Props to Colorado State for being 5-2 after scheduling some tough games. I mean, it's not like they scheduled a neutral site game against a top-5 ranked team, or a road game against an SEC team, but it's not an easy schedule.
In the first game of the season, the Rams visited Northern Iowa and did what then-top-ranked North Carolina Tar Heels could not. In the weeks since, Colorado State challenged itself with the Corpus Christi Coastal Challenge, a preseason tournament in which they beat Abilene Christian (in OT) and Portland before losing a double overtime thriller against the undefeated UTEP Miners in the tournament championship.