The offensive MVP in the Tx 6A champion
ship game.

Here's an updated list of the latest CU transfer portal departures:

1. Johnny Chaney Jr., LB (Nov. 19)
2. Walter Taylor, QB (Dec. 4)
3. Rayyan Buell, DT, (Dec. 5)
4. Cordale Russell, (Dec. 6) -> Miami (Ohio)
5. Morgan Pearson, LB, (Dec. 6)
6. Yakiri Walker, OL, (Dec. 9) -> Memphis
7. Payton Kirkland, OL, (Dec. 6) -> Miami Ohio
8. Dayon Hayes, DE, (Dec. 10) -> Texas A&M
9. Adonis Forrest Jr., S, (Dec. 9)
10. Asaad Waseem, WR, (Dec. 9) -> Florida Atlantic
11. Jordan Onovughe, WR, (Dec. 8) -> Stanford
12. Destin Wade, QB, (Dec. 10)
13. Tyler Johnson, OL, (Dec. 11)
14. Nikhai Hill-Green, LB, (Dec. 16) -> Alabama
15. Trevor Woods, S, (Dec. 18)

SMU looked good on that first drive but could not convert on 4th down

Congrats to the WBB for the big win over 14th ranked WVU!

Talented Tulsa wide receiver Joseph Williams flips his commitment from Utah to Colorado. Williams had 30 catches for 588 yards and 5 TDs as a freshman, including three 100+ yards, 1 TD games.

One of the top WR prospects in the portal with a four-star transfer rating, sitting at 30th in Rivals transfer portal.

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Colorado added six new transfers in the last two days. Buffs 2025 transfer class up to eight transfers so far. Here's an updated look at all the transfers and what they're bringing to Boulder. This list will be updated as transfers are announced:

It will be Louisville vs Penn State in Louisville. BTW Penn State got in after being down 0-2 to Nebraska and then sweeping the last 3 games.

Tulsa WR Joseph Williams, the ACC Freshman of the year and just flipped from Utah to the Buffs.
Looking for a link.

CU AD: WBB - Buffs Complete Comeback, Upset No. 14 West Virginia (Colorado erased a 16-point third-quarter deficit in its Big 12 opener)

CU AD: MBB - Buffaloes Roll Past Bellarmine In Final Nonconference Tuneup (Video Highlights, Notes, Quotes)

BZ: FB - CU notes: Travis Hunter, Buffs football team celebrated at basketball game

BZ: WBB - Women’s basketball: Dominant fourth quarter rally leads CU Buffs to upset of No. 14 West Virginia

BZ: MBB - Men’s basketball: CU Buffs roll past Bellarmine in nonconference finale

BZ: MBB - Men’s basketball notes: With shot off, Andrej Jakimovski finds ways to contribute for CU Buffs

BZ: FB - CU Buffs have great respect for Alamo Bowl foe BYU

CUATG Blog: FB - ESSAY - Thanks, Shedeur

CUATG Blog: MBB - Buffs finish non-conference play with a 9-2 record with a 79-55 romp over Bellarmine

CUATG Blog: FB - LB LaVonta Bentley: “Oh, a lot of pride, man. My last ride, my last game here”

Ralphie Report: MBB/FB - Buffaloes blow out Bellarmine on Heisman Celebration Day (We had a day full of celebration at The Keg!)

Athlon Sports: FB/MBB - Fans in Awe of Shedeur Sanders' Lob to Travis Hunter at Colorado Basketball Game

Athlon Sports: FB - Nick Saban Reveals Wife Made Him Pick Deion Sanders, Colorado to Beat BYU

SI: FB - Deion Sanders says he won't attend the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay (Coach Prime has different plans for his sons 'Welcome to the NFL' moment)

On3: FB - Colorado superfan Peggy Coppom strikes Heisman pose with Travis Hunter's trophy

Cheers!

One last noncon game before the Buffs begin Big 12 play. CU taking on Bellarmine (3-9). Today's starters:

Julian Hammond (13.4 ppg)
RJ Smith (7.2)
Andrej jakimovski (12.1)
Assane Diop (2.5)
Elijah Malone (12.3)

Bellarmine:
Tyler Voyel (5.7 ppg)
Kenyon Goodin (4.3)
Billy MSith (12.8)
ben Johnson (13.2)
Curt Hopf (4.1)

What is thought so far, IU good but out of their league with big boys

Replacing Rich Rod at Jacksonville State.

The lines I am seeing thru Yahoo on the schedule:

Notre Dame -7 over Indiana

Ohio State -7.5 over Tennessee

Penn State -8.5 over SMU

Texas -12 over Clemson

I have against the spread:

Notre Dame

Tennessee

Penn State

Texas

I think all the above win straight up other than Tennessee.

I like to see Indiana and want PSU to win only because I think they have the best chance to win big against BSU.

More on today's route vs. Bellarmine

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This year: vs. TCU: Punted the ball five times for 235 yards, averaging 47.0 yards a punt ... Stuck one punt inside of the 20-yard line ... vs. West Virginia: Averaged 44.2 yards a punt on five attempts, totaling 221 yards ... Stuck one punt inside of the 20-yard line ... vs. UNLV: Punted the ball three times for a total of 139 yards, averaging 46.3 yards a punt ... vs. Illinois: Punted twice for 109 yards ... Averaged 54.5 yards per punt.

The player portal opened today. It's time to focus in on who's visiting CU, who we might offer, and who we'll get.

I'll start with an interesting player, Liberty QB Kaidon Salter. He has a 5.7 Rivals transfer rating (5.8 out of high school) and has an impressive record at Liberty. He could be the key "bridge" QB as JuJu learns the ropes this coming fall. Salter has expressed an interest in CU, and he plans to visit.

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With Banchero, Wagner Sidelined, Magic Fast-Track da Silva's NBA Education​

Season-altering injuries to Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner have forced the Orlando Magic to rely more than anyone anticipated on rookie Tristan da Silva. He's proving a fast learner.

Mason Williams | Dec 18,

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ORLANDO, Fla. – When the Orlando Magic selected 23-year-old Tristan da Silva in the NBA Draft, he became the franchise's ready rookie.
He was the right blend of fit and need — a high-IQ spot shooter with solid defensive instincts and positional size. For a team with lots of young players to develop, finding plug-and-play talent in the latter half of the draft was "a good day's work." It helped that he was a Colorado Buffalo, too — just like his new head coach.

da Silva's NBA debut came in garbage time of the Magic's opening-night win over Miami. As a fringe second-stringer, he didn't appear in the next four games (he was unavailable Oct. 26 at Memphis with an illness). In late October, the Magic's season and da Silva's role took an abrupt turn.
Leading scorer Paolo Banchero tore his right oblique muscle. (He has been out ever since.) Suddenly, the Magic had 36 minutes to fill on the wing nightly, and da Silva's number was called off the bench to help that effort. On Nov. 1 at Cleveland, da Silva scored his first career bucket and poured in 17 points in 20 minutes.
From that point, he has been the Magic's first choice to join the starting five. He made 13 consecutive starts until Wendell Carter Jr. came back from left foot plantar fasciitis, then picked up Goga Bitadze's minutes when he was a late scratch in New York. Now, da Silva is back in the starting five after Franz Wagner joined Banchero on the sidelines with the same long-term injury.


"I'm just trying to stay steady with it," da Silva said, assessing the first third of his rookie season. "The learning is still pretty obvious. There's still some stuff that I just have to get adjusted to, and most of that is just being out there, actually going through the experience and going through the reps in game situations.
"I feel really happy that I've gotten the chance to play a lot and play some really big minutes in close games and stuff like that. I feel like I've earned a certain amount of trust from the coaches [and] my teammates to be out there. I'm just trying to stay at it, keep working on my game, and figure it out on the fly."
da Silva's performance against the Knicks on Sunday night was the latest benchmark in his development. The rookie recognized that the Magic needed a scoring punch and he came through with a career-high 20-point outburst. In an otherwise poor game from the Magic offense, only Moe Wagner (32 points) outscored da Silva.

"I thought Tristan did some very good things," Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said Sunday night. "I think he was aggressive in the pick-and-roll, I thought he stepped into his shot with confidence [and] the guys were looking for him. His ability to run the floor, push the break, attack the basket the right way — whether he got the call or not, attacking the rim is one thing. But I like his aggression in this situation."

I feel like sometimes, I'm kind of letting my defender off the hook by playing a little bit more passive and just moving the ball," da Silva said Sunday. "So I've kind of had that goal for me, especially these last couple of games, to really be aggressive and try to attack."
That was something Banchero called upon in preseason: for da Silva to become "more assertive" and find more comfort in hunting mismatches. Talking to Magic on SI during the team's five-game Northeast trip earlier this month, Banchero said he's liked what he's seen out of da Silva.
"He's just ready to go every time he subs in," Banchero said. "Even when he's not hitting shots, he's still being solid defensively, still moving the ball, not making that many mistakes. That's what you really like to see out of rookies. Sometimes, coming in your first year, you can be overwhelmed at times. Even in some of his rougher games, he's still been really composed, calm and cool. Having that demeanor, it takes you a long way in this sport.
"I think he kind of has that trait where he doesn't get rattled ... I think as the year goes on, he'll continue to be a piece."​

to Texas A&M

CU AD: WBB - Colorado Opens Big 12 Play at Home: Five Things to Know

CU AD: MBB - Buffs Wrap Up Nonconference Schedule Saturday Against Bellarmine

CU AD: MBB/WBB - Buffaloes Primetime Radio Show Beings Jan. 2

CU AD: Buffs United: Support CU Student-Athletes by Giving to the CU Buff Club

CU AD: FB - Twelve Buffs Earn NFF Colorado Chapter End of Season Awards

BZ: FB - CU football notes: Kansas punter Damon Greaves to join Buffs as transfer

BZ: FB - CU Buffs’ LaVonta Bentley capping collegiate career on high note

BZ: WBB - Women’s basketball: CU Buffs embrace challenge with No. 14 West Virginia coming to Boulder

BZ: MBB - Men’s basketball: Visit from struggling Bellarmine finishes CU Buffs’ nonconference slate

CUATG Blog: FB - Transfer Portal Tracker - Damon Greaves – P

CUATG Blog: FB - Buffs leaving Monday for San Antonio: “They’ll never forget this plane that we’re getting on”

CUATG Blog: FB - CU At The Game Podcast – “T.I.P.S.” For the Alamo Bowl / Plus: Travis Hunter’s Magical Week

SI: FB - Deion Sanders and Colorado brought in massive TV audiences in 2024 (The "Prime Effect" made the Buffs a must-see event every week)

SI: FB - Deion Sanders warns NFL teams interested in Travis Hunter on two-way status (Coach Prime lays down the law on how he expects teams to scout his star player)

Athlon Sports: MBB - Buffs Basketball to Celebrate Travis Hunter’s Heisman

FanSided: FB - Travis Hunter pays into Colorado’s NIL fund, receives $0

Buffs Wire: FB - BYU to be without key player in first half of Alamo Bowl

Cheers!

All times MT

Saturday, December 21st
CFP first round: SMU at Penn State - 10:00 AM - TNT
D1AA Semi-finals: South Dakota State at North Dakota State – 10:00 AM - ABC
D2 Championship: Ferris St vs Valdosta St – 12:00 PM – ESPN2
D1AA Semi-finals: South Dakota at Montana State – 1:30 PM - ABC
CFP first round: Clemson at Texas - 2:00 PM - TNT
CFP first round: Tennessee at Ohio State - 6:00 PM – ABC

ESPN+
Saturday, December 21st
D3 Semi-finals: Mount Union vs John Hopkins -10:00 AM
D3 Semi-finals: Susquehanna vs North Central – 1:30 PM

I think it will be interesting to watch as those who say they wanted this get priced out. The ticket prices at CU are minimal compared to who they want to compete with but will surely (and need to ) jump 30-40 percent or so the next couple years.

It works in the NFL as they somehow get a majority blue collar crowd to spend most of their disposable income on tickets and tv subscriptions. College could work but only if they raise prices to where you don’t also need donations to buy them.

Again, CU is woefully cheap for the game they want to play. The seats midfield at CU are 250-350 a seat donation plus cheap ticket prices. At Texas they are 900-1500 and will rise. At what point do people break. Not there yet but could be interesting to watch

A friend sent this to me. I haven’t followed up reading on the methodology but it’s fun none the less. You can see why private equity and other forms of outside investment are coming. One of the best assets the last 20 years to have in a diversified portfolio has been fractional sports franchise ownership. Maybe college is next