*** Colorado hosted some recruits, believe it or not, after the departure of coach Karl Dorrell. Three-star safety Adrian Wilson and three-star linebacker Victory Johnson are both in town for official visits when the Buffaloes host Cal.

Congrats to the BUFFS!! Way to go guys - keep it going!
And congrats to Original Stats. He went 9 of 10 this weekend to take the lead.
Note that players shown in gold are paid, those in red are playing for fun. Season Standings are at the bottom.

Week 6 results:
1) 9 pts - Original Stats
2) 8 pts - Buff Aloha, CRBuff, Buff Ticket, GoPokes242424, rward
3) 7 pts - buffskickbut, ldbuff, BuffFan42
4) 6 pts - NCBuff1
5) 5 pts - SoCoBuff
6) 4 pts - Dtownbuff, Longtimebuff1
7 ) 0 pts - CoachCody27, buffalo52565, DBBUFF, Forecast6236

Items:
1) CU Total Points - 17.5 : Actual = 20 Over
2) Cal Total Points - 31.5 : Actual = 13 Under
3) CU Passing Yards - 177.5 : Actual = 210 Over
4) CUs Total Rushing Yards - 222.5 yards: Actual = 118 yards Under
5) Cal Passing Yards - 326.5 : Actual = 262 Under
6) Cal Longest Play - 53.5 yards : Actual = 24 Under
7) CU Avg Yds per Play - 5.65 - Actual = 4.8 Under
8) CU QB % - 54.55 : Actual = 64.7 Over
9) CU Longest Rush - 21.5 : Actual = 18 Under
10) CU Time of Possession - 27.95 mins : Actual = 29.9 Mins Over

Tiebreaker #1 - CU Tackles for Loss: Actual = 10 (Way to go D)
Tiebreaker #2 - CU 1st Downs: Actual = 17

Season Standings:
1) 38 pts - Original Stats
2) 35 pts - SoCo Buff, Buff Ticket
3) 34 pts - buffskickbut, Longtimebuff1, BuffFan42, GoPokes242424
4) 33 pts - ldbuff, CRBuff
5) 31 pts - dtownbuff, Buff Aloha
6) 28 pts - rward
7) 25 pts - NCBuff1
8) 18 pts - Buffalo52565
9) 13 pts - Coachcody27
10) 10 pts - DBBUFF
11) 5 pts - Forecast6236

If you think I made a mistake let me know asap.

Wren Baker, North Texas​

Position: Athletic director
+ Has been North Texas’ AD since 2016
+ Overseeing UNT’s move from Conference USA to the AAC; UNT becomes an AAC member in July 2023
+ During his tenure, UNT athletics has registered the four best fundraising years in its history
+ Under Baker’s leadership, North Texas teams have won a combined 17 conference or division championships
+ Went to UNT from Missouri, where he spent two years (2015-16) as deputy athletic director. At Mizzou, he led the athletic department’s external relations team, including marketing
+ Was Missouri’s interim athletic director before being hired at North Texas
+ Was Memphis’ deputy athletic director (2013-15) and the sport administrator for the Tigers’ men’s basketball team
+ From 2011-13, Baker was athletic director at Division II Northwest Missouri State. He hired football coach Adam Dorrel, who led the Bearcats to three national championships
+ Was the first AD at Rogers State (2006-11), a Division II school in Claremore, Okla., that began athletics in 2006. He also was the school’s first men’s basketball coach and guided the team to a 20-11 record in his one season as the head coach
+ In 2005, he became principal and athletic director for Valliant (Okla.) Public Schools and, at age 26, was the youngest principal in Oklahoma history
+ An alum of Southeastern Oklahoma State (class of 2001). Earned a master’s degree from Oklahoma State, where he was a graduate assistant and then basketball operations assistant for the men’s basketball program under Eddie Sutton.

Marcus Bowman, Oklahoma​

Position: Deputy athletic director/chief financial officer and business strategy
+ Been in current role since August 2020
+ Oversees all fiscal and business operations. Serves as sport administrator for the Sooners men’s basketball team
+ Was at UNLV from 2017-20, serving as senior associate AD and chief financial officer.
+ Spent 2006-17 at Pitt in a variety of roles, eventually being promoted to senior associate AD for sport administration. Started at Pitt as director of business operations
+ An alum of Pitt (class of 2006), where he played basketball

Tommy Gray, Stanford​

Position: Deputy athletic director, external relations
+ Hired at Stanford in 2014 as a business strategy manager. Promoted into current role in 2018
+ Oversees all external relations functions, including corporate partnerships, fan experience, marketing and ticket operations
+ Is secondary sport administrator for football and main sport administrator for softball and the men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs
+ Before Stanford, he led the market research and strategy department for the New England Patriots and the Kraft Sports Group from 2011-13
+ A Harvard alum (class of 2010); was co-captain of swimming and diving team as a senior

Hello.
After one of the wildest weekends in college football yet, which saw Alabama fall and Colorado score its first win of the year among a host of other interesting results, ESPN College GameDay host Kirk Herbstreit has revealed his top performing teams of Week 7.

It’s a lengthier list than usual, with several programs notching head-turning results.

Tennessee takes the top spot following its thrilling home win over Alabama, which came down to the wire in an instant classic and quite possibly the game of the year. But the Volunteers weren’t the only ones who earned a hat tip from Herbstreit.

Here are Herbie’s top 10 performing teams:

1. Tennessee Volunteers
2. Michigan Wolverines
3. Utah Utes
4. TCU Horned Frogs
5. Syracuse Orange
6. Illinois Fighting Illini
7. Georgia Southern Eagles
8. Colorado Buffaloes
9. Old Dominion Monarchs
10. Stanford Cardinal

@Craig Meyer provided his thoughts and observations after Saturday's scrimmage ⬇️

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HC Tad Boyle discussed their open scrimmage touching on the players' performances and what he wants to see moving forward.

Wow going for 2...

Yesterday was one of those special college football Saturdays where the unimaginable becomes a reality, but even before kickoff, Sanford believed that his team would come up big. In two weeks, Sanford and the coaching staff re-instilled that belief into the Buffs and all the mentions of "energy" during the bye came to fruition at Folsom.

Dude is some self-annoited OL/DL guru with alleged coaching ties to the McCartney teams. But when I Google his real name (William Gardner), I get crickets.

They treat this guy like everything he says comes from the Burning Bush, but half the time, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Deion Sanders now 6-0 this season, 11-2 last season, said this to reporter Jon Wertheim on 60 minutes:

Jon Wertheim: What happens when a Power 5 school says give us a number and we'll make it work?

Deion Sanders: I'm gonna have to entertain it.

Jon Wertheim: You are?

Deion Sanders: Yes. I'm gonna have to entertain it. Straight up. I'd be a fool not to.

Interesting!

Mickey Joseph (Nebraska) lost to Oklahoma
Shaun Aguano (ASU) lost to Utah
Brent Key (Ga Tech) beat Pitt
Mike Sanford (Colorado) beat Cal
Jim Leonhard (Wisconsin) beat Northwestern

It was tough to narrow it down to five, but here are the five biggest takeaways from Colorado's overtime victory against Cal yesterday

No one was really close but surprised how many picked CU
@CRBuff wins! with 18 points off
@wvanherc had 18 points as well but picked CAL

Congrats @CRBuff

I had a conversation today with a CU fan who said he had spoken with Rick George recently about CU’s recruit transfer policy. According to this fan RG was annoyed when asked about CU’s transfer policy and said that CU would be making a great hire. You could say a lot of negative things about RG, but one that he is not? RG is not a fool! He has been AD at CU for long enough to either feel there is nothing that needs to be changed about the transfer policy or he has been told by higher ups that no changes will be made. I have to assume that RG has had conversations with other AD’s and with coaches at CU to know that the buffs are not able to recruit on an equal level as many other schools. My guess is that RG wants to keep his million dollar salary job, so he keeps his mouth shut. As I said, the man is not a fool.

. . . night and day.

Well done Coach Sanford.


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BAsed on how this team played today, was anybody coaching prior to two weeks ago? BTW, what was Sanford doing in weeks 1-5? These were the same players but not the same play at all. SAnfords gonna have to win a few more games, get a few strong recruits to commit and explain few things before i'd give him the keys to the sports car. I am really PO'd and skeptical about any of these coaches sticking around after running our program off the road and onto a trash heap.

How many programs in this country fill their stadium for an 0-5 team that has been so hard to watch for soooo long? This is a top 25 program in waiting for a coach that has a brain, a heartbeat and who doesnt think a $15 million guaranteed contract allows a guy to sleep on the job. Sanford has not earned the right to lead this team after participating in our 0-5 debacle - he's lucky ADRG did not kick his butt out the door w Dorrel and Wilson. I'm all for a firey coach but where was the fire the first 5 weeks of the season.
What a shame

Thank you for the support of my GoFundMe to help us get to this game. https://gofund.me/ac439520 has Thank you to @SoCo Buff for donating tickets to a virtual soldout game. Thank you for sharing the euphoria of the fan base during the whole game and especially at the end!

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S Trevor Woods and Josh Chandler-Semedo discussed the improvements on defense and what winning this game meant to them and the program.

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RB Anthony Hankerson and WR Montana Lemonious-Craig discuss executing their big plays, playing for interim HC Mike Sanford and the energy during the game.

Yea!!