No one was really Close.

But @Longtimebuff1 wins it with 12 points off the score- he had CU-42 ASU 38 and is this weeks winner.

Congrats @Longtimebuff1 !

A Sunday afternoon exhibition with Colorado provided fans with their first look at -- and perhaps some answers from -- this reshaped Colorado basketball team, as the Buffs beat visiting Nebraska, 72-61.

“Once our guys settle in and feel a little bit more comfortable and confident out there, I like this team. I’ve said that from the get-go," Boyle said.

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Head coach Tad Boyle, KJ Simpson and J'Vonne Hadley recap the rematch against Nebraska.

BZ: FB - Colorado football: Buffs have decision to make at QB going into final month of season (Interim head coach Mike Sanford said Buffs considering redshirt for Owen McCown and going with JT Shrout down stretch)

CU AD: FB - Takeaways From Buffs Vs. Arizona State

CU AD: MBB - Colorado Tops Nebraska In Exhibition

CU AD: VB - Buffs Defense Stifles Trojans

CU AD: SOC - No. 7 Cardinal Top Buffs

CU AD: MGOLF - Golfers Move Up A Notch in Hawai'i

CUATG Blog: MBB - Video: Head coach Tad Boyle, KJ Simpson and J’Vonne Hadley discuss win over Nebraska

CUATG Blog: FB - Pac-12 Notes – Oregon Week - Pac-12 Lines – Colorado a four-touchdown underdog at home against No. 8 Oregon + Big 12 Beating Pac-12 to the Punch, Nearing Media Rights Deal with ESPN; Fox

CUATG Blog: FB - Essay: Soak up the Sun

Trojans Wire: ig 12 lands new 6-year media rights deal with ESPN and Fox; what it means for Pac-12

Buffs Wire: FB - WATCH: Mike Sanford, players discuss CU Buffs' loss to Arizona State

Buffs Wire: FB - Five key stats from Colorado's loss to Arizona State

Cheers!

Pac-12 presidents and chancellors will meet Monday in San Francisco as they do every year at this time, just never with an agenda like the one currently before them.

No, they are not expected to vote on a new media rights contract, although there will be updates from commissioner George Kliavkoff.

And no, USC president Carol Folt and UCLA chancellor Gene Block won’t participate for any portion of the meeting given their planned moves to the Big Ten in 2024.

Typically, the fall meetings include a gathering of the presidents, athletic directors and conference executives, then a session with only the presidents and high-level conference staff.


This year, the athletic directors are expected to join remotely, with only the local duo, Cal’s Jim Knowlton and Stanford’s Bernard Muir, appearing in person.

The agenda will include many of the topics covered every year, including operational, financial, legal and NCAA updates. But three additional items reflect the dynamic state of college sports generally and Pac-12 survival specifically.

Kliavkoff and his executive staff will brief the presidents on:

— The University of California Board of Regents’ ongoing review of UCLA’s entry into the Big Ten.

The regents, who are scheduled to meet Nov. 15-17 in San Francisco, have the authority to block the move, slap UCLA with a financial penalty or let the Bruins join the Big Ten unencumbered.


— The latest on College Football Playoff expansion.

The event will grow to 12 teams for the 2026 season, but FBS commissioners are attempting to solve complicated logistical issues in time for expansion to be implemented for either 2024 or 2025.

Washington State president Kirk Schulz, who represents the Pac-12 on the CFP’s Board of Managers, will undoubtedly have insight on this matter.

— The Pac-12’s media rights negotiations.

Although the negotiations likely are closer to the finish than start, the presidents aren’t expected to formalize an agreement.

A conclusion is weeks away, at least, as the Pac-12 waits for a resolution on UCLA’s move to the Big Ten.

Once the conference and potential media partners have full clarity on the Bruins’ future, contract details can be presented to the presidents for approval.

At this point, it does not appear the Big Ten is on the verge of offering membership to Washington, Oregon, Stanford and Cal; nor does it appear that a jump to the Big 12 is imminent for Arizona, ASU, Utah and Colorado.

However, the situation is highly fluid until the 10 remaining schools sign a media rights contract.

The conference’s two longtime partners, ESPN and Fox, have interest in Pac-12 football and basketball, according to sources.

ESPN needs inventory for the valuable 7:30 p.m. (PT) kickoff, and perhaps for windows on ESPN+. Meanwhile, Fox has approximately 22 time slots currently allocated to Pac-12 football that would need to be filled by another means if the network completely abandons its partnership with the conference.

Amazon and Apple are believed to have interest in the Pac-12, as well. The streaming giants don’t produce their own events but could use the Pac-12 Network’s cutting-edge infrastructure for that purpose.

It's only an exhibition, but we figured we'd do a live thread for anyone interested in what takes place today between Colorado and Nebraska men's basketball. The Huskers aren't particularly good, coming off a 10-22 finish last season, and they've been widely picked as the last-place team in the Big Ten

Mostly just excited to have some basketball to watch and I know given the difficulties of this football season, a lot of Buffs fans probably feel the same way. So feel free to chime in if you're here and want to share your thoughts. Or if you have any questions about what's going on this afternoon, let us know

Here's a look at the recruits who have indicated they will be visiting Colorado this weekend for the game against ASU. These lists are always subject to change. As of now California WR/DB Jordan Shaw is the only prospect set to take an official visit this weekend. He has some big offers on the table, but his recruitment hasn't been as active this season as it was early in the year. There will certainly be an opportunity for the Buffs to make a strong impression on him.

2023

Notable offers: Colorado, Arizona State, Arizona, Cal, Oregon, USC, Utah, Washington, Washington State

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2024



Notable offers: Cal

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2025

Notable offers: Colorado, Arizona State, Arizona, Cal, Washington State

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2026

Juju Parm — WR/DB (Mater Dei HS - Santa Ana, Calif.)

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When Colorado joined the Pac 12, it didn’t realize what it was getting into. Personally, I wasn’t aware of how thoroughly USC dominated the conference. As far as the media was concerned, the Trojans are the Pac 12. Every conversation about the conference begins with SC.

The Trojans have been beating up these Pac 12 weaklings for 100 years. So much so that there’s sort of a Stockholm Syndrome going on where many school have given up competing against the Cardinal and Gold juggernaut. I asked a Rivals writer who covers Cal why they haven’t competed better against SC over the years and his answer was simply that they take it more seriously than Cal does.

With SC leaving the conference it’s going be very interesting to see how the Pac evolves once its big boy is gone. As an outsider coming in, I saw the conference as very solid top to bottom. The Arizona schools, Washington won a NC, and CU in recent years has been dominated by Oregon. I just didn’t fully appreciate the extent of the dominance SC had over the conference. It extends back decades and decades.

SC, which admires Notre Dame so much, should have taken the independent route a long time ago. In fact, if the Big 10 plan turns out to be too onerous, they should become an independent and live on their own media deal just like the Irish ($75 million a year).

But to be honest, I can’t wait to see what the Pac 12 evolves into. It’s good football. And with the additions of SDSU and SMU it’s going to be even better in that the Pac will be truly balanced with an extended footprint.

instead of random black boxes that are eye sores? #tired and sad buff fan since 2005

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@Craig Meyer and I provide our postgame analysis on last night's match up.

Bummer

Worst offenses in D1 YTD
UMASS - 97 pts
CSU - 100 pts
CU - 130 pts
Iowa - 131 pts
UNM - 134 pts

Wow. Keeping good company I suppose with Iowa.

BZ: FB - Colorado football: Buffs rally, but fall to Sun Devils

BZ: FB - Rooney: Folsom Magic dissipates for CU Buffs amid harsh reality check from ASU

BZ: FB - Colorado football notes: Freshman Jordyn Tyson shines in Buffs’ loss

BZ: FB - Video: Analysis of CU Buffs’ loss to Arizona State

BZ: MBB - Charity exhibition against Nebraska a chance for Colorado men’s basketball to get right, give back

BZ: CU Buffs honors legends on Hall of Fame weekend

CU AD: FB - Buffs Rally Falls Short Vs. Arizona State

CU AD: FB - Buffs WR Tyson Delivers Big Plays

CU AD: SOC - Buffs Make Adjustments Ahead of No. 7 Stanford

CUATG Blog: FB - October 29th – Boulder: Arizona State 42, Colorado 34

Ralphie Report: FB - Bourguet, Valladay too much for Colorado as ASU rolls to 42-34 win

DP: FB - Keeler: Jim Leavitt might not be guy to cure CU Buffs football. But he knows what will.

Duck Territory: FB - Kickoff time announced for Oregon vs. Colorado in week 10

Yahoo Sports: FB - Quick recap: Defensive issues exposed in CU Buffs’ loss to Arizona State

Cheers!

As promised, here's my list of candidates for the CU coaching vacancy. It's mentioned in the story, but an important caveat here is that these are candidates I'd look at if I were the AD (which I'm obviously not). It's not necessarily who I think Rick George will choose

I had been compiling this list for a couple of weeks, once it became clear Dorrell wasn't going to be in Boulder too much longer, but if you've got any questions about the lists, candidates I included or didn't include, or whatever else, please don't hesitate to hit me up.

This is going to be a months' long search, so our plan is to update this board periodically based on any developments, reports or things that we learn

Greetings everyone, a chilly evening for some football. The Buffs and the Sun Devils kickoff at 5:30 tonight. Deion Smith and Anthony Hankerson are both suited up during warmups, but Smith is not listed on the running back lineup for today. Alex Fontenot is suited up as well, if he does play, he'll probably have limited carries.

Owen McCown is also suited up even though J.T. Shrout is the starter for today. Drew Carter at backup.

ASU will start QB Trenton Bourguet this evening, but if he's not playing well Emory Jones is likely to come in.

I'm sticking with CU 20 ASU 14 and @Craig Meyer has ASU 24 CU 16

Early expectations, score predictions, thoughts for tonight's game? ⬇️

We've got a full transcript of Mike Sanford's post-game press conference. He discussed, among other things, CU's defensive woes, Jordyn Tyson's big day, plans for Owen McCown and a possible redshirt, J.T. Shrout's performance and more

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Interim head coach Mike Sanford recaps the game, answers questions on the quarterback moving forward and provides his analysis on the both sides of the ball.

Deion Smith, Trevor Woods and Jordyn Tyson discuss the game, strides on offense and the difficulties on defense.

This kid is fantastic. How amazing is it to think he could be better than the legend that his dad was?

Some good games.

TCU still in the lead. Neither team looks great but TCU keeps finding a way to win which is always fun as it might cause a mess in the playoff.
FSU beating a really bad GT team.

Sadly ND getting it done against a massively overrated Syracuse team. Can’t win them all.

But happiness abounds —

Pedo State hung tough but finally Ohio State taking over and order is restored in the universe. (Now if PSU can just lose for the rest of eternity we will be close to real Justice).

Pretty ugly slate of games today.

Will keep track of teams Im hoping win today later:
KSU - hard to root against the mullet but I like an underdog

Wake - this could be a solid game
Tennessee - hoping to catch some of this one live this evening. Should be a great game and I like UT.
Illinois - hope Bielema does well there
Ole Miss - Can’t help myself dad. I’m sorry. I love State but can’t not root for the Lane Train
CU - hoping when I watch taped later it will be close and some good moments
UCLA - should roll but how do they respond against a perennially bad Stanford team that seems to be opportunistic each year against teams not paying attention.

Probably the last chance for a W. Let's Go Buffs!

1) CU Points - 17.5
2) ASU Points - 31.5
3) CU # 1st Downs by a completed Pass - 9.5
4) CU Total Rushing Attempts - 29.5
5) CU Pass Attempts - 29.5
6) ASU Net Rushing Yards - 165.5
7) CU longest made Field Goal - 38.5 yds (None made is zero)
8) # Tackles by Semendo and Woods combined - 18.5
9) ASU # 1st downs by a completed Pass - 11.5 yds
10) CU Average yards per pass attempt - 7.35 yds

TB1 - Total CU Punt return yds
TB2 - Total CU penalty yds

Four-star 2023 forward Assane Diop will be announcing his college commitment on Nov. 15. The 6-foot-10 Diop, who plays at Accelerated Prep in Lakewood, will be deciding between CU, Arkansas and Seton Hall. He'll be making the announcement along with his teammate Baye Fall, who is down to Arkansas, Rutgers, Auburn and Seton Hall

Diop is rated as the No. 110 player in the 2023 class, though ESPN has him at No. 56. Fall is the higher-rated of the two prospects, at No. 11 on Rivals, but Diop would obviously be a huge get for Tad Boyle and his staff. Rivals' FutureCast has Diop at 100% to Arkansas, so we'll see how things play out in a couple of weeks

Top of the heap... The Killer and Mr. Chuck Berry...