CU Buffs Pre-Fall Prospectus

BOULDER - The Colorado Buffaloes will open their 129th season of intercollegiate football on Friday, August 31, at Broncos Stadium at Mile High, squaring off against in-state rival Colorado State in the Rocky Mountain Showdown ... The game, the 90th meeting between the two schools approximately 40 miles apart as the proverbial crow flies, will kickoff at 7:30 p.m. mountain and will be televised nationally by the CBS Sports Network (it's the third straight year the Buffs and Rams will open on a Friday night in Denver) ... It will be the 34th time over the last 35 seasons that a CU season opener will be on some kind of local, regional or national television (the lone exception came in 2006 against Montana State, though that game was webcast) … The Buffaloes lead the series with the Rams by a 65-22-2 count, which includes an 11-6 edge in games played in Denver (all but three of the games dating back to 1998 have been played in Denver, which will host one more in the series next year before the 2020 game will be played in Fort Collins) ... This will be the eighth game in the month of August for the Buffaloes, who own a 3-3-1 record in the month (0-1 under MacIntyre, a 31-17 loss to Colorado State in 2014); CU is 2-2 against the Rams in August (here's your annual historical tidbit: August, then known as Sextilis in Latin as the sixth month of the year, was originally 29 days in length; Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 46 BC, creating its modern length of 31 days (in 8 BC, the month's name was changed to August). Otherwise, this year's game would have fallen on Sept. 2 ... Colorado's opponents this year were a collective 83-72 a year ago (FBS teams were 74-67) ... CU opens with four of its first five games in the state of Colorado for the second straight year; it's fairly common for the Buffs, as since 1978 when they started the year with five straight home games, it'll be the 18th time CU leaves the state just once in the first five games ... Colorado enters 2018 with an all-time record of 700-501-36 (a .580 winning percentage), as the Buffaloes are 25th on the all-time win list and is 36th in all-time winning percentage ... Players report for meetings, orientations and presentations on Wednesday, August 1; the NCAA has now approved 110 players may report early as opposed to the 105 it has been for well over a decade.

HALF-A-THOU (500)
The Utah game on November 17 at Folsom Field will be number 500 all-time in the stadium's history (regular season of course, spring not included). The late F.M. "Dutch" Westerberg saw every home game at Folsom between its inaugural game on Oct. 11, 1924 until he died in 1999 – 383 total. School officials will be working on a promotion of the 500th game as the game approaches.

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