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Colorado Football predictions: Massey Ratings project major struggles for Buffaloes in final 8 games
Colorado sits at 3-1 on the season currently after their crazy, conference-opening win in overtime against Baylor. However, with the rest of their league schedule ahead in their return to the Big 12, On3’s Massey Ratings are projecting a bad finish for the Buffaloes by the end.
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Colorado is 3-1 for the second straight season in year two under Deion Sanders. It may not be as high-profile as the start to his debut was last fall but it has still had its exciting moments. That includes a close win in the opener to North Dakota State, a rivalry victory on the road over Colorado State, and then what took place to end regulation and then into overtime this past weekend versus Baylor.
The Buffalos’ main storylines also again involve the play of Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter. Sanders has already thrown for 1,340 yards for 11 touchdowns and two interceptions on 67.9% completion. Hunter has been even more special, though, with 472 yards and five scores at receiver to go with 14 tackles, an interception, and a forced fumble at corner as a hopeful for The Heisman Trophy.
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Still, even with what all is going for them, Colorado could be looking at a comparable close to what they went through last year according to these figures per On3’s Massey Ratings:
Colorado at UCF – Sat., 9/28
Colorado will play UCF for the first time ever this upcoming weekend when they travel to Orlando. However, the return to Coach Prime’s home state won’t go well based on the ratings. It has it going in favor of Gus Malzahn and the Knights with them moving to 4-0 after a two-touchdown win over the Buffs on Saturday.
Massey Ratings Prediction: UCF 35, Colorado 21
Colorado vs. Kansas State – Sat., 10/12
Following their first bye week, Colorado will play one of the what’s expected to be one of the top teams in the conference in K-State. They haven’t met since 2010 when they were last conference opponents as the Buffaloes have a 45-20 edge over them all-time. Still, in their first matchup together in a decade and a half, the ratings have almost the exact score as the last game with another 14-point loss for them to the Wildcats.
Massey Ratings Prediction: Kansas State 34, Colorado 20
Colorado at Arizona – Sat., 10/19
Colorado will play one of two of their former Pac-12 opponents in this one when they go to Tucson and play Arizona. While having an all-time winning record over these Wildcats as well, Arizona has won nine of the last dozen, including a 34-31 victory last year in Boulder, since 2012. They’ll then make it 10 out of 13 as the ratings have it as a seven-point win for ‘Zona.
Massey Ratings Prediction: Arizona 31, Colorado 24
Colorado vs. Cincinnati – Sat., 10/26
Colorado will start a crucial three-week stretch, including their second bye in between, by hosting Cincinnati. The Bearcats are in their second season under Scott Satterfield and have already tied last year’s win total with a start at 3-1. However, in this last game of October for both teams, On3’s Massey Ratings have Cincy leaving Folsom Field with a win by a field goal margin – even with it currently being the closest win probability left in the season for CU.
Massey Ratings Prediction: Cincinnati 27, Colorado 24
Colorado at Texas Tech – Sat., 11/9
After that second bye, Colorado will be in Lubbock for a game against the Red Raiders. They have split their ten all-time meetings as CU won just once out of five in their last contest there in 2007. The ratings have them dropping this one as well with a nine-point loss to Texas Tech.
Massey Ratings Prediction: Texas Tech 33, Colorado 24
Colorado vs. Utah – Sat., 11/16
The Buffaloes will get their second of two former league opponents in the Pac-12 with Utah coming to Boulder. With that, Colorado has lost seven straight to the Utes and just once in a dozen meetings since 2012. That includes a 23-17 loss to them in Salt Lake City last fall. Now, with them as a favorite in the Big 12, Colorado loses this one too by two scores per the rating’s projections as the lowest win probability for the remainder of their year currently.
Massey Ratings Prediction: Utah 31, Colorado 17
Colorado at Kansas – Sat., 11/23
Due to renovations at the stadium in Lawrence, Colorado will go to Arrowhead in the penultimate game to play Kansas. The two haven’t met since 2010 when the Buffaloes lost four of five to them despite having an all-time lead against them. Their next matchup will also go to the Jayhawks with them projected to win this one by nine in Kansas City.
Massey Ratings Prediction: Kansas 30, Colorado 21
Colorado vs. Oklahoma State – Fri., 11/29
Colorado closes the season on a Friday night against one of the top teams in the conference in Oklahoma State. The Buffaloes lead the all-time series against the Cowboys despite losing four of their last five meetings, including a loss in the 2016 Alamo Bowl. They’ll take another double-digit loss to end the year, though, with the projection being an 11-point win for the ‘Pokes.
Massey Ratings Prediction: Oklahoma State 35, Colorado 24
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Based on that, Colorado would not be winning another game for the rest of the season. They’d close on an eight-game losing streak to finish 3-9 overall and at 1-8 in the Big 12. That’d be the same league record as they had last year in a different conference while also being a game worse from last season’s final record.
The Buffaloes are competing much like they did at the start of last season under Sanders. However, ahead of the rest of their conference schedule, On3’s Massey Ratings are expecting another collapse by Colorado by season’s end.
Four years after the fire, recovery is still incomplete for some Marshall Fire victims. A Colorado man is joining wildfire survivors from across the country to push lawmakers to make changes and provide support for survivors still rebuilding.
Recently, a historic $640 million settlement was reached with Xcel Energy, but the Coloradans who lost everything in the Marshall Fire might not be receiving all the money that they’re owed. Some settlements could be taxed, while others were paid in full.
“I was the fourth responding fire engine to the Marshall Fire. By the end of the night, I was triaging homes in the neighborhood that I grew up in,” said former firefighter Benjamin Carter. “I’ve seen how much the community’s hurting, and I just wanted to do whatever I could to help.”
Carter is now fighting for those who lost their homes, including his mother. He’s working with an organization called After the Fire, joining up with wildfire survivors in Oregon, Hawaii and California. This week, Carter flew to Washington, D.C., to speak with lawmakers about how they can help survivors rebuild.
In 2024, lawmakers passed the Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act, which exempted wildfire survivors from taxes on related settlements, among other tax relief. But the bill expired last week, shortly after Xcel agreed to settle over the Marshall Fire.
“If the people don’t have to pay taxes on the damages, then it helps them rebuild,” Carter explained. “Some of the smaller attorneys still haven’t received payment, so all those people will be subject to those taxes; all the attorney fees, and what the actual settlements end up being. And, of what they’re actually getting at the end of the day, that’s been a huge challenge.”
Congress has already proposed extension options. But Carter hopes that by sharing their stories, legislators will act before survivors lose anything else.
“With a lot going on in Washington and everything, the representatives don’t always know about all the issues. And so, we want to educate them on this issue and hopefully gain their support,” Carter said.
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Colorado attorney general expands lawsuit to challenge Trump ‘revenge campaign’ against state
Attorney General Phil Weiser on Thursday expanded a lawsuit filed to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado to now encapsulate a broader “revenge campaign” that he said the Trump administration was waging against Colorado.
Weiser named a litany of moves the Trump administration had made in recent weeks — from moving to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research to putting food assistance in limbo to denying disaster declarations — in his updated lawsuit.
He said during a news conference that he hoped both to reverse the individual cuts and freezes and to win a general declaration from a judge that the moves were part of an unconstitutional pattern of coercion.
“I recognize this is a novel request, and that’s because this is an unprecedented administration,” Weiser, a Democrat, said. “We’ve never seen an administration act in a way that is so flatly violating the Constitution and disrespecting state sovereign authority. We have to protect our authority (and) defend the principles we believe in.”
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, began in October as an effort to force the administration to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs. President Donald Trump, a Republican, announced in September that he was moving the command’s headquarters to Alabama, and he cited Colorado’s mail-in voting system as one of the reasons.
Trump has also repeatedly lashed out over the state’s incarceration of Tina Peters, the former county clerk convicted of state felonies related to her attempts to prove discredited election conspiracies shared by the president. Trump issued a pardon of Peters in December — a power he does not have for state crimes — and then “instituted a weeklong series of punishments and threats targeted against Colorado,” according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit cites the administration’s termination of $109 million in transportation grants, cancellation of $615 million in Department of Energy funds for Colorado, announcement of plans to dismantle NCAR in Boulder, demand that the state recertify food assistance eligibility for more than 100,000 households, and denial of disaster relief assistance for last year’s Elk and Lee fires.
In that time, Trump also vetoed a pipeline project for southeastern Colorado — a move the House failed to override Thursday — and repeatedly took to social media to attack state officials.
The Trump administration also announced Tuesday that he would suspend potentially hundreds of millions of dollars of low-income assistance to Colorado over unspecified allegations of fraud. Those actions were not covered by Weiser’s lawsuit, though he told reporters to “stay tuned” for a response.
Weiser, who is running for governor in this year’s election, characterized the attacks as Trump trying to leverage the power of the executive branch to exercise unconstitutional authority over how individual states conduct elections and oversee their criminal justice systems.
In a statement, a White House official pushed back on Weiser’s characterization.
“President Trump is using his lawful and discretionary authority to ensure federal dollars are being spent in a way that (aligns) with the agenda endorsed by the American people when they resoundingly reelected the President,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said.
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