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Setting the Standard

//posted 12.30.2024

Overall, the 2024 Colorado football team exceeded the expectations of pretty much everyone who doesn’t have an office or a locker in the CU Champions Center.

Las Vegas set the bar at 5.5 wins for the season. The Big 12 media picked the Buffs to finish 11th.

Now, even after 36-14 a blowout loss to BYU in the Alamo Bowl, leaving CU with a five-game losing streak in bowls, a 20-year drought since the Buffs’ last bowl victory, and an 0-4 all-time record in San Antonio, there are positives to consider.

Don’t get me wrong, losing another bowl game – and another Alamo Bowl – in embarrassing fashion, is not to be discounted. The deficits along CU’s offensive line, from failing to generate a rushing attack to failing to protect the quarterback, were again painfully obvious. CU hasn’t won a bowl game since 2004, and has now been mauled in three straight Alamo Bowls.

It sucks.

Buff fans are licking their wounds after another disappointing postseason effort, but those wounds will heal.

For only the second time in the past 20 seasons, there is reason to believe that the CU program is not only good … but has the ability to stay that way.

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Thanks, Shedeur

//posted 12.30.2024

Entering the 2024 season, Buff quarterback Shedeur Sanders was listed as one of the top quarterbacks in the nation, and a likely first round NFL Draft pick. Despite having been on the CU campus for only one season, Sanders was already setting numerous school records.

As the 2024 season unfolded, Sanders continued to set new standards for excellence at Colorado.

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Colorado Daily

//posted 12.28.2024

Game Day! … Daily Camera – Five Cougars to Watch … Neill Woelk’s Keys to the Alamo Bowl … *Coach Prime/Coach Sitake Alamo Bowl Press conference* … Jimmy Horn grateful for first bowl game: “I cherish this. I’m just ready” …

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Big 12 Notes

//posted 12.27.2024

Former Buff Dylan Edwards leads Kansas State over Rutgers in Rate Bowl … Where are they now? How former Buffs fared in 2024 at their new schools …

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Friday Fast Facts

//posted 12.26.2024

The Alamo Bowl represents CU’s 31st all-time bowl appearance … CU is 8-3-1 all-time v. BYU … The Buffs have out-gained the Cougars this season – by two yards …

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Notre Dame wasn’t a great team in 1994, but it was fitting that Coach Mac would go out against the Irish … Buffs dominate the Fiesta Bowl, with Kordell Stewart, Rashaan Salaam, and Michael Westbrook going out in style …

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“T.I.P.S.” for CU v. BYU

//posted 12.24.2024

BYU has a very solid offense, with a running quarterback which could pose problems for the CU defense … Which team will be better prepared? Which team wants a bowl win more? Which team needs it more? … Let’s find out …

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Will CU’s defense, without Nikhai Hill-Green, be able to handle BYU’s dual-threat quarterback? … Will there be a hangover for the Buffs after Travis Hunter’s magical week? … Can the Buffs bring home win No. 10, finally defeating the “River Walk Curse”? … Let’s find out …

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Pre-Hunter, CU players had won ten major awards – Travis Hunter has now won seven, including CU’s second Heisman Trophy … Despite Hunter’s stats, the Heisman vote was the smallest margin of victory since 2009 …

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Transfer Portal News

//posted 12.14.2024

Transfer Portal list tops 1,500; 31% are repeats … Arizona Transfer Portal list hits 30; All-Big 12 receiver T-Mac Declares for the NFL Draft … Coach Prime’s message to players entering the Transfer Portal …

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CBS Big 12 Grades: CU & ASU get an “A+”; Oklahoma State gets an “F” … From the Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl to the Pop Tarts Bowl, Big 12 bowl lineup set … CU No. 9 in the nation in average viewers per game (only Big 12 team in the Top 25) …

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CU Recruiting Class of 2025

//posted 12.10.2024

(12/10) CU receives a commitment from Elliott Arnold, a Class of 2025 kicker from Chattanooga … Arnold listed as a “five-star” kicker by Kohl’s Professional Camps …

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