I am an X’s and O’s nerd when it comes to sports, especially football. I love to track the formations, personnel groupings and pace of play that a team employs during a season.
This spring session has been torture for me seeing so much of the Colorado Buffaloes football team on social media, but not having a good handle on what the actual football will look like come next season.
We received a partial answer to some of these questions during the spring game on Saturday when the Buffaloes took the field for the first time in an organized fashion in front of fans. There will probably be a lot of changes to the team between now and when the season kick offs against TCU, but here are some general schematic notes I took from Colorado’s spring game: