breh, CSU was #7 in the country at one point while in the WAC
CSU were actually #10 when they played Michigan in the holiday bowl
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I went to watch them play Hawaii one year I lived in Denver. The stadium is nice because it’s pointed right at the Rockies but that bih was half full and it has the atmosphere of a lower division high school game. I’m used to 200,000 people descending on Ann Arbor but you could probably walk in their and pick any seat you want. There were probably more Hawaii fans
Colorado fans are a little more serious about football but they fell off hard after Kordell Stewart. The Broncos own that region now. Mel Tucker finessing them was the end of their chapter