text: By the skin of their lucky teeth, the Buffs avoided dropping into the Bottom 25 for another week.  However, this week they get to face an angry Washington State team that will remember last year and coming off an embarrassing shellacking by Cal.  Three wins over bad teams and a gift in the CSU game.  The rise has become The Plunge.
  
  Defense is mostly about effort and CU's defensive team gets and F-.