Colorado Buffaloes
FBS
Big 12 Conference · COLO
Team Vitals
+14.6
power · 2026 · #56 D1
+4.8 / +9.7
off / def (higher = better)
2–0
2026 record
106
roster (2026)
Team profile 2025 · vs 136 FBS teams
Percentile against every FBS team, from 2025 play with garbage time excluded. No 2026 game has been played yet, so this describes last season.
- Win rate 8%ile 0.250
- Offense (PPA/play) 21%ile 0.094
- Defense (PPA allowed) 13%ile 0.250
- Offensive success rate 6%ile 0.348
- Defensive success rate allowed 30%ile 0.434
- Explosiveness 96%ile 1.423
- Explosiveness allowed 8%ile 1.402
- Plays per game 25%ile 57.8
median · bars right of it are above the FBS average · pace is a style, not a grade
Upcoming 2026
| Date | Wk | Opponent | Site | Model Lean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-19 | Wk 3 | Northwestern FBS | AWAY | Northwestern 59% |
| 2026-09-26 | Wk 4 | Baylor FBS | AWAY | Baylor 60% |
| 2026-10-03 | Wk 5 | Texas Tech FBS | HOME | Texas Tech 74% |
| 2026-10-17 | Wk 7 | Utah FBS | HOME | Utah 80% |
| 2026-10-24 | Wk 8 | Oklahoma State FBS | AWAY | Colorado 63% |
| 2026-10-31 | Wk 9 | Kansas State FBS | HOME | Kansas State 70% |
| 2026-11-07 | Wk 10 | Arizona State FBS | AWAY | Arizona State 53% |
| 2026-11-13 | Wk 11 | Houston FBS | HOME | Colorado 56% |
| 2026-11-21 | Wk 12 | Cincinnati FBS | AWAY | Cincinnati 59% |
| 2026-11-28 | Wk 13 | UCF FBS | HOME | Colorado 57% |
Recent Results
| Date | Season | Wk | Opponent | Result | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | 2026 | Wk 2 | Weber State vs | W | 52–21 |
| 2026-09-03 | 2026 | Wk 1 | Georgia Tech @ | W | 14–13 |
| 2025-11-29 | 2025 | Wk 14 | Kansas State @ | L | 14–24 |
| 2025-11-22 | 2025 | Wk 13 | Arizona State vs | L | 17–42 |
| 2025-11-08 | 2025 | Wk 11 | West Virginia @ | L | 22–29 |
| 2025-11-01 | 2025 | Wk 10 | Arizona vs | L | 17–52 |
| 2025-10-25 | 2025 | Wk 9 | Utah @ | L | 7–53 |
| 2025-10-11 | 2025 | Wk 7 | Iowa State vs | W | 24–17 |
| 2025-10-04 | 2025 | Wk 6 | TCU @ | L | 21–35 |
| 2025-09-27 | 2025 | Wk 5 | BYU vs | L | 21–24 |
| 2025-09-20 | 2025 | Wk 4 | Wyoming vs | W | 37–20 |
| 2025-09-12 | 2025 | Wk 3 | Houston @ | L | 20–36 |
Season by Season
| Season | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 66 | 34 | +32 |
| 2025 | 3 | 9 | 251 | 366 | -115 |
| 2024 | 9 | 4 | 428 | 300 | +128 |
| 2023 | 4 | 8 | 338 | 418 | -80 |
| 2022 | 1 | 11 | 185 | 534 | -349 |
| 2021 | 4 | 8 | 225 | 320 | -95 |
| 2020 | 4 | 2 | 171 | 190 | -19 |
| 2019 | 5 | 7 | 282 | 382 | -100 |
| 2018 | 5 | 7 | 325 | 327 | -2 |
| 2017 | 5 | 7 | 317 | 338 | -21 |
| 2016 | 10 | 4 | 435 | 304 | +131 |
| 2015 | 4 | 9 | 320 | 357 | -37 |
Injuries
Not an injury report. College football has no league-wide mandated one, and the ESPN feed we poll has carried the same three players all season — so an empty table here means nothing has been reported to us, not that the team is healthy. Nothing on this page, and nothing in our model, uses it.
Player grades 2026 season
Box production, opponent-adjusted, ranked within position (50 = positional average). OL rows are team-inferred — college football publishes no individual OL box stats. Full leaderboard →
| Player | Pos | Grade | Pos rank | G | 2026 season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamont Lester Jr. | DL | 88 | #19 | 2 | 7 tkl · 4.0 sacks · 5.0 TFL |
| Toby Anene | DL | 82 | #58 | 2 | 6 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 2.0 TFL |
| Randon Fontenette | DB | 75 | #138 | 2 | 12 tkl · 1 INT |
| Julian Lewis | QB | 73 | #44 | 2 | 490 pass yds · 5 TD · 0 INT |
| Joseph Williams | WR | 71 | #165 | 2 | 6 rec · 146 yds · 2 TD |
| Micah Welch | RB | 71 | #114 | 2 | 164 rush yds · 2 TD · 1 rec |
| DeAndre Moore Jr. | WR | 68 | #217 | 2 | 8 rec · 144 yds · 1 TD |
| Charlie Williams | TE | 68 | #73 | 2 | 3 rec · 51 yds · 1 TD |
| Santana Hopper | DL | 67 | #449 | 2 | 2 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 1.5 TFL |
| Gideon ESPN Lampron | LB | 66 | #266 | 2 | 9 tkl · 2.5 TFL |
| Naeten Mitchell | DB | 65 | #476 | 2 | 12 tkl |
| Jason Stokes Jr. | DB | 65 | #489 | 1 | 2 tkl · 3 PD |
| Cree Thomas | DB | 64 | #551 | 2 | 7 tkl · 2 PD |
| Chauncey Gooden team-inferred | OL | 61 | #27 | 1 | — |
| Tyler Martinez | LB | 60 | #475 | 2 | 11 tkl · 1.0 TFL |
| Boo Carter | DB | 58 | #881 | 2 | 5 tkl · 1 PD |
| Jah Jah Boyd | DB | 58 | #882 | 2 | 10 tkl |
| Preston Ashley | DB | 56 | #1052 | 1 | 1 tkl · 2 PD |
| Liona Lefau | LB | 55 | #673 | 2 | 10 tkl |
| Ernest Campbell | WR | 55 | #699 | 1 | 1 rec · 48 yds · 1 TD |
| Dylan Manuel | DL | 55 | #1260 | 2 | 4 tkl · 1.0 TFL |
| Damon Greaves | P | 54 | #105 | 2 | 9 punts · 44.2 yd avg |
| Elliot Arnold | K | 54 | #166 | 1 | 1 FG · 7 XP · 10 pts |
| Zach Atkins | TE | 53 | #263 | 1 | 3 rec · 28 yds |
| Damian Henderson II | RB | 53 | #567 | 2 | 88 rush yds |
| Kaneal Sweetwyne | QB | 53 | #289 | 1 | 35 pass yds · 0 INT · 25 rush yds |
| Carson Crawford | LB | 52 | #831 | 2 | 4 tkl · 1.0 TFL |
| Quency Wiggins | DL | 52 | #1499 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Danny Scudero | WR | 52 | #886 | 2 | 6 rec · 25 yds |
| RJ Johnson | DB | 51 | #1432 | 1 | 2 tkl · 1 PD |
| Quentin Gibson | WR | 50 | #966 | 1 | 5 rec · 24 yds |
| JaQuail Smith | RB | 49 | #687 | 2 | 61 rush yds |
| DeKalon Taylor | RB | 49 | #691 | 2 | 22 rush yds · 2 rec |
| Kam Perry | WR | 46 | #1145 | 1 | 3 rec · 22 yds |
| Makari Vickers | DB | 45 | #1913 | 2 | 1 tkl · 1 PD |
| Samu Taumanupepe | DL | 45 | #2131 | 2 | 3 tkl |
| Ben Finneseth | DB | 44 | #1965 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Kylan Salter | DL | 42 | #2312 | 1 | — |
| Justin Eaglin | DB | 40 | #2291 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Richard Young | RB | 38 | #1059 | 2 | 13 rush yds |