I don't normally get riled up about sports, but tonight that is not the case.

Colorado's football program is trash. F**king garbage. An abyssmal disgrace.

You're leading 17-7 in the 3rd quarter against your in-state rival. And then you proceed to let CSU outscore you 24-0 (they scored on every 2nd half possession) to finish the game. Pathetic. Unacceptable. Zero heart. Zero desire. Zero pride. As someone who attended Colorado and watched them finish in the AP top 5 multiple times including a National Championship, I can't take watching this garbage anymore. And CU still sends me athletic department donation requests. Well, the team and athletic department doesn't give a f**k anymore, why should I? F em, you suck.

In closing, fire McIntyre. Hell, fire everyone. Disband the program if this is the best you have to offer. CSU clearly is the football powerhouse in Colorado now. What a f**king disgrace.

Yeah, as a student of CU right now, I refuse to pay the outrageous amount they charge for student season tickets to watch that ****. On top of that, I have 0 emotional connection to the program so it's really just a big waste of everyone's time

100% agree with you. Believe it or not, my freshman year (1989) football tickets were included as part of your tuition. That quickly changed...But I wouldn't pay a cent to watch that garbage either. At least the basketball team is OK these days so spend your money for those tix.

Wish you could have seen the glory days of CU football. It was quite an exciting environment to have been a part of.

What I hate more is that they force you to buy football season tickets in order to get basketball season tickets. So I don't have those either

lol. my student tickets were free, and my wife, with no other affiliation other than me, gets a student season pass for $35.

Colorado made two bad coaching hires and you don't dig out from that quick. The new guy is good- it'll get better. Or maybe it won't and you'll be sent away to the WAC where you belong or something.

lol is the Mafia in charge there now? smh. nice of them to extort the students. The students should get paid to show up and watch that crap CU tries to pass off as football. even less incentive for me to give any more $ to CU.

I know USC were lol off the field last week but they looked pretty good on Saturday. Yeah I know lol Fresno St. (and no more David Carr) but USC jumped on them early and never let up. Shades of the Pete Carroll days and a pretty good debut for Sark. I'm sure Kiffin would have found a way to only win like 17-10 or something like that. USC-Stanford may be the best matchup this weekend.

So happy Cal won a game.

We could legit start 4-1 before getting crushed in our last 7. Hell, maybe we could even beat OSU and go 5-7. I was anticipating a 2 win season coming in, so that would be a huge step in the right direction. We looked like a legitimate football team on Saturday.

We bring back 20/22 players on our offensive two-deep and 19/22 on our defensive two-deep. This team is literally almost devoid of seniors.

I know it's just one game, but I legit think we jumped from expecting to win ~2.7 games or so to ~4.5 games or so which is huge for the confidence and experience of the players and the momentum of the program going into next year, where we should be actually legitimately pretty decent.

I got to a WSU game with my folks every year, this year it's the Cal game. My thought was that I'd finally get to see a win. Little more worried now.

I do feel a lot better about WSU after re-watching the Rutgers game a bunch (it's been on the Pac12 Network nonstop). Offense looked good, defense was terrible, but man, a lot of teams were terrible in week 1.

Weird mix of optimism and pessimism in this post. It seems a little early in the season to be talking about what your team will look like next year. You ARE still undefeated, after all...

Once there was a man. He wasn't much of a man, but he was enough of a man to type some words on the internet about THIS WEEK'S GAMES

But first, a summary of last week:

MEANINGLESS BLOWOUTS AGAINST TEAMS OF LITTLE SIGNIFICANT. CONGRATS DICKS, YOU BEAT UP A GUY WITH NO ARMS:

Utah 56 Idaho State 14
ASU 45 Weber State 14
Arizona 58 UNLV 13
Stanford 45 UC Davis 0
Oregon 62 South Dakota 13

YOU WON, BUT YOU STILL HAVE BROUGHT SHAME ON OUR FAMILY

Washington 17 Hawaii 16 (yeah, you didn't start your good QB, but that's because he did some hella bring shame on the family type ****)
OSU 29 Portland State 14
UCLA 28 UVA 20 (bonus shame for the defense isn't going to score 3 TDs to bail your ass out again).

YOU JUST LOST TO A LESSER THAN AND SHOULD FEEL GOOD NEITHER RELIGATION OR THE WAC EXIST.

Colorado St 31 Colorado 17
Rutgers 41 WSU 38 (mostly shameful because WSU never really got stopped so much as they stopped themselves)

OK THAT'S JUST ****ING IMPRESSIVE

USC 52 Fresno State 13
Cal 31 Northwestern 24 (yes, Northwestern had like every good player leave the team and are a ****show, but Cal winning still fits the criteria).

AND NOW:

THURSDAY WHEN YOU'LL BE WATCHING THE WORLD CHAMPION SEATTLE SEAHAWKS DESTROY THE PACKERS.

We're just really glad Missouri is out there distracting people from the ongoing embarrassment that's our state vs OK but Spurs tho

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Arizona (-7) at Texas-San Antonio

I'm really out of Arizona jokes, please do something funny Wildcats.

We should probably be scared of Arizona, because I'm betting UNLV isn't that bad and they got frickin boatraced. (are boatraces typically blowouts or something?)

FRIDAY, WHEN YOU'RE PROBABLY "LEAVING THE HOUSE AND "TALKING TO GIRLS"

Just because the coach has written a book or two doesn't mean you should read it while playing safety vs We're credited for inventing the Pistol, but don't tell anybody, our center just couldn't snap for ****

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Washington State (-3.5) at Nevada

I'm scared of this game. WSU's line got pushed around, the linebackers (allbeit down one good starter) were all over the place in a bad way and missed tackles, the backfield was as bad as advertised. That's not a good look for a team going against a pistol.

That said, after a slow start (which, week 1, that happens) the offense looked really good. This team will score loads, and hopefully can get in Nevada's way enough to win the game. Just don't help the others guys out and this should be fine.

SATURDAY, IT'S NICE OUTSIDE, MAYBE GO FOR A TALK AND CHECK OUT SOME ART. IF YOU ARE A DAMN COMMUNIST

YOU JERKS PROBABLY MAKE JOHN DENVER'S GHOST CRY VS I CONTENT HYPOTHETICAL TIGHT END MARCUS CAMBY AS THE BEST ALUMNUS EVER

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Colorado (-17) at Umass

But "Victor Cruz" you say, and I respond that he has the taint of TuT upon him also imaginary Camby is still better.

I know UMASS is bad, but man, that's a big line for a bad team traveling across the country.

Subject does not demonstrate learned behavior vs Hanno Mottola's a Star AGAIN!

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Fresno State vs Utah (-10.5)

For some reason I loved Mottola in college and was overjoyed to see him playing for Finland in the World Basketball whatever that keeps being on ESPN instead of football.

This game is interesting, because Fresno was supposed to be non awful and got crushed by USC, so now we get a datapoint that speaks to either them being bad, or USC just being super good and scary, or that it's week 2 and who the **** knows. I sure don't.

MOAR LIKE SAC OF MENTOS AMIRITE vs NERD FIGHT CHAMPIONS 2014

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Sacramento State vs California (no line)

How bad are you when you can't get a line against Cal? I predict Cal looks kinda bad here, but still wins easily. I'll probably have lots of bad things to say about Cal all year because as mentioned earlier, I'll be watching their game vs WSU in person and need them to stink so that I get to see real life winning football. If I talk enough ****, it'll probably happen, because my words of have power. Hawks didn't not win the Super Bowl, right?

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HORROR THAT WAS PAUL WULFF AND SHOULD BE PUT DOWN vs TY WOULD NEVER HAVE BEAT HAWAII BY ONE POINT

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Eastern Washington vs Washington (no line)

Don't understand why there isn't a line here. EWU is already 2-0 and is generally a good team that you'd think they'd be line worthy, especially after UW looked so beatable in their game. Now lots of caveats apply, travel, new system, no starting QB, but UW had one 80 yard pass on offense and then like very little. They're probably still pretty good and should win easily, but it would be a lot cooler if they didn't.

BEHOLD, THE POWER OF PURE BASIC COMPETENCE vs OUR OGRES THINK YOUR HORSE LOOKS TASTY

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USC vs Stanford (-2.5)

USC's biggest issue is always depth, and it's super nice of them to be scheduled in one of their toughest games of the season when everybody who doesn't believe they can fly is pretty healthy.

Last year my opinion of Stanford is that they seemed like a team just talented enough to overcome a coach who maybe was resting a bit on the laurels of his offensive coordinator, and now the other guy's gone too. Should be interesting. Stanford's not a team I'd like to play when I'm thin, so a game where they get a bit ground down and Stanford pulls away at the end. Wouldn't be surprised if USC wins by 14 either.

LIKE STANFORD, BUT WITH TEETH HONED BY POVERTY AND GENERAL MICHIGANNESS vs SEEN A SPARTAN, DIDN'T LIKE IT

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Michigan State vs Oregon (-12)

Pause to read this really good if not somewhat excuse makingish (I mean come on those Sandy Hook tweets are indefensible) article on former Duck Colt Lyerla

I don't get this line. Michigan State is exactly the kind of team Oregon has had issues with in the past, and while they've lost players from last year's beastly team at this point I think Pat Narduzzi has earned some credit. Yeah, Oregon is a lot better when their QB has two legs, and he didn't late last season, but still... 12's a lot.

The OC looks like an guy who wouldn't call your sister back vs The head coach looks like Bob Dav- Wait, REALLY?

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Arizona State (-25) at New Mexico

It really is unfathomable how much Travlin' Tawd's OC looks exactly like he should. Who thinks a pencil thin goatee conveys anything but super villain. Come on. This just seems like blowout city.



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Memphis vs UCLA (-24)

UCLA's offense looked lousy vs UVA, and in that "our o-line is bad and it doesn't really matter that our QB is pretty good" kinda way. Maybe that's just week 1 week 1ing, but if you need to score 3 defensive TDs to win, that's really more the other guys losing than you winning. It also might be a case of the "Jim Mora is still bad and should feel bad and I hope that Seahawks championship hurt a little".

That said, they'll beat Memphis or I spent next week without pants.

They have In and Out in Hawaii! vs Happily providing bad Pac12 teams consolation regular season bowl trips since forever

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Oregon State (-10.5) at Hawaii

I'm not sure what that line says about UW, but I'm going to assume not good things. Another game that maybe tells us a bit about the rest of the Pac12, but then it may mostly tell us that Sean Manion is a lot better than UW's back up QB (or perhaps it tell us a lot about my genius in drafting Brandin Cooks as a proud Didsly Bear).

Kinda think OSU romps.

I've wondered this too

I think the term is to do with the fact that in a boat race, a boat that gets an early jump can in some way completely block off the opposition to squash any hope of a comeback by leveraging its position or something. So I think as sports blowouts go it's supposed to be a blowout from the start, not just a game that gets out of hand late or something.

this was really kinda weird and awkward

Boat race
Butt rape?

TIL that uncle phil just built a hanger for his new $75MM jet.

GO DUCKS!

lol Cougs?

Yep season appears to be dead in the water before it ever got off the ground. Pretty disappointing.

Burn it all down. Leach is ****ing up- and is probably the best we can do- but right now it's a ****ing mess on every level.

FTR:

boat raced
To be beaten very badly at something, especially in such a fashion that you were behind from the start and never had a chance. Comes from the Boat Race, an annual rowing competition between Oxford and Cambridge, in which the first side to get ahead can move to the middle of the river (where the current is fastest) and is almost never overtaken thereafter.

This UW-Eastern Wa game reminds me of the old Burger King Commercial, Where's the D?!

Wendy's, actually.

1. Oregon
2. USC
3. Stanford
4. ASU

5-12. Lulzzzzz

Awfully high spot for a Stanford team that's coached by a wooden post.

I have no idea what to make of WSU. Game 1 the offense played decent and the defense no showed. Game 2 the defense played about as well as I think we can expect, and the offense was awful. (the one caveat being that the team was missing it's 2nd best WR in River Cracraft, and the defense got a decent linebacker back).

The coaching was really bad. Both in terms of the team looking prepared, but also just in terms of decision making. We went for two field goals we never should have (we have no kickers basically) in a very un-Leachian show of nonaggression and called (or checked to, because our QB is simply stupid) a nonsense run on 4th and 3.

I think Mike Leach is a pretty perfect fit for WSU, and I'm not close to suggesting that he should be fired. There's no way this program can hire a better coach. However, I'm also worried that his version of the Air Raid is yesterday's version, and that he's not holding his players or himself accountable enough for making good decisions.

The weird thing is these games have been so freakish that I still wouldn't be surprised if we won 7 games. I also wouldn't be surprised if we lost 11.