College Football

2024 Colorado State football predictions: Ranked No. 96 by RJ Young

Updated Aug. 23, 2024 8:05 p.m. ET

FOX Sports National College Football Analyst

Colorado State Rams Ranking: 96/134

[Check out RJ Young's ultimate 134 college football rankings here]

Conference ranking: 7th in Mountain West (+1200 to win conference)
Teams ahead of them: Northern Illinois (95), Bowling Green (94), Washington State (93), Georgia State (92), Pittsburgh (91)
Teams behind them: Indiana (97), Stanford (98), Vanderbilt (99), MTSU (100), Army (101)

[Colorado State 2024 schedule]

RJ's take: It’s been seven years since the Rams enjoyed a winning season — Mike Bobo’s 7-6 year in 2017. This is the program that has recently produced Mackey Award winner Trey McBride, Shaq Barrett, Michael Gallup and Rashard Higgins, had a 3,460-yard passer in Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi and a First Team All-He-Down-There-Somewhere receiver in Tory Horton (96 catches, 1,136 yards, eight TDs) and still can't break even.

Jay Norvell enters Year 3 with an 8-16 record with an EDGE in Nuer Gatkuoth who had 11.5 tackles for loss, and a safety in Henry Blackburn who had three INTS and seven tackles for loss last year.

Something’s gotta give.

Colorado State's Win Total Odds: Over 5.5 (-140) Under 5.5 (+120)

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