5 1/2 is the win total for the Buffaloes.
The over has a slight bit of juice.
Is six wins and bowl eligibility enough?
Hey, it would be growth for a team that won
just a single game under Carl Darrell back in
2022. In 2023 they won four,
although they lost their final six games of the year
and now six wins in year two in their first
year back in the Big 12 would be a step
in the right direction. But is it a step in
the right direction in the way that Dion Sanders has
constructed his Buffalo roster?
VRS the first week of the year,
opening Thursday night of the season,
there is going to be so many eyeballs on
Colorado's opener, which would be the case.
But now in a stand alone prime time game on
Thursday,
August 29th, it ratchets up just a little bit more
and Colorado opens the year against an FCS opponent.
You hear those words you would probably say,
hey, it's a game the Buffaloes are going to win
by at least multiple touchdowns.
I'm not so sure. Colorado takes on North Dakota State,
the powerhouse of F CES Football 4 championships at the
FCS level for the Bison in the last seven years
in Colorado,
despite being at Folsom Field in Boulder,
is only about a touchdown and a hook
favorite. It's a game Colorado must win.
It's a game that will protect,
that will put out so many reactions regardless of the
result.
If Colorado makes a statement,
the Buffs are back. If the Bison win,
it's an unshaky start to year number two of the
Deion Sanders era in Boulder.
Absolutely, and I love that too,
because we are going to watch that football game for
all the wrong reasons and a lot of the right
reasons where you're just looking to get down at a
wager on that game. But you want to see how
good Sanders is in year #2 here at Colorado.
But you're right about that.
It's usually you get the layup,
you play a Bethune Cookman,
you pay a team, a NW Directional school at this
point,
not an FCS champion who you know is not going
to be too big for the moment.
When they step on the field at Falson Field to
take on the Buffaloes,
that'll be a fun one to watch.
And you're right, we had a referendum last year when
Colorado won game one against CCO.
Oh my God, Deal might run the table.
Look what he did overnight.
This is impressive. And they sort of rode that momentum.
And then we started to see like,
closer games against teams like Colorado State,
where they probably should have lost to,
quite frankly, last year. Like,
OK, maybe they're not as good as we thought they
were.
And Ben pointed out that collapse at the end of
the season.
It's up to them to get off to another hot
start,
because you're right about this.
Colorado is expected to win game number one against an
FCS opponent.
If they lose that game,
it just feels like open season on Colorado,
both should Dora Sanders and Deon Sanders at that point.
So when you're talking about entering in your first game,
which you want to get one and O off on
the right foot,
there's a lot of animosity heading up to that game
and you're playing a quality opponent here,
not a layup.