What do you do when fall camp is over? Jump in Boulder Creek of course.

One week until the beginning of Nirvana!

I haven't been able to bone up on everything college football this season, but as far as the Colorado Buffaloes are concern, I am ready to make my bold prediction.

The experts are predicting 3-4 wins this season for the Buffs once again.  They think the Pac 12 is just going to be too tough.  Having said that, I think they are just too close to the situation and having numerous blowouts over the past two season, has made them gun-shy and thus timid in their predictions.

Personally, as a long-time pigskin prognasticator, I see seven wins are a real possibility. Below is Colorado's 2014 schedule.

CSU-W
UMASS-W
ASU-W
HAWAII-W
CAL-W
OSU-W
USC-L
UCLA-L
UDUB-W
AZ-L
OREGON-L
UTAH-W

ASU lost nine starters on defense and have loaded up on JUCOs.  The game is early enough that perhaps they won't have jelled as a unit and the Buffs will beat them when they visit Boulder.  Ditto for Oregon State - lost a lot of talent, and another home game for Colorado.  Hopefully Cal is still down when the Buffs visit Berkeley and since Washington has a new coach and new system, CU upsets them in another game at home. Arizona's QB situation is really up in the air, so a upset on the road is possible.  Will Colorado beat SC, UCLA, Oregon?  Not likely, but blowouts like the last two years won't happen either.  Fortunately Utah visits Boulder this year so I like our chances.

World University Rankings are Out!

The Pac 12 kick some serious butt.  Nice to see that Colorado fits in nicely.  Still it is irksome that UDub is ahead of the Buffs.  But being ranked ahead of SC is a good thing.


The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has released their 2014 college rankings.
Stanford - 2
Cal-Berkeley - 4
UCLA - 12
UW - 15
CU - 34 (26th nationally)
USC - 51
Arizona - 86
Utah - 87
ASU - 88
Oregon St - 151-200
CSU - 201-300
Oregon - 201-300
WSU - 201-300
ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance of a university.  LINK.

Zan Zack at Tackle and Cornball at Strong Safety

There were several interesting articles about how high school athletes are transferring to gain playing time.  Turns out that big time college sports and the competition for scholarships are the driving factors.  Click the attached link. LA Times Article


The articles made me wonder what would have happened once  Brett Simonson was named the starter over Zach and Cornwall and if either of them transferred for more playing time.  I can't remember, but did those two guys stand on the sidelines for the entire season or did they play at other positions?  And if they both stayed the backup QB, does that mean we had two to the best athletes on the team not play one bit?!  If that is the case, the Temple City loss is understandable.


Like I said, I can't remember if or where they played.  But where would Zack have played?  If I had my choice Zan should have played tackle.  He was big in high school and he's massive now.  For Corndog, strong safety would have been a nice spot for him.  He also was a big boy and could have been a huge run stopper coming out of the defensive backfield.


What do you guys think?

When the Game Stands Tall - the Movie

If you remember last summer, I told you guys about a great book on high school football.  Now When the Game Stands Tall is a movie set to open August 22.  Click link.  Didn't I recommend Muck City as well?  Don't be surprised...

By-the-way, if you read the book you'd recognize the term "Don't forget!  God is a Spartan comes from When the Game Stands Tall.  At a pivotal moment at the end of a locker room pep talk an assistant coaches screams it out just as the team takes the field.

Direct TV is giving the Pac 12 a hard time, but the Pac 12 network is going to start giving live sports programing to international audiences via YouTube starting in August.  Click the Link.

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AND DON'T FORGET! GOD IS A SPARTAN!