Here’s what our friends at Ducks Wire said about Colorado in their Pac-12 football power rankings after Week 1:
“Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes were the most prominent storing of the 2023 college football offseason. Since going to Boulder, Coach Prime overturned almost the entirety of his roster, bringing in transfers and sending players packing, and claiming that he was going to turn around a program that went 1-11 a year ago.
“Maybe we should have listened.”
In light of Colorado’s rise in the Pac-12 pecking order, that September 23 game between Oregon and CU — one week before USC plays Colorado on September 30 — feels different.
We asked our panel of Pac-12 experts, “How does Colorado’s emergence change the Pac-12 season for Oregon?”
Here’s the collection of answers: