The Odyssey is paying a long-awaited visit to Colorado Springs on Saturday.

What can top being at 6,000 feet on a pristine mountain afternoon watching the pre-game festivities with jets welcoming a rare contest against instate rival Colorado?

The Buffs have not visited Colorado Springs since 1974 (CU won a 28-27 barnburner).  From their perspective, Colorado may not have picked a worse year to return.  Let us start counting their red flags:

  1. Colorado’s weak offense got weaker with the transfer of Jarek Broussard to Michigan State.  Broussard average 5.2 yards per carry during 1920-21, particularly impressive in that nobody confused the 2021 Colorado offensive line with the Seven Blocks of Granite.
  2. The Buffs are coming off a 2nd half meltdown in Boulder.  Only down 7-6 at halftime, CU got blown out, 41-13, by TCU.
  3. Colorado’s QB play is uninspiring.  Both 2021 starter, Brendon Lewis, and J.T. Shrout played in the opener.  Mum is the word as to who the starter will be at Air Force.  This appears to be a case of  “When you have 2 QBs, you have no QB’s.”
  4. TCU romped for 275 rushing yards.  Uh, Oh!!  Air Force’s rushing game led the country in 2021.  No anticipated downturn in 2022 as the Falcons’ top 4 rushers return.

The 2022 Air Force squad is considered by some to be potentially the best Falcon squad ever.  When Colorado scheduled this game, nobody in Boulder envisioned that CU would visit as a 17-point underdog.  The Odyssey is quite bullish on this year’s AFA team.   We regarded Air Force exceeding 8.5 wins as one of the best pre-season bets on the board.

We remain higher than 6,000 feet on Air Force.  We anticipate a lot of happy future pilots come Saturday evening.