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Future opening game

Unleash Hell

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Would anybody like to see the Buffs in one of these kickoff classic type games at a neutral site?
Obviously wouldn't want to play Bama in one of their annual ones, but was watching Purdue/Louisville last night and Purdue put up a good fight on national tv on prime time.
Great exposure . Maybe a game in Denver, Dallas against a Big Ten or Big 12 opponent.
 
Sure. Would need to be in a year we have 5 Pac-12 home games, probably, to make the schedule work. But let's say we do something like play a one-off against Arkansas in Dallas. I'd be all over that.
 
Buffnik said:
Sure. Would need to be in a year we have 5 Pac-12 home games, probably, to make the schedule work. But let's say we do something like play a one-off against Arkansas in Dallas. I'd be all over that.
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Sounds good to me.
 
I kinda went head to head with those knuckle dragging apes :D, @Buffnik and @Duff Man, about CU playing games off campus. While their respective points were valid, mostly the money it would earn CU, I just hate the idea. My argument is much more on the emotional side in that I just want games at Folsom. To me, that is what makes college football so great. But, at the end of the day, money talks.
 
Yep Bieniemy was suspended because he shoved a firefighter at his moms house.
Pritchard was the RB and had like over 200 yards rushing

CU also had a 14 point lead twice in that game
 
I'm not a fan of all these games being played in NFL stadiums but we need some serious upgrades in our non-conference schedules and if that's what it takes then fine. However that's already been addressed to some extent with future series against Nebraska, A&M, and TCU.
 
I'm all for it, as long as we win. Let me decide after the game.

It is great exposure and it gets us paid a lot of money. Win and we start the year with a quality win that puts us in the national conversation.

First games are very unpredictable though. Just as easy to lose and have that loss hanging over you the rest of the year.

Personally give me a patsy as a warm-up game but playing one of these would me preferable to playing the RMS against a team that spends their entire year aiming for us but that doesn't help us much to beat.
 
Isn't there some outside chance that the upcoming OOC game against TAMU is going to be at Mile High? Or did I dream that up?
 
We would need to establish ourselves as a national brand (again) that is consistently at least borderline top-25 before we'd be considered for one of these games at a neutral site. Even then, I'm not sure CU v. SEC team at Jerry's World is a sellout. We'd be better positioned to sell tickets to a game at the new LA or Vegas stadiums, but what team east of the Mississippi will consider those "neutral" sites? (I know BYU played in one of these games this year, but BYU has built in fans all of the country bc of the Mormon church connection.)
 
azbuff said:
We would need to establish ourselves as a national brand (again) that is consistently at least borderline top-25 before we'd be considered for one of these games at a neutral site. Even then, I'm not sure CU v. SEC team at Jerry's World is a sellout. We'd be better positioned to sell tickets to a game at the new LA or Vegas stadiums, but what team east of the Mississippi will consider those "neutral" sites? (I know BYU played in one of these games this year, but BYU has built in fans all of the country bc of the Mormon church connection.)
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Wouldn't mind a CU vs Nebraska game in Vegas.
 
azbuff said:
We would need to establish ourselves as a national brand (again) that is consistently at least borderline top-25 before we'd be considered for one of these games at a neutral site. Even then, I'm not sure CU v. SEC team at Jerry's World is a sellout. We'd be better positioned to sell tickets to a game at the new LA or Vegas stadiums, but what team east of the Mississippi will consider those "neutral" sites? (I know BYU played in one of these games this year, but BYU has built in fans all of the country bc of the Mormon church connection.)
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Purdue is far from a recent consistent top 25 team
 
Wisconsin in Chicago would be a cool one other than the obvious home field advantage for them. Would be really cool to play a game in Atlanta against a big-10 team.
 
I'd be open to neutral site games outside the state, but when CU plays in the state, the game needs to be on campus.
 
onealcd said:
Wisconsin in Chicago would be a cool one other than the obvious home field advantage for them. Would be really cool to play a game in Atlanta against a big-10 team.
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Definitely wouldn't mind playing Wisconsin but would rather have it in Vegas. I think it'd be a pretty neutral crowd against any team there.
 
Wiscy, Tennessee, Arkansas, Michigan St, maybe like a North Carolina or NC State would be teams I'd be interested in for now. Down the road, could bump it up a bit.
 
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