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Post week one outlook changes?

dwyermj

dwyermj

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Wondering how everyone is feeling about the season now that we have seen the entire conference and our Buffs in play. I fully understand this is probably overreacting to one week of games.

I actually feel better about CU as a team after week one. The defense it's way ahead of where I hoped they would be. The offense didn't look good but we know they have the pieces to be better (it's the same pieces as last year). I think they'll continue to get better over the year and if it ever fully clicks look out.

As for the rest of our schedule:

Washington - Started very slow but put away a P5 school on the road. If anything I'm worried a little less about them but I'm sure Peterson will have them ready come conference play.

UCLA - Josh Rosen is legit and unfortunately for him is still coached by Jim Morra was essentially my takeaway. Probably a little more concerned about this game because of the potential if they get solid line play but that is a huge if.

Arizona - Beat up on NAU but still should be a CU win.

Oregon State - Much worse than I thought they'd be. Went from a toss up to a should win in my mind.

Wazzu - Managed to not Coug' it. Still think they'll be pretty good this year.

Cal - Looked way better than expected. Thought they would be the doormat now I'm not so sure. Still expect a victory in Boulder but much closer game than I thought.

ASU - Won ugly against a bad team. We roll here.

USC - Not the look of a national contender yet. Took all 4 quarters to win that one and it was closer than the scoreboard makes it seem. Still a long way off but I feel a little better here.

Utah - To early to tell but Tyler Huntley at QB was unexpected for me. Interested to see next week.

Overall I feel better about the Buffs and a little bit better about our schedule. I was thinking 7-8 wins before the season and is bump that to 8-9 wins with a shot at 10 if the offense gets it going before league play.
 
My answer is pretty brief not team by team. All I want for the next 2 weeks is for the team to settle in and get in a good place going into the meat of the schedule. Also we should get meaningful snaps for guys that don't get a lot of run, might very well need some of them, actually we will need them. These next two games don't look important on the surface probably. To me, they are very important.
 
I think we still lose to Udub and USC, drop one of the road games (Wazzu for sure), and lose to someone we shouldn't (Cal, maybe?). That's 8-4, which is perfectly fine by me
 
I went from six locks for wins to seven locks for wins after seeing Oregon State.

Tex St, UNC, AZ, asu, ore st and Cal are all wins. If we can go 1-1 vs Wash and ucla, we're likely playing Utah for a chance to win our 9th or 10th game. So 8-4 is my absolute worst case scenario. 10-2 is best case.
 
Not sure anything was learned this weekend, other than Cal being better than expected and Oregon State being worse than (some) expected. I chalked those two up as wins initially, anyways, so my overall prediction of 8-9 wins stays the same.
 
I think Stanford looked the best (I know it was Rice). The team that surprised me the most was Cal winning at NC. They might be better than we thought.

Based off a way early preview, I would rate the conference in three tiers.

Tier 1: Stanford, USC, Washington One of these will probably win the conference and NC contenders.

Tier 2: Utah, Wazzu, Oregon, CU, UCLA, possibly Cal. These teams are all about equal and could beat either one on any given day. Division contenders, but that's about it.

Tier 3: ASU, UA, OSU. Looks to be the bottom feeders
 
I figured an 8-4 record before the season started and I'm more concerned now than I was then. Our offense has some serious work to do and the next two games won't be a very good barometer to measure improvement. I know more here feel pretty good about our defensive performance (and there certainly were some good defensive performances), but had those OPI calls not happened, we'd likely be singing a different tune.

However, I'll give props to our new DC. I was concerned about the unknown there but he did a good job.

I still think it's possible to get to 8-4, but we have a lot to fix in order to get there.
 
married2abuff said:
I figured an 8-4 record before the season started and I'm more concerned now than I was then. Our offense has some serious work to do and the next two games won't be a very good barometer to measure improvement. I know more here feel pretty good about our defensive performance (and there certainly were some good defensive performances), but had those OPI calls not happened, we'd likely be singing a different tune.

However, I'll give props to our new DC. I was concerned about the unknown there but he did a good job.

I still think it's possible to get to 8-4, but we have a lot to fix in order to get there.
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I'm still not convinced we would be looking at a different tune if the penalties on CSU were not called. I still felt we were the better team and CSU getting back in would have resulted in different play calling. Buffs controlled that game
 
Unleash Hell said:
I'm still not convinced we would be looking at a different tune if the penalties on CSU were not called. I still felt we were the better team and CSU getting back in would have resulted in different play calling. Buffs controlled that game
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I agree we were the better team which is what has me concerned. We didn't step on their throats. Had the one OPI not been called, they're within 7. There's no way it should have been that close so late in the game. We have a lot to improve upon if we think we can compete with U-dub.
 
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I'm about where I was, which was 7-5. However I'll amend to 8-4 because of OSU. I had chalked that up as a probable loss. Our offensive offensive performance has me worried. Even high scoring outputs the next two weeks will not change my apprehension.
 
married2abuff said:
I figured an 8-4 record before the season started and I'm more concerned now than I was then. Our offense has some serious work to do and the next two games won't be a very good barometer to measure improvement. I know more here feel pretty good about our defensive performance (and there certainly were some good defensive performances), but had those OPI calls not happened, we'd likely be singing a different tune.

However, I'll give props to our new DC. I was concerned about the unknown there but he did a good job.

I still think it's possible to get to 8-4, but we have a lot to fix in order to get there.
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The last sentence is what the next 2 games are all about to me. That and get depth guys some playing time.
 
8-4 still feels about right, possibly 9-3 and then a chance for 10 wins in the bowl game if everything goes right. UW and USC will be hard to win, assuming they both continue to improve (neither looked dominant this week). After that, @UCLA and @WSU will be tough games, as will @Utah.

I'll be happy with 8. Anything more is just icing on the cake.
 
BerkeleyBuff said:
8-4 still feels about right, possibly 9-3 and then a chance for 10 wins in the bowl game if everything goes right. UW and USC will be hard to win, assuming they both continue to improve (neither looked dominant this week). After that, @UCLA and @WSU will be tough games, as will @Utah.

I'll be happy with 8. Anything more is just icing on the cake.
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I think the main tossup games are @UCLA, @ASU, @WSU and @Utah. I think we're likely to lose at home to UW and USC. I think we're likely to win Texas State, UNCo, Arizona, @OSU and Cal. Somewhere between 6 and 10 wins, with 7-9 being most likely.
 
buff4bcs1985 said:
Wasnt that UCLA in 2002?
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No first we hosted USC after losing the infamous BVP head spike game and SC spanked us in Folsom. Something like 40-3.
Everyone was in meltdown mode and the following week we went off on UCLA in the Rose Bowl which turned around the season. I think our only other regular season loss was to OU and Barnett wanted a mulligan
 
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