Overview
- The season opener is set for Thursday, Sept. 3, at Bobby Dodd Stadium with kickoff on ESPN at 8 p.m. ET (6 p.m. MT) and SportsCenter staging pregame coverage from the Peters Parking Deck.
- Stopping Georgia Tech’s run game is presented as Colorado’s decisive task, after the Yellow Jackets rushed for 320 yards in last year’s meeting and added Michigan transfer Justice Haynes to lead the backfield.
- Colorado enters with major turnover: new coordinators Brennan Marion and Chris Marve, an influx of transfers, and redshirt freshman Julian Lewis named the Week 1 starting quarterback.
- Coach Deion Sanders acknowledged the team still has not finalized a field-goal kicker, leaving a late roster decision that could affect close-game outcomes.
- Betting markets and predictive models favor Georgia Tech by roughly 6.5–7 points, and the result could shape short-term perception of Colorado given last season’s defensive struggles against the run.