The Buffs will play a balanced 13-game non-con schedule.
For those looking to get an early look at Barrington Hargress and the 2025-26 Colorado Buffaloes, the non-conference schedule is locked in with plenty of early home games.
The Buffs will begin the season with an exhibition against NAIA power Grace College, where senior center Elijah Malone played three years before moving to Boulder. After that are five quick games against Montana State, Eastern Washington, Providence, Alabama State and UC Davis.
None of those teams were very good last season. Providence should be better, however, as they have retooled the roster after they went 12-20 in Kim English’s first season in charge. This game should be 50/50, maybe a bit towards CU’s side since it’s at the CU Events Center.
That game against UC Davis — reverse shoutout to Dan Hawkins — is the first game of the 2025 Acrisure Series. That first game is in Boulder, but the rest will be in Palm Desert, California, where the Buffs will be joined by teams like Utah, Washington and Minnesota.
Colorado will then play four more winnable home games against California Baptist, UT-San Antonio (meep meep), Portland State and Northern Colorado. Maybe those teams are better than expected (and maybe CU is worse than expected) but the Buffs shouldn’t have much trouble.
The trouble will be on the road, where the Buffs take the backroads up to Fort Collins to face Colorado State, and then travel to Phoenix for a clash with Stanford. CSU is a very good team, even without Nique Clifford, and everyone knows Niko Medved will have that team ready to avenge last year’s 17-point loss to CU.
It’s tough to say how good each team is, especially with transfer portal mayhem, but the Buffs are looking at 8-10 wins — maybe more — in their 13 game non-con.
You can view the full schedule here.