Tag: College Football
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Big 12 preseason power poll: Where do Deion Sanders and Colorado rank?
FRISCO, Texas — The Big 12 is once again declining to do a preseason media poll, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun on our own, does it? The conference convenes Tuesday and Wednesday at the Dallas Cowboys headquarters’ ahead of its 30th season on the football field. Even with the Brendan Sorsby…
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Colorado position breakdown: Trio of transfers bring intrigue to linebacker position
In the Deion Sanders era, there’s a pretty evident correlation between good linebacker play and overall team success. In 2023, production wasn’t nearly consistent enough and the Colorado Buffaloes defense struggled on the whole to keep the team in games during a 4-8 season. In 2024, transfer Nikhai Hill-Green was a revelation, finishing second on…
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Friday Faceoff: How quickly can Colorado State win a Pac-12 football title?
The Pac-12 era arrived in Fort Collins on Wednesday. How quickly can Rams football win a championship in the new-look league? Tyler King, college sports reporter Answer: Within two years Athletic director John Weber didn’t hire Jim Mora to start another rebuild. CSU sold Mora on access to the College Football Playoff and Mora has…
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Colorado opponent preview: Plenty of turnover for Arizona State team still hoping to contend in Big 12
Kenny Dillingham came into the Big 12 guns ablazin’ in 2024. With the program’s first 11-win season in nearly 30 years, he led Arizona State to a conference championship in its first year in the league, nearly pulling off a stunning upset over Texas in the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff. The Sun Devils…
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Relaunch of Pac-12 a ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ for like-minded football programs with high expectations
Just a few weeks from the Pac-12’s big reintroduction as a player in college athletics, commissioner Teresa Gould sat on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. She was just a few feet from Hall of Fame coach Nick Saban with Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua and longtime academic administrator E. Gordon Gee in between. She…
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Meet the new Pac-12: Everything to know about 9 universities bringing back the West’s premier conference
Two years after the best of the West left it for dead, the Pac-12 has risen from the ashes. UCLA and USC was the first wave to exit. Then came Oregon and Washington and, later, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah, leaving Oregon State and Washington State behind to fend for themselves in the cutthroat…
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Colorado position breakdown: Brand-new defensive line room to rely on proven veterans
There was a clear philosophy shift this offseason in Boulder. In order to fix a defense that ranked last in the Big 12 in rushing defense and near the bottom of the conference in points per game allowed and sacks, Deion Sanders and his recruiting staff deviated from their typical approach of trying to bring…
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Colorado opponent preview: Kansas State enters new era led by Loveland native Collin Klein
Only five college football teams have played against Colorado more than Kansas State. With the likes of Nebraska and Oklahoma not in the new-look Big 12, the natural rivalry between the Buffaloes and Wildcats has become more pronounced in recent years with K-State coming across the border to nab talented players from along the Front…
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Where Colorado’s Julian ‘JuJu’ Lewis ranks among the 16 quarterbacks | 2026 Big 12 football preview
The countdown can begin. We’re officially under 100 days until the start of the 2026 college football season. To get you ready, The Denver Gazette will preview the upcoming campaign throughout the month of June with a four-part series on the Big 12, ahead of the conference’s annual media days in early July in Frisco,…
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Colorado position breakdown: Spots on new-look offensive line up for grabs heading into fall camp
It’s rare for a college football program to have an offensive lineman as its main star, but that was Deion Sanders and Colorado in 2025, thanks to Jordan Seaton. That would’ve been the case again this fall, but the likely future first-round NFL draft pick at left tackle left Boulder after two seasons, winding up…