Tag: College Football
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Colorado opponent preview: Big 12 play begins with first trip to Baylor since 2007
When Colorado opens Big 12 play in Week 4, every Baylor fan inside McLane Stadium will have revenge on their mind. The Buffaloes and Bears will meet that day for the first time since Sept. 21, 2024 — also a Big 12 opener — and no one who was in Folsom Field for that meeting…
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Colorado football learns three more kickoff times with TV assignments
It’s time to start planning those tailgates. Colorado’s home opener against FCS program Weber State will kick off at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, with coverage on ESPN+. The game time was announced Wednesday as part of the Big 12’s rollout of football kick times. The Buffaloes also learned their Week 3 trip to Northwestern…
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Full Colorado State football schedule announced with kickoff times, TV assignments
The first season of the Jim Mora era won’t be hard to find on your TV screens. Colorado State announced its complete 2026 football schedule Wednesday ahead of its first season in the new-look Pac-12. But before the adventure begins in the revamped conference, the Rams will kick off against their biggest rival with the…
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Colorado opponent preview: Trip to Northwestern concludes nonconference play
Folsom Field will have competition for best view at a Colorado football game this fall. The banks of Lake Michigan will host the Buffaloes’ road game at Northwestern that will conclude this year’s nonconference schedule. The game will be the final one at Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium, the lacrosse and soccer stadium that…
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Colorado opponent preview: 2026 home slate begins against FCS Weber State
Deion Sanders likely won’t be bringing up his latest home opener against an FCS opponent at this year’s Big 12 media days. Two years ago in Las Vegas, while on the main stage at Allegiant Stadium, Coach Prime said what everyone was thinking about his Colorado team’s 2024 season opener against FCS powerhouse North Dakota…
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CU Buffs opponent preview: 2026 season kicks off in Atlanta vs. Georgia Tech
Year four of the Coach Prime era begins in a city that still reveres him. When Colorado heads to Atlanta for the Sept. 3 opener at Georgia Tech, it will be the program’s first game in the city known affectionately as “A-Town” — but that doesn’t mean it won’t be full of people cheering on…
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San Jose State transfer Danny Scudero already becoming ‘role model’ for CU Buffs wide receivers
BOULDER — Just a few months after joining the Colorado program, Danny Scudero was already used by Deion Sanders as an example for his new Buffaloes teammates. “You see him, how he’s dressed. That’s how I want all of y’all to dress. You see him, how he plays. That’s how I want every last one…
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Colorado football: Inside the CU Buffs’ player-led culture shift for 2026
BOULDER — As Ben Finneseth watched Indiana do what the college football world thought for decades was unthinkable — win a national championship — a thought popped into his head. “Why can’t that happen here?” The unequivocal leader of the Colorado football team, Finneseth is entering his sixth season as a former walk-on safety out…
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New-look CU Buffs flash speed, playmaking ability in spring game
BOULDER — Gone are the ESPN cameras, and even free tickets weren’t enough to get remotely close to filling Folsom Field. The 2026 Colorado football spring game was the fourth of the Deion Sanders era, and it lacked even an ounce of the luster that the snowy Boulder debut did for Coach Prime and his…
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Mark Kiszla: Coach Prime running out of time to prove pay-for-play can win for Buffs
BOULDER – After a 3-9 record turned the Buffs from We Comin’ to They Goin’ faster than you can say transfer portal, all the bombast of Coach Prime has been replaced with sober reflection by Deion Sanders. His CU football program is in trouble. It is at a crossroads. Make a wrong turn here, and…