Spring/Summer – 2024

*Associated Press Preseason Top 25 Poll Released – CU gets a vote* … CBS Sportsline Betting Expert: Take CU and the over at 5.5 wins … ESPN’s Bill Connelly (reluctantly): CU to sustain 2023 gains …

With Fall Camp about to start, Buff fans will (finally) be spared some of the off-season rhetoric … but make no mistake, the 2024-25 off-season – even if CU is successful on the field – will be another field day for the doubters and the skeptics …

New Chancellor Justin Schwartz: “I’m a fan, but I’m also a fan of doing things the right way” … CU’s “earned media income” four times greater in Year One under Coach Prime …

There were significant additions to the CU defensive line, but the search for linebacker help wasn’t as successful … Can a strong secondary and a beefed up line get the Buffs to a winning record? … Let’s find out …

In what year did CU join the “Big Six” to form the “Big Seven”? … With which three teams in the new Big 12 is CU tied in the all-time series? … Will you agree with my favorite all-time games played against each Big 12 team? … Let’s find out …

Picking Shedeur Sanders to be CU’s quarterback is not difficult, but how does the CU quarterback room compare to the rest of the Big 12? … Projecting the staring 11 for the Buffs this fall, but also a grading of each room on the offense compared to the rest of the conference …

When the “easiest” of the most difficult games on the schedule is a trip to Lincoln, it could be a long year for the Buffs … But, are there really any games on this list which the Buffs can’t win? … Let’s find out …

Which of CU’s 12 opponents this fall rate as the “easiest” opponents? … If the Buffs are to go bowling, the “Search For Six” begins with these games …

The College Football News ranks ten of CU’s 12 games as “50/50” games … No cop outs here, as we rank all 12 CU opponents, from the “easiest” game of the season, to the “most difficult” … See if you agree with our rankings …

Hope was in short commodity 18 months ago when Karl Dorrell was fired in the middle of the worst season in program history … Coach Prime’s presence and talent acquisition brought Buff fans hope, but 2024 is all about turning hope into results …

CBS Sports has CU in the middle of the Big 12 in its: “Net rankings and player totals”, but using the 247 Sports transfer ratings, the quality of CU’s Transfer Class is clear (even compared to the CU Transfer Class of 2023) …

So … Who would make your list of CU’s top three transfers on offense, and top three transfers on defense? … Is the Shilo Sanders bankruptcy important news, or much ado about nothing? … Will private equity be the “kiss of death” for college football, or its salvation? … Let’s find out …

CU has the game times and networks known for four games – and all four are guaranteed to draw bigger audiences than watched CU play in all of 2022 … But all of the attention is not always welcome (with Shilo’s bankruptcy making national news) …

Revenue sharing = 22%of what, exactly? … SEC Commissioner – Congressional action required: “a national system deserves national standards” … Winners and Losers from House settlement … Private Equity may be the wave of the future …

With the payouts from the House settlement, combined with the new revenue sharing model for student-athletes, the only programs which will survive have to have success on and off the field … For CU, the future is now …

Which bothers you most as a college football fan: Drive extending penalties by your team’s defense? … Or … Your team’s offense throwing a six-yard completion on third-and-seven? … A Sweet Sixteen of Pet Peeves – Which will be crowned champion? … Let’s find out …

CU received good news this week concerning its non-conference schedule, including kickoff times and television partners … Travis Hunter is living the good life as an EA Sports poster child … Will CU sell out all of its home games? (It looks like it) …

In the silly season of college football, there is plenty of time for pundits to post their negative predictions and prognostications … Or you can look at a “CU just outside of the Top 25” prediction or CU’s recruiting rankings … and feel better about things …

The Athletic took CU to task for its “castoffs”, but was the overhaul justified by the article’s own stats? … Should Coach Prime and Shedeur weighed in, or should they have left it alone? … Have the holes in the lineup been sufficiently filled? … Will CU be a part of the post-House college football world? … Let’s find out …

The normally quiet month of May has started as anything but, with Coach Prime and Shedeur embroiled in a social media firestorm … If they had just stuck to the facts, though, the narrative about CU’s roster overhaul may have been different …

The Athletic article about the departures of the 2022 roster has created a firestorm of criticism … But, despite the fact that the article was written by a Nebraska alum, the numbers actually show that Coach Prime was actually right to do what he did …