Get ready for the Denver media to crank up the rivalry aspect.
The only play in the media playbook is to stir the pot with the same tired old "brother against brother" and "a family divided" storyline. The hate angle sells seats. The CU fan base will get their buttons pushed with reminders of how CSU fans danced on Folsom field. "The Buffaloes want revenge." Blah, blah, blah.
The CSU fans will be demanding legitimacy based upon last year's victory and their association with a surging TCU/Utah/BYU lead MWC.
Somehow we'll be told how this game is good for football and how it's good for the state.
The fact of the matter is that the RMS was restarted almost two decades ago when the football programs were more relevant then than they are now. If the RMS has realy helped football in the state of Colorado, then it's contribution is too little, too late. Colorado football takes a back seat to Utah, Arizona and Idaho within the mountain time zone. Both Colorado programs are basement dwellers in their respective conferences. How much worse off would football be in Colorado without the RMS?
The only difference is that CU sucks on the Big 12 teet and is rewarded more hansomly for losing. Little bro will remain envious of CU's uncanny ability to squander ten or twenty million dollars associated with its BCS conference revenue sharing subsidies, and still get beat.
The RMS and it's neutral location has become the defacto bowl game for both programs. The game takes place at the only possible time in the schedule when neither school has a losing record.
Seeing that neither school can fill their much smaller campus stadiums, the RMS is the tribute to the pathetic level of college football support on the front range. As Easter is to fairweather Christians, the RMS is to college football fans in Denver. If you go to that one game, you can punch you fan card for the year.