The Colorado Buffaloes and Colorado State Rams enter the 2018 football season with renewed hopes for conference championships, but if ESPN’s Football Power Index is any indication, it will be another long and arduous season for both programs.
The FPI is “a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of a team’s performance going forward for the rest of the season,” according to ESPN. Results are based on “10,000 simulations of the rest of the season using FPI, results to date, and the remaining schedule.