Football Recruiting

The Ultimate CU Fan’s Guide to the Transfer Portal

The college football transfer portal is, as of today, officially open. It’s now silly season, folks. By latest count there are north of 3,500 FBS/FCS entries swirling around the carousel. Colorado needs to grab —- deep breath, John — about 40–45 of them. Yes, that’s an entire side of the ball plus a special teams

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Colorado 2026 Recruiting Class Roundup: The Defense Edition

First, the bad news:  Colorado’s high school recruiting class is ranked 100th nationally.  Schools ranked higher than CU include Buffalo, Arkansas State, Kent State, Ohio, Old Dominion and Georgia State.  CU’s ranking this year is much lower than last, where the Buffs nestled in at #39 nationally (when combined with transfer rankings, CU had the #24 overall class

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Relevant But Broken: A Nuanced Look at the State of CU Football

CU’s football season mercifully came to an end on Saturday in a 24-14 loss to the Kansas State Wildcats.   If you read social media, you’ll see that there’s very little nuance regarding CU’s disappointing season.  Everything is sensationalized and emotionally charged.  There’s a simplification of complex issues into binary positions – Deion Sanders is God / Deion

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THE PANCAKE KING: MEET CU OL COMMIT BEN GULA — THE MAN THAT MAKES MORE PANCAKES THAN KRUTEAZ

Colorado’s offensive line of the future added a mauler last week.  The Buffs landed a commitment from Ben Gula, a 6’5”, 285 pound interior offensive lineman out of Cypress Bay High School in Fort Lauderdale.    Now, for those of you that grew up in the 1990s and watched Nick Jr., you’ll be glad to know that

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LINEBACKER COLBY JOHNSON BRINGS TRACK SPEED TO CU; MEET THE SAMMAMISH SLEDGEGHAMMER

C If you’re going to take a “flyer” on a less recruited high school football player, you might as well take a flyer. CU received a commitment last week from linebacker Colby Johnson. Johnson, a 6’2” 195-pounder from Sammamish, Washington, can really run.  The Sammamish Sledgehammer has been timed at a 4.53 40-yard dash, which is

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WHICH CU TRUE FRESHMEN ARE MOST LIKELY TO START GAME 1?

My answer? Probably none. But that’s a boring post, and there’s a chance that several true freshmen will crack the starting lineup August 28th against Georgia Tech. So, in order of likelihood of starting, we’ve ranked CU’s true freshmen 1 through 12 to see which players are most likely to start from day one. We’ll

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