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Tougher 2018 opponent: CSU or New Hampshire?

Tougher 2018 opponent?

  • CSU

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Buffnik

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Howell article on New Hampshire: http://www.buffzone.com/football-cubuffs/ci_31984809/cu-opponent-preview-new-hampshire-one-best-fcs

This is a team that made the FCS playoff quarterfinals last year. They return 18 starters from that team, including one of the best QBs in the nation at that level with all his receivers and a top 30 defense to go with that offensive firepower.

Contrast that with CSU (Howell's opponent review of the Rams). On offense, they lost top playmakers at QB and RB, an all-American WR and 4 offensive linemen from their 2017 team that finished 7-6. On defense, they change coordinators and are changing schemes from a 3-4 to a 4-3 while only having 5 starters return.

But it's also a rivalry game played at neutral site rather than at Folsom, making CSU a tougher game from that standpoint. Plus they've got a larger and deeper roster as a FBS program and it's a long road trip to altitude for New Hampshire.

Which will be the tougher game this season?
 
NDSU has shown that a top level FBS team can play with just about anybody. I think there is a chance for a letdown after the CSU and Nebraska games and our players might be overlooking UNH. There’s no way they overlook CSU, being the first game of the year. From that perspective, I’d say the UNH game presents more challenges than the CSU game does.
 
CSU, mostly because it’s the first game of the season for us with a new offensive coordinator. It might take some time to get our feet under us. By the time we play New Hampshire, we better be rolling.

We’re also CSU’s second game, so they should already have the rust shaken off when we meet. Last year, we debated the advantage of having film on them, but I think it’s balanced out by the fact that it’s our first game.

Both of these games should be convincing wins, or it’s going to be a bad season. The non conference game I’m really focused on is Nebraska.
 
New Hampshire is the better team and they come at a time when CU could have a mental let down. That being said, CU will win by three touchdowns.
CSU will have already played a game, so I fully expect them to be winning after the end of the first quarter 7-0, but then they will lose 63-7....
As with Truffle, I am focused on Nebraska...
 
Trufflesauce said:
CSU, mostly because it’s the first game of the season for us with a new offensive coordinator. It might take some time to get our feet under us. By the time we play New Hampshire, we better be rolling.

We’re also CSU’s second game, so they should already have the rust shaken off when we meet. Last year, we debated the advantage of having film on them, but I think it’s balanced out by the fact that it’s our first game.

Both of these games should be convincing wins, or it’s going to be a bad season. The non conference game I’m really focused on is Nebraska.
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They had a chance at us LY.....and couldn't get out of their way offensively. If we lose to little brother, RG might as well start raising funds to buy out MM because the season will probably go totally off the rails at that point.
 
with our performance last year and the rapid cycles of this program between pretty damn good and shockingly awful everyone we play is terrifying. You're asking us to rate Jason Vorhees vs Fred Krueger and I don't know how to make that evaluation.
 
New Hampshire is good. Like Eastern Washington is usually good, and they had beaten Washington St in '16 when Wazzoo rolled into Folsom undefeated in conference. When you are talking about QBs 'on that level', Carson Wentz was one. As was the guy who started at Oregon I think 2 years ago. He came in from Eastern Washington.
 
bombay said:
New Hampshire is good. Like Eastern Washington is usually good, and they had beaten Washington St in '16 when Wazzoo rolled into Folsom undefeated in conference. When you are talking about QBs 'on that level', Carson Wentz was one. As was the guy who started at Oregon I think 2 years ago. He came in from Eastern Washington.
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The EWU QB at Oregon was Vernon Adams... had some injuries there and never got to play to his full potential.

Their other FCS transfer was from Montana State, Dakota Prukop, will be best remembered around here for "Prukop to the corner for Carrington INTERCEPTED!" in the Buffs 2017 visit to Autzen.
 
Honestly, I’m concerned with every game on our schedule this season. CSU could have beat us last year if it weren’t for the OPI penalties, we looked BAD against UNC, we barely squeaked out a win at OSU. If we don’t win more than 5 games this season we need a new head coach.
 
Buffs will pound down little brother CSU, by a little or a lot, by whatever means. UNH should not be overlooked, but no way are they flying into Folsom for the Buffs home opener on a glorious late summer afternoon and taking a win. Book it.
 
AllStarBuffs said:
Honestly, I’m concerned with every game on our schedule this season. CSU could have beat us last year if it weren’t for the OPI penalties, we looked BAD against UNC, we barely squeaked out a win at OSU. If we don’t win more than 5 games this season we need a new head coach.
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Someone hasn't taken their BnG Koolaid pills in awhile.
 
I attended UNH my Freshman year, married a graduate, and live 15 minutes from the school. While the football team is very good year over year against the level of competition they play, there is no reason they should challenge CU unless the Buffs completely overlook them.

Having said that, there has been a new focus put on football at UNH, which is traditionally a hockey and soccer school, including the completion of a new stadium last year. We’ll see if this translates to anything substantial on the field.

It looks like they have a home game against Colgate the week before they come to Boulder. I’ll do my part and swing by the game and can provide a synopsis of what I saw, for those that might care.
 
Also, fun Pac12 factoid- not sure if it’s been mentioned but UNH is Chip Kelly’s alma Mater and where he was OC before the Ducks took him.
 
I think there’s 2 different questions:

A) (the OP) - which games presents a bigger challenge?

2) (what a lot people are debating) - which is the better football team?

A) I think CSU is a bigger “challenge” just because of what we (CU AND CSU) have built the series to be, it never really matters how good either team is, it’s usually a dogfight. And it’s not their first game/it is ours.

2) I think UNH is a straight up better team than CSU this year. But there is no extra baggage and by that point, a decent P5 school should be fine.

d) Jason Vorhees - much worse than Freddy. Jason can kill you whether you are asleep or awake. And Freddy’s power lies your fear of him. If you can overcome your fear, Freddy is powerless. If you overcome your fear of Jason, he’ll just kill you quicker.
 
SerenityBuff said:
Are sheep fans saying this enough so that we're starting to believe it too? They're not the first team ever to have questionable calls go against them. Good teams overcome them, they didn't.
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And considering how bad CU really was last year, particularly on defense, the fact that they couldn’t overcome those penalties to score more than 3 points is pretty awful.
 
Liver said:
we will beat new hampshire 28-16 with a very unhappy mm on the sidelines.

we will beat the sheep 55-10, with subs playing in the 3rd quarter.

res ipsa loquitur.
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I lean towards this. CSU is certainly more talented top to bottom than UNH, while I would argue that the UNH will be likely be playing better football as a team. Ultimately, timing of playing the UNH game along with a possible letdown by the Buffs after two big games to start the year, could make for some squirming against the hampsters before likely getting a fugly win.
 
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