Defend this turf.
It has been two weeks since the Colorado football team dispatched New Hampshire in the 2018 home opener. It was a pleasant exercise, a 31-point win on a sunny fall day that gave the upstart Buffaloes an unblemished 3-0 mark in nonconference play. Yet it is this Friday night's showdown against UCLA, the Pac-12 Conference opener for both programs, that feels like the moment the lights for the 2018 season will be turned on, both literally and figuratively, at Folsom.
The Buffaloes have been impressive. The opposition, as it turns out, not so much.