2024 Game 1 Official Thread: NDSU @ COLORADO on ESPN at 6

[Birch1]

Livingston calmed down in the second half and made proper adjustments. There are still many questions about him as a coach and his unit but they bent instead of breaking. Shurmur made some questionable calls and was bailed out by talent. Resisting playing for the highlight and instead playing for the win needs to be emphasized consisting how the final play of the game played out. Tactical coaching mistakes are still present and they nearly contributed to a loss. Having to blow two time outs to avoid delay of game on the game winning drive is a bad sign. The team got lucky and escaped with a win, but cleaning up mistakes needs to happen.

Prime isn't the type of coach to have stellar clock management either. It's not in his DNA, we saw the catastrophic tragedy that was the second half against Stanford last season. They didn't learn from that. So we just have to deal with it.

 

[BuffWarHog]

NDSU is a damn good team. If they moved up and joined the MWC, like JMU they would win 8+ immediately and maybe win the conference.

I thought we played good football. Need to keep developing in the trenches, but a pretty solid baseline.

How do you see this performance through the lens of Neb on the road, OSU, Utah, KSU, Arizona? For me, it doesn’t bode well.

 

[dio]

I can start another CU season melting down about a game. Just gonna enjoy the week and enjoy the meltdown on /cfb

 

[Medford M.]

People we're upset about LB play tonight?!

Weird folks around here.

Aside from Woods allowing that big play on the first drive, they were solid.

You know who was awful? Shiloh and Cam.

 

[Medford M.]

philby, take the W. yeah, any power conference team would have beat our arses tonight. but i do suspect we don't make the same play calls against auburn or similar as we did against the junior league team.

that was a very important growth game for our players and our coaches.

Lol at thinking NDSU is some patty cake. That team gives the same game to at least half our schedule if it's week one.

 

[Birch1]

People we're upset about LB play tonight?!

Weird folks around here.

Aside from Woods allowing that big play on the first drive, they were solid.

You know who was awful? Shiloh and Cam.

Cam came out injured pretty early on, I think. Looked like he went in low and head down, but jogged off. I don't remember seeing him after that.

 

[Darth Snow]

People we're upset about LB play tonight?!

Weird folks around here.

Aside from Woods allowing that big play on the first drive, they were solid.

You know who was awful? Shiloh and Cam.

Shiloh played well outside of the penalty. He kept a lot of plays from being back breakers with sure tackling.

 

[Medford M.]

How do you see this performance through the lens of Neb in the road, OSU, Utah, KSU, Arizona? For me, it doesn’t bode well.

We should have beat UA last year, and we were a much worse team last year.

 

[Buffnik]

How do you see this performance through the lens of Neb in the road, OSU, Utah, KSU, Arizona? For me, it doesn’t bode well.

I think they're better than Nebraska

 

[Medford M.]

Shiloh played well outside of the penalty. He kept a lot of plays from being back breakers with sure tackling.

I like his tackling. I don't like his lack of speed and poor coverage.

 

[BuffUp]

Don't remember hearing Greens name being called?

 

[Birch1]

Don't remember hearing Greens name being called?

He maybe had a couple hurries but didn't get much going, which was a bummer.

 

[CUwhit21]

People we're upset about LB play tonight?!

Weird folks around here.

Aside from Woods allowing that big play on the first drive, they were solid.

You know who was awful? Shiloh and Cam.

I guess you missed Bentley’s blitz on their last TD

 

[Liver]

I think they're better than Nebraska

i do think there is a pretty good chance the fusker frosh will not perform as well as that kid did tonight.

 

[Medford M.]

I feel like there's a weird amount of hand wringing over what really should have been a 38-20 or 38-26 type of game against NDSU.

NDSU beats a lot of FBS teams, and some of those teams end up being pretty good.

 

[Birch1]

Horn looked solid. 7 rec 198 yards and a td. If he caught that little dump off he would have had another td. I hope Sheppard steps it up. He wasn't being looked at much. It was the Hunter, Horn, and Wester show.

 

[Bison]

I think they're better than Nebraska

No way the Nubs are better than NDSU. If they had Cam Miller as their QB, that would be a different story.

I said before this season that NDSU could be the toughest OOC game and I still stand by that.

 

[CarolinaBuff]

I feel like there's a weird amount of hand wringing over what really should have been a 38-20 or 38-26 type of game against NDSU.

NDSU beats a lot of FBS teams, and some of those teams end up being pretty good.

Yes it certainly should've been that type of a game but it wasn't and we had to escape at the very end.

 

[Medford M.]

No way the Nubs are better than NDSU. If they had Cam Miller as their QB, that would be a different story.

I said before this season that NDSU could be the toughest OOC game and I still stand by that.

Especially playing a team that well coached that expects to win in week 1.

We did something a lot of teams failed to do. We actually beat NDSU.

 

[Medford M.]

I was most encouraged by the fact we basically bottled up the rushing attack outside of unscripted plays.

 

[WasianCU]

Don't remember hearing Greens name being called?

Green had that nice TFL but that's the only time I remember hearing his name.

 

[BuffWarHog]

I think they're better than Nebraska

My biggest concern is that game being on road

 

[skibum]

I was most encouraged by the fact we basically bottled up the rushing attack outside of unscripted plays.

The problem is that those plays count too.

 

[Medford M.]

The problem is that those plays count too.

OK?

 

[Tatanka™]

I was expecting a lot more from the pass rush after all the talk and the running game leaves a lot to be desired, but we still cover pretty easily if not for the drive extending penalties and a super lucky INT for the Bison. I’ll take it.

 

[Bison]

My biggest concern is that game being on road

Just chill dude and not use that angry emotion LOL.

 

[Uncle Ken]

Payoff my debts buffaloes!

Yikes!

 

[Lt.Col.FrankSlade]

Especially playing a team that well coached that expects to win in week 1.

We did something a lot of teams failed to do. We actually beat NDSU.

NDSU beat Minnesota in 2007 and 2011.
NDSU beat Kansas in 2010.
NDSU beat Colorado State in 2012.
NDSU beat Kansas State in 2013.
NDSU beat Iowa State in 2014.
NDSU beat Iowa in 2016.

They've been pretty salty.

 

[cnbuff410]

I guess we will see this Saturday, but it's crazy that you guys think NDSU is better team than Fuskers. They are well coached, but their talent is certainly not as good as Fuskers. We are not going to have so many explosive plays against Fuskers.

 

[ZandiBuff]

The play calling looked the same as last year.

Same play caller from the 2nd half. Not sure why anyone thought it would change