October 27th, 2018 Who: Colorado Buffaloes vs. Oregon State Beavers Where: Folsom Field - Boulder, Colorado When: 1:00 p.m. MT TV: Pac-12 Networks Radio: AM 850 KOA Weather: 68 Degrees, Mostly Sunny Oregon State Blog: Building the Dam Line: CU -24 Welcome to the Ralphie Report as the Colorado Buffaloes get ready to take on the Oregon State Beavers at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado for the fifth matchup of conference play. The Buffaloes are looking to get back in the win column for homecoming. Go Buffs! No need to go anywhere else today, The Ralphie Report has everything you need and we welcome you to weigh in with your live game analysis, critiques, observations and predictions. Check out the old game thread from the Hawaii game to see how it works. Throw all your comments about the game below and let’s get this thing rolling. If you don’t have an account, sign up here for free and enjoy all that our site has to offer. Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Google+ and Facebook. Go Buffs!<doc-sep>Who's Playing Colorado Buffaloes (home) vs. Oregon State Beavers (away) Current records: Colorado 5-2; Oregon St. 1-6 What to Know Colorado will be playing 60 minutes on Saturday, but they're expected to have things wrapped up well before that. They will take on Oregon St. at 3:00 p.m. Colorado have seen their point totals decreasing over the past four games, a vulnerability Oregon St. are surely hoping to exploit. Last Saturday, Colorado came up short against Washington, falling 13-27. This makes it the second loss in a row for Colorado. Meanwhile, Oregon St. came into their this week averaging 31.5 points per game, but Oregon St. fell well short of that average, and it cost them. They were completely outmatched, falling 7-49 to California. Oregon St. can't seem to catch a break and have now endured five losses in a row. With the two teams each stumbling in off of a defeat, both will be hungry for the win. We'll see which team satisfies their hunger and which team leaves with an empty stomach. How To Watch When: Saturday at 3:00 PM ET Saturday at 3:00 PM ET Where: Folsom Field, Colorado Folsom Field, Colorado TV: Pac 12 Networks Pac 12 Networks Online streaming: fuboTV (Try for free) fuboTV (Try for free) Follow: CBS Sports App CBS Sports App Ticket Cost: $62.02 Prediction The Buffaloes are a big 24 point favorite against the Beavers. This season, Colorado are 5-1-0 against the spread. As for Oregon St., they are 1-5-0 against the spread Vegas was right in line with the betting community on this one, as the game opened as a 24 point spread, and stayed right there. Series History Colorado have won all of the games they've played against Oregon St. in the last 4 years.<doc-sep>BOULDER — Taking your foot off the gas is one thing. But attempting to drive while half asleep is asking for trouble, something Colorado learned the hard way Saturday. The Buffaloes lost their third straight contest, and this one was the most painful of the bunch — a 41-34 home setback in overtime to Oregon State, a team that had come in winless in the Pac-12 and just 1-6 overall. CU saw a chance to keep pace with Utah in the Pac-12 South chase go up in smoke, along with the opportunity to reach six wins and bowl eligibility with a month left in the regular season. This despite the efforts of wideout K.D. Nixon, who did the heavy lifting while things were working, posting new single-game personal bests in receptions with (13), receiving yards (198) and touchdown catches (two). But those stellar numbers were lost in the one that got away — a 3rd-and-goal throw from CU quarterback Steven Montez in overtime that Nixon, open in the back of the end zone, bobbled and couldn’t corral. The Beavers stoned the Buffaloes (5-3, 2-3 Pac-12) on Montez’s next attempt, ending the game as Oregon State players and coaches swarmed the field in celebration. Montez (24-for-39, 319 passing yards) was strong in the middle of the game and less so early and late. Nor was he helped by the fact that CU’s clock management was all over the map once the game got close, although you wouldn’t be alone in wondering why the devil it got so close in the first place. Credit Oregon State coach Jonathan Smith, who swapped starting quarterback Jack Costello with Jake Luton and got the Beavers to flip a switch, putting together scoring drives on four of their first five possessions of the second half and reeling off a 25-0 run. A 31-3 CU lead three seconds into the third quarter — thanks to tailback Travon McMillian’s 75-yard touchdown run on the first play of the period — was whittled to 31-28 with 7:13 left in the contest after a 7-yard Luton touchdown pass to Isaiah Hodgins and a Hodgins grab for a 2-point conversion. A tale of two games — heck, two narratives — was on a completely different track before things got goofy, although it took CU a few healthy whacks at the dike before water burst through. A four-minute, 71-yard march midway through the second period stalled at the Beavers’ 4 on a fumbled Montez snap, forcing the hosts to settle for a 21-yard Evan Price field goal and a 10-3 lead. Costello had found the sledding even tougher — the Buffs sacked him five times in the first half and a gift pick-6 snatched by CU cornerback Dante Wigley with 8:48 to go in the half pushed the hosts’ cushion to 16-3. The Buffs’ signal-caller tightened up from there, completing his first six pass attempts of the second quarter, including a 47-yard rainbow up the left boundary to Nixon with 6:20 left in the first half that stuck a dagger in the Beavers’ collective backs. And three plays later, Montez twisted said dagger, firing a 7-yard scoring strike to Nixon that puts the hosts up 23-3 with 4:44 left in the half. Montez led CU on four straight marches into the Oregon State red zone in late in the first quarter and early in the second, putting the Beavers in a sleeper hold and putting a homecoming crowd at ease. The big Texan completed eight of his last nine pass attempts in the first half, but it was a handoff that delivered what the locals thought was the final nail, as McMillian opened the third quarter by squirting free to daylight. It was the second time this season McMillian has opened the second half with a long touchdown scamper, having done the same in a 45-14 win over New Hampshire on September 15. Only instead of being a sequel to that rout, the Beavers found a way — somehow — to flip the script. And keep the Buffaloes’ once-promising season spinning out of control.<doc-sep>
When: Saturday at 1:00 pm MDT TV: Pac-12 Mountain (Play-by-Play: Roxy Bernstein, Color: Anthony Herron, Sideline Reporter: Lewis Johnson) In the Boulder-Denver area: Xfinity/Comcast 840 HD (430 & 431 SD), Pac-12 DISH channels include 406 and 413 (along with 5453 and 5454 in its auxiliary area). Streaming: Pac-12 Networks Live (Also available on Sling TV and FuboTV) Radio: KOA (850 AM - Local) Notes: The Colorado Buffaloes (5-2, 2-2 Pac-12) return home after two weeks on the Pac-12 road to host the Oregon State Beavers (1-6, 0-3 Pac-12) in a 1:10 p.m. MDT kickoff at Folsom Field ... It’s Colorado’s 104th Homecoming Game; the Buffaloes are 63-35-5 all-time on Homecoming, including two straight wins (40- 16 over Arizona State in 2016 and 44-28 over Cal last year) ... DT Javier Edwards will turn 22 on game day. The Pac-12 Network’s The Pregame show will be in town for the game; the hour-long program will air at Noon leading into the game (the set will be located just off Colorado Avenue adjacent to Gates 6 & 7); Ashley Adamson, Nigel Burton and Evan Moore are the hosts. CU fell out of the Top 25 (the Buffs were No. 25 in the USA Today/Coaches poll), but still received votes in last Sunday’s Associated Press balloting ... The Buffaloes need just one more win to become bowl-eligible for the second time under coach Mike MacIntyre (and for just the second time in the last 11 seasons). CU was the last undefeated team in the Pac-12 and the was the ninth remaining in the nation before its loss at USC ... Colorado has reeled off three straight wins over Oregon State to tie the series at 5-5; two of those games were in Corvallis (by a combined seven points); two years ago in Boulder the Buffs won by a 47-6 score, CU’s largest margin of victory in a league game since a 54-7 win over Kansas State in 1992 in the old Big 8 Conference ... Colorado opened 5- 0 for the first time since 1998; the loss to USC prevented a 6-0 start for the first time since 1994. Colorado is coming off a pair of road losses, 31-20 at Southern California two weeks ago and 27-13 last Saturday at Washington; CU led most of the first half and was down by one, 14-13, at intermission, but was held scoreless in the second half for the first time in 10 games … Oregon State also lost last weekend, falling 49-7 to California at home; the Bears scored 21 points in the game’s final 10 minutes but did hold the Beavers to just 241 total yards. The Oregon State game will be the 498th in Folsom Field’s history, counting down to No. 500 on Nov. 17.