Having already looked at the Colorado offense and defense, let’s look at the coaching staff and special teams of the Buffaloes.
The Buffs have a new head coach this season after former head coach Mike MacIntyre was fired after last season. To replace MacIntyre, Colorado hired Georgia’s defensive coordinator Mel Tucker. Tucker had followed Kirby Smart to Georgia after spending a year on Nick Saban’s staff in Alabama.
Tucker spent the previous ten seasons in the NFL as the defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars and Chicago Bears. While Tucker comes to Colorado with no collegiate head coaching experience, he did serve as the interim head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2011 for five games following the firing of Jack Del Rio.