Tag: pac-12
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How Colorado State QB Hauss Hejny became Jim Mora’s trusted starter | Rams Gameday
FORT COLLINS — Last Friday, Jim Mora sought out Jesse and JimAnne Hejny. Ahead of his first game as the Colorado State coach, Mora had a message for the parents of his starting quarterback, their son, Hauss, after he broke down the team ahead of a rivalry matchup vs. Wyoming. “If we can play with…
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Pair of CSU Rams earn weekly Pac-12 awards
One week into being a part of the new-look Pac-12 and Colorado State is already leaving its mark. After taking down rival Wyoming by a final of 35-13 to kick off the 2026 season this past weekend in Fort Collins, the Rams earned a pair of player of the week honors from their new conference.…
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Rare Border War opener gives CSU a perfect chance to start a new era
FORT COLLINS — For decades, Labor Day weekend was reserved for a different kind of rivalry in the state of Colorado. When Colorado and Colorado State met nearly every year from 1985 to 2019, the Rocky Mountain Showdown was often the first game of the season for both programs. As the Rams begin the 2026…
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Why Colorado State, Fort Collins are perfect fit for Jim Mora | 2026 College Football Preview
FORT COLLINS — Jim Mora this summer discovered an added perk to being the new head football coach at Colorado State: ice cream. “In all the places I’ve ever lived, it has the best ice cream,” Mora said of Fort Collins. There’s just one caveat: the new Rams coach loves soft-serve ice cream. He and…
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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 Tyson Summers is excited to be back as CSU Rams defensive coordinator | College Football Insider
FORT COLLINS — When Tyson Summers left Canvas Stadium on Nov. 28 of last year, he had no idea what was next. The Georgia native was in a position he did not expect to be in — interim head coach — when he returned to Colorado State about 11 months earlier for a second stint…
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Colorado State’s annual reunion shows growth of basketball program entering Pac-12
FORT COLLINS — Ali Farokhmanesh’s only regret came when he saw the teams he put together actually take the floor. “We should not have put Kyle (Jorgensen) and (Isaiah Stevens) on the same team,” Farokhmanesh said. “I regret that decision because it’s just trash talk the whole game.” Everything else, though, was gravy. The second-year…
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Pac-12 preseason media poll: Boise State consensus champ in first year of new-look conference
The new-look Pac-12 is officially here. The first football games between the eight programs who make up the conference don’t begin until the first weekend of October, but it feels right that the west’s premier league is back in a meaningful way after Oregon State and Washington State fought to keep it alive following the…
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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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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…