Colorado State Week One at a Glance

It is official: Colorado State has not won a game since they beat Nevada last September.

It would seem that we didn't leave much more to discuss, statistically, from Thursday night's season opener, so I'm moving on.

Colorado State hosted in-state rival Colorado this afternoon, and the results weren't pretty for the Rams.  CSU eventually found a way to put points on the board, but not before the Buffs had exhausted their scoring output for the game midway through the 4th quarter.

Since they did play at Colorado State I did not have the opportunity of watching this game; judging by the statistics I can only let out a sigh of relief.

Team Stat Comparison (from ESPN)

	Colorado	Colorado St
1st Downs	18	14
3rd down efficiency	5-13	1-12
4th down efficiency	0-0	0-2
Total Yards	307	245
Passing	192	196
Comp-Att	17-25	24-33
Yards per pass	11.3	8.2
Rushing	115	49
Rushing Attempts	35	25
Yards per rush	3.3	2.0
Penalties	10-104	2-35
Turnovers	1	3
Fumbles lost	0	0
Interceptions thrown	1	3
Possession	32:38	27:22

So Colorado, who had a fairly poor season themselves in 2009, was able to slam around CSU to the tune of 24-3, and they did it on 18 first downs, with 307 total yards of offense, 5 conversions of 13 attempts on 3rd down, and committing 10 penalties for a total loss of 104 yards.

The Rams, meanwhile, only committed two penalties for 35 yards and kept the time of possession reasonably close, yet managed 245 total yards (including 49 yards from 25 attempts on the ground, averaging 1.96 yards per rush), were 1/12 on 3rd down, AND Pete Thomas threw three interceptions.

Just for fun, let's put both first week comparisons together:

	Nevada	Colorado St
1st Downs	24	14
3rd down efficiency	8-15	1-12
4th down efficiency	3-3	0-2
Total Yards	553	245
Passing	339	196
Comp-Att	27-38	24-33
Yards per pass	12.6	8.2
Rushing	214	49
Rushing Attempts	44	25
Yards per rush	4.9	2.0
Penalties	9-90	2-35
Turnovers	1	3
Fumbles lost	1	0
Interceptions thrown	0	3
Possession	34:11	27:22

Nevada will be looking for redemption when the Rams visit Mackay Stadium this weekend...redemption for September 19th, 2009 and the 'what the hell just happened' loss in Fort Collins.  After a day like this day, Colorado State will be frothing for redemption for September 4th, 2010; looking at those numbers, it should be fun to find out which team will be redeemed and which will be vanquished.

Coming tomorrow: Nevada vs. CSU all-time record and data.