Tag: big 12
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Multiple Colorado players recognized by Big 12 for Week 1 performance
The Thursday night primetime kickoff helped a national audience see Colorado’s season-opening win at Georgia Tech, but the Big 12 is making sure no one quickly forgets. The Buffaloes were well-represented on the conference’s first weekly awards of the 2026 season, with Lamont Lester Jr. winning Big 12 co-defensive player of the week, while safety…
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Colorado, Colorado State and Air Force season predictions | 2026 College Football Preview
Colorado’s FBS programs begin the 2026 season this week with Coach Prime’s Buffs at Georgia Tech on Thursday, while Air Force and Colorado State begin Saturday at home. Will it be more of the same from last season, when the three teams combined for just nine wins and zero bowl appearances? Or will they take…
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Why Deion Sanders trusts Brennan Marion to lead Colorado turnaround | 2026 College Football Preview
BOULDER — When Brennan Marion got his first head coaching job at St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School in Vallejo, Calif., he was told fielding a team would be a success. He did, then went 5—6 a year after the previous two seasons saw four wins combined. The following year, he returned home to the Pittsburgh…
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Full 12-team playoff field, championship game predictions for 2026-27 season | College Football Insider
Let’s try this again, shall we? OK, so my preseason College Football Playoff picks last year weren’t great. I picked Penn State to win it all and Nittany Lions coach James Franklin was fired midseason. I had Clemson as the other team in the national championship game and the Tigers went 7-6, their worst win…
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Colorado wide receivers healthy, ready to shine in ‘GoGo’ offense
BOULDER — The moment was fleeting, but it was still enough to prompt a call to Rashad Davis afterward. “‘Coach, it’s over,’” the Colorado wide receivers coach said was the message when his talented quartet of Danny Scudero, DeAndre Moore, Kam Perry and Joseph Williams finally got on the field together for the first time…
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Former walk-on Brady Kopetz wants you to know the 2026 CU Buffs have deep bond
BOULDER — Pick a number from 1-99 and Brady Kopetz will tell you who’s worn it during his time on the Colorado football team. Considering the Portland native is entering his fifth season with the program — one of two “OBs,” or Original Buffaloes, remaining on the roster from the pre-Deion Sanders era, along with…
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Colorado’s Ben Finneseth enters final season aiming to secure legacy that extends beyond time in Boulder
It’s a tale Ben Finneseth probably has told dozens of times, but that doesn’t mean it gets old. It’s the defining story of how he got to where he is now: a key leader of the Colorado Buffaloes heading into his sixth and final season of college football. As the story goes, it was the…
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Colorado position breakdown: Punter Damon Greaves headlines group of specialists
For the third straight year, Colorado is hoping for improved special teams play with fall camp right around the corner. That phase of the game has yet to be a strength under Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes enter the 2026 season without a dedicated special-teams coach with the staff planning to split duties. Despite having…
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Colorado opponent preview: First trip to Cincinnati caps Buffs’ 2026 road slate
The new-look Big 12 has and will continue to provide Colorado with a mix of familiar and new road trips. Over the course of the Buffaloes’ first two seasons back in the conference, road games against fellow Pac-12 defectors felt normal, while trips to places like Lubbock, Texas, and Manhattan, Kan., for the first time…
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Buffs’ newcomers the key to big improvement in secondary | Colorado position breakdown
There is a real chance the Colorado defense has 11 new starters when it takes the field Sept. 3 at Georgia Tech. It would make sense, too. The Buffaloes ranked at or near the bottom of the Big 12 in most statistical defensive categories during 2025’s 3-9 campaign. Defensive coordinator Robert Livingston returned to the…