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Colorado ‘went up in flames’ during fired coach’s tenure: Analyst

By Andrew Hughes

As Saturday Blitz' Connor Muldowney said without mincing words, the Colorado football program "went up in flames" during Karl Dorrell's tenure Mandatory Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre-USA TODAY Sports
As Saturday Blitz' Connor Muldowney said without mincing words, the Colorado football program "went up in flames" during Karl Dorrell's tenure Mandatory Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre-USA TODAY Sports /
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Colorado football “went up in flames” from 2020 to 2022 under fired head coach Karl Dorrell, so says Saturday Blitz’ Connor Muldowney — who sees new coach Deion Sanders as needing to “pick up the pieces” in the wake of a three-year stretch that saw the Buffaloes win just eight times.

“The Karl Dorrell era didn’t go quite as planned and, well, it went up in flames like many expected when he was hired following the departure of Mel Tucker,” Muldowney prefaced before saying, “Now, Sanders is left to pick up the pieces and he’s already made a ton of changes within the program.”

To be fair to Dorrell, CU managed the pandemic season better than most Pac-12 schools. Losses to Utah and Texas in a bowl game were hardly anything to be ashamed of, and a 4-2 record was the team’s best record since 2016. But how badly things unraveled in 2022, losing to Group of Five Air Force being rock bottom in an admittedly difficult schedule, had to be the last straw for the longtime NFL/collegiate coach.

Analyst calls Nebraska and Colorado State games ‘likely wins’ for Colorado football

Muldowney is higher on the Buffs than most, calling Colorado State and Nebraska “likely wins” for Colorado football. Seeing the Rams called that isn’t shocking, since CSU is a projected bottom-tier team in the Mountain West for the 2023 season.

But Nebraska? So much for all that Matt Rhule hype.

“In the first month of the year, there are two games that are likely wins,” Muldowney prefaced before saying, “A home game against Nebraska and another against Colorado State could very well end up in the win column. I don’t see them beating TCU or Oregon on the road or toppling USC in Boulder.”

Cornhusker corners of the web have claimed CU’s sellouts were Nebraska’s doing, so a Folsom Field triumph for the black and gold would be as feel-good as feel-good gets. By halftime of Colorado-TCU, though, with Minnesota-Nebraska having already been played by that point, we’ll know if Buffaloes-Cornhuskers is a lean one way or another.

Though then again, it is college football. So can we ever really know?

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