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CU At The Game Podcast – Our Big 12 Preview: Team-by-Team Projections for the 2024 Season
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Welcome to our Big 12 Preview podcast. I am joined for this episode by Brad Geiger and Neil Langland, and we are going to give you our team-by-team look at the Big 12 conference race. With our previews, we project each Big 12 rival’s season, slotting teams into four categories.
– Tier One: A team which is a Big 12 title contender, and a likely Top 25 team nationally;
– Tier Two: A solid team, and a likely bowl participant, but a team with a flaw or two which will prevent them from threatening to win the league;
– Tier Three: A team with bowl aspirations, where the Strive for Six is the main goal, a goal which obtainable if the season plays out as projected; and
– Tier Four: A team going through a rebuilding season. You can squint at the schedule and perhaps find six wins and a bowl bid, but a losing season is the most likely outcome.
So … How many teams in the Big 12 will likely be out of the bowl picture by the end of September? … What to make of the messy middle in the most competitive Power Four conference, with any number of teams who could finish with anywhere from four to eight wins? … Which teams are our picks to play for the Big 12 title? … And … of course, where does CU fit in the mix? …
Let’s find out …
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Most recent CU at the Game Podcast episodes …
- May Mailbag Episode: CU v. The World
- Pet Peeves Bracket Challenge
- June Mailbag – Identifying CU’s Top Transfers/ CU in the post-House world
- Schedule Countdown – Ranking the Buffs’ 2024 Opponents
- Projecting CU’s Starting Lineup: Offense
- Projecting CU’s Starting Lineup: Defense and Special Teams
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Below is Episode 16 of Season 5 for the CU at the Game Podcast. You can listen to the podcast simply by clicking on the play button below, or listen to it at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio … or wherever you find your podcasts!
One Reply to “CUATG Podcast: Our Big 12 Preview”
So, a group of Big12 teams are tier one and a group are tier four with 8 or 9 teams in the middle of the conference; including CU. But a couple of the upper teams are teams with good records last year that have both a good returning core of players/QB AND a favorable schedule, which puts them in the possible 9 or 10 win category. So, without that schedule they’re really a lower ranking team?
The Buffs have too large of a turn over through the portal to be able to really see “the totality of the sum of new parts” before they play and how it’s going to work out; but we can see the improvement on paper. The difference is the key returning pieces, such as QB & a few other skilled players, and how they combine with the new transfers.
With the Buffs having a great nucleus of skilled players, I mean who else has a top Heisman possible QB returning with a great receiving core? The improved line should put this offense on a whole new level. But it’s hard to see where the Buffs will fit in with all the new moving pieces until we see them play.
Can the Buff’s lines, both offense and defense, get them to the top tier?
If the line and play calling are up to what we’ve been reading about, Shedeur’s stats should be better than last season, maybe 4,000 plus passing, 30 something TDs w/ 6 or less INTs and around a 70% completion ratio gets the Buffs how many wins? How many more if the run game gets going too?