To college football fans, the last week of July is a little like that first sunny taste of spring training for baseball junkies.
Hope springs eternal, so to speak, and in a season likely to feature a crowded pack behind Pac-12 Conference front-runners Washington and USC, it should be no different for the Colorado Buffaloes.
This past week the league held its annual football media day among the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, and some of the league's offseason impressions played true to form. The Pac-12 is in need of a big finish in 2018 after the 1-8 showing in bowl games after the 2017 season (not to mention the three one-and-dones that accounted for the Pac-12's contribution to the NCAA men's basketball tournament, with two of those exits in the round of 68).