Mike Bobo returns to CSU football team

Freshman safety Quinn Brinnon leans in to give head coach Mike Bobo a hug at practice on Wednesday. Bobo returned to the team after spending 10 days in the hospital dealing with a peripheral neuropathy, missing eight days of practice. (Mike Brohard / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

FORT COLLINS — Mike Bobo didn't want to be in the hospital. Nobody does, but he definitely didn't want to be in there for 10 days.

"It seemed like an eternity," the Colorado State head football coach said Wednesday, three days out from the season opener Saturday against Hawaii at Canvas Stadium (5:30 p.m.).

But what he hated most was being away from his football team since Aug. 11, when he checked himself into a hospital…