he was finishing up his degree at Washington in order to play this season.
Plus new D coordinator for the Rams and the same for the OC...maybe that is why Coach Bobo is in the hospital?