Dan Hawkins Feeling Pressure at Colorado

Is Game 2 of any football season too early to trot out the “must win” angle? And at Toledo, of all places? Perhaps not for the Colorado Buffaloes, who enter Toledo’s Glass Bowl Friday night (7 p.m. MDT, ESPN) hoping to reveal to themselves and a concerned fan base that what happened six days ago on their home turf was not a portent of their 2009 season. Stunned by a 23-17 opening loss on Sunday to rival Colorado State, CU faces another non-BCS school shouldering that same aggravating chip. After watching tape of CU’s insipid start against CSU, Toledo, a Mid-American Conference member, might view its visitors as the soft filling in a BCS cookie. After opening with a 52-31 loss at Purdue, the Rockets play No. 8 Ohio State next week in the Cleveland Browns Stadium. – CUBuffs.com