Cortez Mills will be a Nebraska recruit on Saturday but he says the Buffs are pushing for a flip of his Oklahoma commitment as well. LSU is, too.

Hope everyone is having a great Holiday Weekend

For the first time if my old memory is correct we have a tie for first (predicted same score)
@jimp1968 as well as my self had 35CU 24 NDSU 6 point total- Since I disqualify myself
CONGRATS @jimp1968 on the WIN~!

Second place was a 3 way ties but with a clear winner, everyone predicted Colorado to win.
@Colorado76 and @NittanyBuff24 (good to see you at the game by the way) both had 9 points
But Second place goes to @mopper999 as he predicted the CU score exactly.
Congrats for 2nd place to @mopper999

Let's go Buffs!

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SI: FB - Shedeur Sanders called "Dirty" for not managing clock against North Dakota State

SI: FB - Deion Sanders provides injury update for Colorado defender following opener (Coach Prime hopes his starting safety will be available for Nebraska)

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Cheers!

I will be there next weekend and I don’t want to watch the game surrounded by a bunch of losers wearing red. TIA

NU -7
OU floating around 60

Not FCS but bad G5

Just rewatched some of the game and now feel better than I did last night. Opportunities for significant run gains were there. I hope they mix in more straight runs to allow the rbs a chance to get to the LOS with some momentum. Also the bubble screens show great potential, Horn’s drop could have been a TD. A few draws or a shovel pass will keep the LBs and safeties off the LOS. If the OL can keep QBSS clean with 5 or 6 rushers, a great passing game will open up the middle of the field for the RBs. Our big guys need to seal their guys off and create lanes and not worry about the

The Big-12 had an unsurprising first weekend at football. Of the sixteen schools, fourteen won, the only losses being WVU to Penn State (anticipated) and Houston to UNLV (not antiicpated.) Only two of the opponents were Power 4 -- WVU/Penn State, and TCU's win against Stanford. The TCU game was the only Big-12 contest not played at home.

Big-12 attendance for the first weekend, not all that stunning, was as follows:

1. BYU/Southern Illinois: 63,712
2. WVU/PSU: 62,084
3. Texas Tech/Abilene Christian: 60,229
4. ISU/North Dakota: 56,148
5. Utah/Southern Utah: 52,210
6. Ok State/South Dakota St: 52,202
7. KSU/UT Martin: 51,240
8. CU/ND State: 49,438
9. ASU/Wyoming: 48,108
10. Arizona/New Mexico: 44,748
11. UCF/New Hampshire: 44,206
12. Baylor/Tarleton St: 42,272
13. Cincy/Towson St: 37,654
14. Houston/UNLV: 25,750
15. Kansas/Lindenwood: 20,829

(Road game, TCU at Stanford: 36,026)

Troy breaks down his five takeaways from last night:

Sounds about right

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CU AD: FB - Takeaways From Buffs' Season-Opening Victory Over NDSU

CU AD: VB - Volleyball Buffs Fall to Hurricanes in Three

CU AD: SOC - Net Growth - CU goalkeeper Jordan Nytes continues to develop her game

SI: FB - Shedeur Sanders has better odds as Cowboys QB than Dak Prescott, former NFL GM says (Buffaloes "Grown" QB already having the best of the NFL discussion after win over NDST)

On3: FB - Colorado vs Nebraska odds: Updated point spread released, How to Watch

Buffs Wire: FB - Coach Prime praises Jimmy Horn Jr.'s resiliency following career night

Cheers!

Football is back! Buffs kicking off vs NDSU in about 40 minutes.

A few notes from the depth chart:
Nikhai Hill-Green is not listed at LB
Offerdahl RB1
No Amari McNeill, Quency Wiggins or Tyler Johnson

Will post some more pregame stuff below before kick!

NU gets 1 sack against UTEP on 26 passes. I have not seen the game but the BUffs OLINE must be better than UTEP right? Last year QBSS got knocked around like the 1 pin at a bowling alley. Between that and their freshman QB not looking like much of a run threat, maybe there's a chance?

I posted this as a response to another thread, but I think it deserves its own conversation.

Looking at the box score NDSU accumulated 157 yd on the ground, and 81 of those yards were or from the quarterback. Simple math says the rest of the team got 76 yards on the ground.

This is on top of 292 yd passing, with one TD.

Absent the quarterback's running they had 382 yards of total offense. If we can do that consistently game in and game out, that's top 50 in terms of total defense.

#1 That quarterback is damn good. He is their offense.

#2 I Don't understand why CU didn't put a spy on him in order to contain him from a running standpoint. But this also speaks to a lack of gap discipline on the part of the defensive line and LB's which is something that can be fixed and needs to be fixed.

#3 If you eliminate the explosion please these numbers look even better.

The bottom line for me is that these are all fixable issues.

... like a running game and stopping the run, what are some things you hope to see vs NDSU? A few on my list (in no particular order) :

• Disciplined play, including no stupid penalties - especially for taunting/retaliation.
• Improved clock/time out management by HC
• No 12 men on the field penalties due to coaches indecision/poor communication
• Improved open field tackling by DBs - including #12
• TE involved in the offense at least a bit so D has to think about it.
• Seaton holding his own @ LT
• Seeing the team sing the Fight Song after a Win.

Go Buffs! 🦬

Could have just ran it out last drive of the game and NDSU wouldn’t have gotten the ball back.

And we can’t leave our defense out there the entire game, need to slow it down on offense sometimes

I’ll be catching at least some of the NU game to see what I can from it.

I don’t buy into the 7-0 thing so many pundits are preaching. However, I have followed their recruiting and portal and they have a solid team with decent depth. Definitely look like a 7-8 win team given their schedule.

Want to see what the DL looks like along with RB and QB. Lots of good press on all three groups but NU is also a blue blood and so you have to take that with a grain of salt as the media would love to have a powerful NU again. It makes for good football.

This one could be ugly if we don’t figure out the OL and middle of the field on D. Last year NU had no QB. If they had even a decent QB that game may have looked very different. This year they have one. He’s a freshman but he is going to be very good. Hopefully it’s not until late in the season as he grows.

I’ve had this one as a loss since preseason but felt it would be close and could be a 3 pt game either way. After last night, if major change isn’t made, I see a world where they return the favor from last year and win by 2 scores.

Curious where others sit after last night and our inability to control the line of scrimmage against an FCS team

Here's an immediate game breakdown and all the highlights.

Nikki will add more to this after interviews.

Is there a depth chart available somewhere?

His knee got twisted and it did not look good.
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CUATG Blog: FB - CU/NDSU draws 4.8 million viewers (best ESPN Thursday opener since 2017)

Ralphie Report: FB - Grades: Travis Hunter, Shedeur Sanders shine in Week 1 win over NDSU

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On3: FB - Nick Saban evaluates Colorado after Week 1 win over North Dakota State

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Buffs Wire: FB - Five standout player performances from Colorado vs. NDSU

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Cheers!

Everyone same rules as last year. I take the difference from your guess and the actual and add them up lowest points win. Example, Prediction CU-35 SDSU-28, Final Score CU-42 SDSU-31, 42-35 = 7 and 31-28=3 total score 10. Tie breakers are Picking the winner right, then CU score closest second
Spread= 9.5
O/U = 58.5

CU 35
NDSU 24