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The Colorado Buffaloes and Mike MacIntyre will determine the course of their season based on well they can handle their home games. If they can't, another losing season awaits, and probably a very hot seat for Mac comes by as well.
Colorado's home slate is doable. They play Idaho State at home, which should be a win. There's the Colorado State game that they should probably have a good shot at winning. They get Oregon State, the most winnable game on the Pac-12 schedule. Arizona State, UCLA, Washington State and Utah are all solid squads, but the Buffs have competed with all of them in recent years. They should win those games.
The road schedule is where everything just looks so tough. In a span of six weeks, Colorado will travel on the road to Michigan in Ann Arbor, then come back the next week to Autzen to face the Oregon Ducks. They then must face the Pac-12 North and Pac-12 South champs in Stanford and USC before October wraps up.
If the Buffs can get to that point in the schedule 4-4, a bowl game is within their reach, with three of the final four games at home.
What are your thoughts on Colorado's schedule?
Date
Sept. 2 Colorado State
SEPT. 10 IDAHO STATE
Sept. 17 at Michigan
Sept. 24 *at Oregon
OCT. 1 *OREGON STATE BOULDER
Oct. 8 *at Southern California Los Angeles
OCT. 15 *ARIZONA STATE BOULDER
Oct. 22 *at Stanford
Oct. 29 —BYE—
NOV. 3 *UCLA
Nov. 12 *at Arizona
NOV. 19 *WASHINGTON STATE BOULDER
NOV 26 *UTAH