FORT COLLINS — Who cares that CSU’s stuck in the mother of all pillow fights? It’s a fight the Rams can win, baby.
Three words, FoCo faithful:
Embrace the ugly.
“I really don’t care, to be honest with you, about scheme and all that stuff — it’s about the results,” CSU football coach Jay Norvell said of his Rams (5-3, 3-0 Mountain West), who’ll take a three-game win streak into Nevada on Saturday night.
“So we’re committed to playing a certain way … we’re unapologetic about that and we’re going to continue to do the things we feel like we need to do to win.”
The Rams sported a winning record on Oct. 27 for the first time in seven years. Feels more like 15.
Take out 2020, and CSU’s got a 14-24 mark over its last five Oct. 27ths. This is usually the point in the season where fans of a 3-5 team try to squint really hard to see six wins and a postseason berth.
But not this fall. The Rams just capped off their first winning October (3-1) since 2019 (that team went 2-1 with a bye) and first in an October with four games or more since — well, 2017 again.
But because this is CSU, even the fun in Fort Fun doesn’t seem to come easy. Norvell’s Rams are a curious creature right now, a winning team that’s sometimes painful even for the faithful to watch.
CSU’s scored 17 points or fewer three times this season; had to hang for dear life against a 1-6 Air Force crew; let a pass-poor, mediocre Oregon State bunch escape in double OT after pinning the Beavs to the ropes; and got pummeled by the only two ranked teams on its fight card (Texas, CU) by a combined score of 80-9. For every step forward for Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi, the young QB often seems to take a teensy step back.
And yet the last month might be Norvell’s best pure coaching job since his arrival in FoCo before the 2022 season.
Related Articles
Sports Columnists |
Renck vs. Keeler: Is Broncos QB Bo Nix really outplaying No. 1 pick Caleb Williams?
Sports Columnists |
Keeler: CU Buffs QB Shedeur Sanders torched Cincinnati while battling a bad leg and flu bug. So where’s the Heisman Trophy love?
Sports Columnists |
Keeler: CU Buffs’ Robert Livingston making Deion Sanders’ coordinator Hail Mary look like coaching genius so far
Sports Columnists |
Grading The Week: Buffs and Rams fans making bowl plans, in same year, for first time in ages
Sports …read more
Source:: The Denver Post – Sports
