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TUCSON, Ariz. — A total letdown.
The Colorado State football team had big talk about the importance of making and winning a bowl game, but the Rams put in a poor performance in front of a big Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl crowd.
Miami (Ohio) took advantage of frequent CSU mistakes and won the 2024 Arizona Bowl 43-17.
Here are takeaways from the game.
Colorado State football team misses the moment
This was a stage CSU fans and administration have been chasing for years.
CSU had not played in a bowl in seven years. The Rams have been desperate to boost the football program to relevancy.
It came with this bowl. Snoop Dogg is an icon and the first year of his sponsorship of the Arizona Bowl brought lots of interest and intrigue.
It was a surreal show, with Snoop stopping by the team locker rooms before the game. Social media was awash with photos of Snoop and CSU.
It was a huge crowd for a mid-tier bowl (announced at just over 40,000). The Rams sold out their allotment of tickets multiple times.
And the team failed to meet the moment.
One game in a weird bowl season won’t dictate the future of the program (good or bad result) but this was a great chance to take momentum and pour gasoline on it.
This was a fire extinguisher instead.
So many CSU fans were ready for this. The pep rally the night before was electric. Wall-to-wall with CSU fans celebrating the return to relevancy for the program.
Now many of the familiar questions will re-emerge about the team under Jay Norvell.
Is this program truly heading the direction it needs to go ahead of the 2026 move to the Pac-12? Eight wins can’t be ignored, but the huge letdowns in big games (highlighted by the bowl and the game against Colorado) are big red flags.
Familiar worries haunt CSU again
Norvell repeatedly said the Rams needed to play clean to beat Miami.
CSU turned the ball over four…
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Author : The Coloradoan
Publish date : 2024-12-29 01:18:00
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