Where's Our Upset?

[TimmyDUBs]

I was pleased to read Ted Miller's prediction that the Buffs will "post a major upset" this year:

One way-too-early prediction:
Colorado improved dramatically in Year 1 under MacIntyre, and the depth chart is far more promising than a year ago. But in the rugged Pac-12, it's difficult to project six victories and bowl eligibility. That said, this team is good enough to beat someone it’s not supposed to beat. And it will in 2014. The Buffs will post a major upset in 2014.

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So who do you think it could be? Arizona St and Oregon St at home and Arizona on the road would likely all count as upsets, but perhaps not "major." At USC and at Oregon would be ridiculous upsets of epic proportions. UCLA and Washington are both poised to be ranked, perhaps quite highly, when they get here and would be unanimous brick-game, major upsets.

Bust out the Kool Aid and be positive! No J-R-K or FatBuff-type bitching allowed!

Fri,Aug 29	Colorado State	Denver, CO	All Day
Sat,Sep 06	Massachusetts	at Foxborough, MA	TBA
Sat,Sep 13	Arizona State	Boulder, CO	TBA
Sat,Sep 20	Hawai'i	Boulder, CO	TBA
Sat,Sep 27	California	at Berkeley, CA	TBA
Sat,Oct 04	Oregon State	Boulder, CO	TBA
Sat,Oct 18	USC	at Los Angeles, CA	TBA
Sat,Oct 25	UCLA	Boulder, CO	TBA
Sat,Nov 01	Washington	Boulder, CO	TBA
Sat,Nov 08	Arizona	at Tucson, AZ	TBA
Sat,Nov 22	Oregon	at Eugene, OR	TBA
Sat,Nov 29	Utah	Boulder, CO	TBA

 

[Darian3Hagan]

UCLA

 

[BuffNut99]

UCLA

 

[leftybuff]

Where's our upset? My guess it come either on the road, or at home.


j/k I'll say UW. Boise Pete goes full haLk his first year.

 

[Quattro]

Where's our upset? My guess it come either on the road, or at home.


j/k I'll say UW. Boise Pete goes full haLk

Fify

I'll say UCLA

 

[slider]

Of those 4, UW. After that Oregon State is most likely

I don't see UCLA at all

 

[Darth Snow]

UCLA gonna put hurtings on us. UA and ASU could happen. UW mebbe. Does Oregon State even count?

 

[TimmyDUBs]

I guess I overestimate UW.

Who do you think has a better season? UW or USC?

 

[goalline]

I don't see any of these upsets happening, so I picked Oregon, since Timmy said drink the Kool-Aid before voting. :thumbsup:

 

[OrangeBowl]

UW sets up nice for it

 

[aik]

Nothing on this list. We will open the season as the underdog against all conference foes and only that will change later with a demonstrative conference win.

 

[Quattro]

Nothing on this list. We will open the season as the underdog against all conference foes and only that will change later with a demonstrative conference win.

Jesus man have some fun

 

[Buffnik]

Nothing on this list. We will open the season as the underdog against all conference foes and only that will change later with a demonstrative conference win.

Exactly. The upset is ASU. But once we take them down we should be favored in the rest on our way to 12-0.

 

[The Ogre]

From the list, Washington. For whatever uninformed reason though, I think it will be Arizona.

 

[BuffTE41]

What the hell, let's go big.

In Autzen.

 

[SpacemanSpiff]

Exactly. The upset is ASU. But once we take them down we should be favored in the rest on our way to 12-0.

Please. Please. Please. The ASU game is looking to be my Boulder trip this year. I hope we beat them and when the students rush the field after the game, that Ballage decides to join the party and refuses to travel back to Tempe.

 

[CVilleBuff]

At Cal or Utah at home will be our best win

 

[SBG]

What team didn't curb stomp up last year? I'm thinking we beat UA.

We do need to be in all games this year at least going into the 4th down by no more than 10pts for me to say we made progress (not counting Oregon).

 

[TDbuff]

Not saying a win is a realistic possibility, but a smooth transition for Sarkisian at USC is not a given. I wouldn't be surprised if he has a very up and down year.

 

[sackman]

I actually think we have a punchers chance against ASU, but that's not on the list.

 

[Quattro]

Not saying a win is a realistic possibility, but a smooth transition for Sarkisian at USC is not a given. I wouldn't be surprised if he has a very up and down year.

Plus they're hurting with depth

 

[Burrito]

Oregon.

Semper Gumby

 

[hokiehead]

UCLA -- coming off an easy win @ Cal, the over-confident Bruins look past the Buffs to their following week's home matchup with Arizona.

 

[Quattro]

What team didn't curb stomp up last year? I'm thinking we beat UA.

We do need to be in all games this year at least going into the 4th down by no more than 10pts for me to say we made progress (not counting Oregon).

We were closer to beating UCLA than Arizona last year

 

[Duff Man]

ASU.

Zona is the least likely outside of Oregon.

 

[Uncle Ken]

My front yard.

 

[tante]

We were closer to beating UCLA than Arizona last year

I still think UCLA played with almost zero effort.

 

[lawdogg]

ASU.

Zona is the least likely outside of Oregon.

So you think it's more likely that we beat UCLA or USC in the Coliseum than it is that we would beat Arizona? That's high praise for the Wildcats, but not sure I see it.

 

[Duff Man]

So you think it's more likely that we beat UCLA or USC in the Coliseum than it is that we would beat Arizona? That's high praise for the Wildcats, but not sure I see it.

Until I see a Buffs defense actually slow down an offense that heavily relies on zone read, I think those teams are the worst matchups.

 

[lawdogg]

Fair point, Duff, but I guess I had attributed our defensive woes more to talent levels than to schematic deficiencies. In my mind, UCLA and even SC are more talented by a wide margin than Zona so I would think our chances against them would be worse.