Championship football teams win early and often.
Sure, it’s early on in the 2015 season for Colorado State Football, but today’s game against the Minnesota Golden Gophers is the most important of the Rams’ non-conference slate. Maybe the most important game all year.
Minnesota is one of two teams the Rams play from a Power-5 conference – lowly CU is the other – and the Golden Gophers are one of the top teams in all of college football. Their narrow 17-23 loss to the No. 2 Texas Christian University Horned Frogs last Saturday is evidence of how talented a team Minnesota is.