Kay, well, needless to say, this Colorado defense is not the same defense that Washington went up against in the 2016 Pac-12 Championship Game. Like, at all. For example, their most recent game was the win against Stanford, where the Buffaloes allowed less than 30 points for the first time in conference play. Previously, they’d given up 31 to UCLA, 35 to USC, 41 to WSU, 45 to Oregon, 35 to Arizona, and 31 to ASU.
The three most common personnel groupings in the film I’ve watched has been by far a 3-3-5 or 3-4 (shout out to non-nickel, old school-style formations), with their usage of both being versatile depending on their opponents’ offensive tendencies; against USC’s new air raid-ish offense, for example, they were almost exclusively nickel, while other, more balanced attacks like Oregon faced a Colorado defense whose formations would be equally balanced.