Colorado State University Athletics
Game notes: Rams meet another top 10 team
10/18/2010 12:00:00 AM | Football
Oct. 18, 2010
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This week’s notable storylines…
- CSU plays its third ranked team over a four-week stretch, and its second top 10 opponent in that span.
- CSU looks to snap a four-year losing slide against the Utes. The last time CSU beat Utah was one of the best games in series history, a 21-17 triumph in 2005 at Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium, completed by a goal-line stand in the final minutes. CSU last won at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Oct. 19, 2002.
- The Rams and Utes play perhaps one of their last games for the foreseeable future, as Utah will move to the new Pac-12 in 2011. One of the richest rivalries west of the Mississippi River, these programs first met on Oct. 25, 1902, battling to a 0-0 tie in Salt Lake City.
- The game features the nation’s leading kickoff returner, Derek Good, and the nation’s No. 1 kickoff-return team, Utah. CSU ranks fifth. Utah also leads the MWC with a 46.8-yard net average on kickoff coverage.
- TE Eric Peitz has caught touchdowns on three consecutive passes.
- Defensive Player of the Week Guy Miller and the Rams’ defense try to build off of momentum from last week.
- CSU true freshman QB Pete Thomas, who was 7-for-his-first-7 for 219 yards and three TDs in leading the Rams on five touchdown drives over their first six possessions last week, makes his eighth start. He follows in the footsteps of another former MWC true freshman starter, Utah’s Jordan Wynn.
- Thomas has one INT over his last 110 passes.
- CSU, with two straight 200-yard rushing efforts, meets the nation’s No. 13 rushing defense.
The setting...
Date: Saturday, Oct. 23
Kickoff: 4:06 p.m. MDT
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Site: Rice-Eccles Stadium
Capacity/Surface: 45,017/FieldTurf
Series: Utah leads, 54-22-2
Broadcast information
Television — The Mtn.
DirecTV: Ch. 616
DirecTV: Ch. 616-1 (HD)
Comcast Digital Cable: Ch. 411
Comcast HD: Ch. 948
DISH Network: Unavailable
Play-by-play: Ari Wolfe
Color Analyst: Blaine Fowler
Sideline Reporter: Sammy Linebaugh
Producer: Jeff Graham
Colorado State Sports Network
Flagship station: KLZ, 560-AM, Denver
Internet: CSURams.com/allaccess
Voice of the Rams: Brian Roth
Color Analyst: Kevin McGlue
Sideline: Abby Waner
Engineer: Bob Greenfield
The Colorado State radio broadcast begins with a pregame show two hours prior to kickoff.
Satellite Radio: Sirius XM, Ch. 91
LiveStats: CSURams.com (GameTracker)
