Best of the 2000's Counting Down the Mountain West Top 10 Teams: #9 2002 Colorado State Rams

by Jeremy Mauss on Jan 17, 2010 1:11 PM PST in Best of the 2000's

Now, it is time to continue the countdown of the decades best team, and now we move to the number nine spot.

#9 2002 Colorado State Rams (10-4)

Colorado State was the conference champs of the Mountain West that year and were the second best offense in the league with points scored. Their only conference blemish came against a 5-7 UNLV where their running game rushed nearly 400 yards in the upset win over the Rams 36-33.

Their other losses were all against winning teams Fresno State, UCLA, and then TCU in the Liberty Bowl. This team was the last of the great Rams teams coached by Sonny Lubbick that was a title contender from the early nineties to the early 2000's. From 1994 to 2002 the Rams won six conference titles.

The leaders of this team was dual threat quarterback Bradlee Van Pelt who was the 2002 offensive player of the year. In total the Rams had six players on the first team and then six more on the conference second team.

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I understand you want to list more teams than Utah, BYU, and TCU

but honorable mention 2003 Utah should be higher than 2002 CSU.

Utah finished ranked. CSU did not. Utah had fewer losses (2 versus 4). They had the same number of wins (10). They both had one loss against a team with a losing record. They both had two victories over BCS league teams (all with winning records.) Utah won their bowl game while CSU did not (the same bowl for both teams&emsash;the Liberty Bowl— back when the MWC champ played CUSA champ).

by Ute in DC on Jan 17, 2010 3:31 PM PST reply actions

i do miss sonny lubick.

he was good for that program.

i'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. i was building a house, i don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. bang. "unforgiven"

by wolfmanshowlforever on Jan 17, 2010 3:42 PM PST reply actions