2016 Colorado

Submitted by Frank Chuck on

Buffaloes just beat the Ducks 41-38 in Eugene.

Stats and Notes:

– In the 1st half: Colorado's back-up freshman QB Steven Montez was 17/20 for 217 yards with 2 TDs while the run game had 134 yards. That's 351 yards in one half of football.

– Colorado amassed 600+ yards of offense in the game. (Buffs took knees which lowered the stats.)

– Go check out Bryce Bobo's twisting catch for the go-ahead score. He made an incredible one-handed catch on a back-shoulder throw. It was initially ruled an incompletion but correctly overturned into a TD after review. (He caught and possessed the ball with one hand.)

– Colorado intercepted Oregon QB Dakota Prukop in the endzone to seal the game. Ducks were in the redzone so this was an especially costly mistake because Oregon could have tied it up with a FG to force overtime.

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lhglrkwg

September 25th, 2016 at 12:24 PM ^

giving up 41 points is putting your offense in a position to lose. Usually you'd say you put your offense in a position to win when you only give up 10 or something like that. I know it's a rebuild job over there but in no way was the defense helping the offense today

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Blue Durham

September 24th, 2016 at 10:27 PM ^

at an unimaginative cheap shot at an ex-coach (whom I am on record as never liking the hire or results) by a poster that couldn't even spell all 10 words of his derisive post properly.

Hoke may have his faults, but at least he is active in his profession at the absolute highest level. Which is more than virtually everyone here, including me, can say.

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Danwillhor

September 24th, 2016 at 10:46 PM ^

I just don't like him as the UM HC. If he were interested in taking over for GMatt when he retired I'd turn him down (ha) but only because of the potential awkwardness. He's a great recruiter and DL coach. Anything more than that needs to be done at the non-P5 level. Go back to SDSU or Ball State as he's not a great football mind but he can get kids to come to the school he works at and he's a decent MAC level HC.

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I Like Burgers

September 25th, 2016 at 9:30 AM ^

Using ESPN's FPI, Colorado is favored against Oregon St., Arizona St., Arizona, Washington St., and Utah.  That would get them to 8 wins.  FPI currently has them dogs against USC, Stanford and UCLA, but there's a chance that changes after the numbers get updated after week 4.  Either way, I could see them winning one of those games.  That gets them to 9 wins.  Throw in a bowl game win and boom, 10 wins.

 

Sunday AM Edit: The updated FPI numbers have them favored in all games but at USC and at Stanford.  They also ranked Colorado as #29 overall.

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M_Born M_Believer

September 24th, 2016 at 10:55 PM ^

But I agree, I think they will win the PAC-12 South.  They have Utah and UCLA in Boulder, they do not play Washington.  No one in the South looks very impressive and what they showed last week here was enough to see that they can move the ball and score.  Plus they have enough players on D to at least slow down the opposition.

 

When this season is over with, it will be Michigan's win over Colorado that will be viewed as a bigger triumph compare to Sparty's win over LOL ND.

 

I am leaning more towards they go 7-2 in the PAC 12 South....

@ Oregon - W 41-38

10/1 - vs Oregon St - win

10/8 - @USC - lose but I would not be surprised if they win this one...

10/15 - ASU - win

10/22 - @ Stanford - Loss

11/3 - UCLA - win

11/12 - @ Arizona - win

11/19 - WASSU - win

11/26 - Utah - win

I can see where UCLA and Utah will be challenging, but they have both of them at home 

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Commie_High96

September 24th, 2016 at 9:18 PM ^

Buffs are good. Stanford beats them, but they could easily win the other seven games. They get the other tough games at home. Not like going to USC or Arizona is bad this year. They could certainly achieve 10 wins. They only have 3 road games the rest of the season!

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SpikeFan2016

September 24th, 2016 at 9:14 PM ^

Colorado will 100% be a bowl team this year and has a realistic chance of winning the PAC 12 South. 

 

Our non-conference win will keep looking better and better. 

 

It already is the 2nd best Big Ten non-conference win last week (Better than both MSU and Nebraska). 

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