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2022 Season Archive

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//posted 8.27.2022

**CU Depth Chart released (no resolution at quarterback or tailback)** … Senior WR Maurice Bell back from injury: “I’m ready to prove everybody wrong” … *Video: OL Tommy Brown and WR RJ Sneed happy to be back practicing* …

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Preseason Magazines

//posted 8.22.2022

Final preseason projections from ESPN+ and Jon Wilner: CU a three-win team in 2022 … Associated Press Preseason poll released: Half of CU’s 2022 opponents receive votes … Pro Football Focus Preseason All-Pac-12 teams … CBS Preseason 1-131: Utah No. 4 (!); USC jumps 73 spots (?) … Neill Woelk: Five Reasons for Optimism … College Football News predicts the outcome of every Pac-12 game …

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The CU defense had its moments in 2021, but was worn down by an historically bad CU offense … Is the Buff defensive line as deep as it has been for years? … Can the senior linebacker transfers (Barnes and Chandler-Semedo) be difference makers? … Can the Buff coaches devise schemes to protect their young secondary? …

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Who will be on the field for the first snaps of the 2022 season? … Will it be incumbent Brendon Lewis behind center, or challenger J.T. Shrout? … Will Alex Fontenot be the featured back? Or will it be running back by committee? … Will transfers R.J. Sneed and Tommy Brown be ready to step into the starting lineup? Or will it be “Plan B” for those positions? …

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Most pundits see CU as a three-to-four win team in 2022 … Going game-by-game through the 2022 season, Stuart, Brad and Neil try and find a path for the Buffs to get to six wins and a bowl bid …

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A special guest essay. CU at the Gamer Rob O. has put together a detailed review as to how CU’s 2021 season compares to CU’s 2015 season. And if 2021 was like 2015, Rob reasons, could 2022 be a special season like 2016? Enjoy the analysis …

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Sipping the CU Kool-Aid

//posted 8.12.2022

It’s been a long nine months for the Buff Nation … Since being dominated in the ’21 finale at Utah, the Buffs have overhauled their offensive coaching staff, lost six starters to the Transfer Portal, signed a mediocre Recruiting Class, and have been dismissed by the national media … And yet …

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Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff said, “Let’s be very clear. No Pac-12 school is joining the Big 12″ – Are we buying that? Or is just the lull before the next storm? … Plus – Fall Camp Preview questions, including the latest tea leaves on who will be CU’s starting quarterback in 2022 ….

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College Football Playoff Expansion Talk Back on the Table … Preseason Media All-Pac-12 Team Released (CU only team with no representatives on first- or second-teams) … UCLA’s “messy situation” could get much worse …

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Well-regarded CU Contributing Editor Neill Woelk has laid out his five reasons for Buff fans to be optimistic heading into the 2022 season … Neill is inside the Champions Center, so have Buff fans been given a template for the Buffs’ 2022 campaign? …

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Karl Dorrell at Pac-12 Media Day: “I believe you are going to see a quality team this year” … Alex Fontenot on running backs room: “I know we can get it done. That’s the confidence I have in our room. … The talent is still there” … Defensive Line: From Weakness to Strength? …

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CU’s conference affiliation for the 2024 season may be unknown, but we do know that the Buffs will be playing in the Pac-12 this fall … Brad and Neil are back, with a team-by-team preview, together with a look at how CU is being treated by the nation’s press this preseason …

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