Post Game Celebration Thread - Colorado Buffaloes Defeat the Colorado State Rams

Its nice to see the Buffs in a game where THEY dominated for once. Its gives me some hope that this could be a good season.

But, some things to be cleaned up before we are ready to take on better teams. The O line was iffy, Hansen missed some easy throws and the penalties…….well, they are ridiculous. The personal fouls were especially troubling. Then again, the delay of game on 4th and 28 was just as awful.

All in all, a lot more exciting team. Way more athleticism than we have seen in the past. The D looked a lot better than I expected. Bring on Cal!

Let’s GO BUFFS!!!

I agree with you all that there are some things to fix but overall I’m happy with this performance. Nice to see the Buffs come out fired up and showing some pride.
Go Buffs!

And the penalties of course I hope they run gassers for each one….. Otherwise good performance by the buffs

but that was just a weird game. I can’t remember ever being less excited during a Buffs game in my life. Or can I ever remember a worse game day atmosphere (at least that’s what it looked like on TV). I understand why the games are at Invesco, no one needs to explain that to me, but man do I wish the game was in Boulder, at least it would of been in a loud, sold-out stadium. CSU fans don’t show up at all unless they’re good, CU fans don’t show up in large numbers down there unless we’re good. Ugh…
I’m really disappointed we didn’t score more in the 2nd half. The offense just couldn’t get on a roll. I’m worried about our running game and I’m still not really sure what our offensive identity is.
New WRs looked good, defense looked good, Goodman looked good (!), there were quite a few positives, but let’s not kid ourselves, CSU is bad, like really bad, they will be lucky to match last year’s win total.
Preseason is over, regular season starts next week in Berkeley!

OK we accomplished the mission of beating the Rams which was Priority One. I’ll have to think about the game before my analysis, but a couple things jumped out right away.

Penalties, penalties, penalties- what more to says, luckily we overcame these against the Rams, but won’t against better teams.

Maybe it was TV, but CU loked more business-like than pumped/amped up for the game.

Offense has potentail, but not exactly smooth or in sync. 1st game of the year inconsistency which I hope can be worked out quickly.

I’ll take this victory!!!

Defense looked good (though aided by a very bad/inexperienced Ram offense), offense did fine and Goodman did his job. However, on the negative side, the penalties were terrible and MUST be cleaned up. Hopefully we can build off of this by ending our road woes next week at Cal! All in all, a good win and a good day. GO BUFFS!

CU 1-0
UCLA 0-1
Josh Smith’s music degree….useless.

Just joking and no ill will for Josh, just had to comment b/c UCLA looked terrible.

Awesome! Deal w/ it SEC

I have to say, the ralphie report has been one the most depressing big 12 sbnation blogs out there during the last year with the possible exception of iowa state… congrats on the much needed win, buffs.

I have been a loyal buff fan since i can remember. So since most of us Buff fans are not happy with the direction Hawkins was taking us makes this site a bad place to be is BS. I am happy with the win, but I want to see this team get better and compete on a weekly basis. I love this site and support the criticism. I want a team that lives up to what we had in the early 70’s and the 80’s. If that bothers you, so be it. I love all my Colorado teams, (except the rams) and I want winners not bottom feeders. If that bothers you so be it.
GO BUFFS

There are lots of things I could complain about, but I think I’ll just bask in this for a bit….it’s been a long time…

I’ll start worrying again and getting cynical on Thursday/Friday

but we’ve absolutely sucked on the road for years now. if this team manages to show up on the road then that will go a long way towards “our new direction” and getting respect from our future conference mates.