Mavs Take On Western State Colorado University

You could go all up and down the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference football statistics and find reasons why the Mavs should win Saturday.
But throw out the statistics for the 1 p.m. game when Western State Colorado University comes to Stocker Stadium to play Colorado Mesa University.
The Mavs are on top of the Mountaineers in most statistical categories, but don't think for a minute that CMU head coach Russ Martin and the rest of the coaching staff would let the Mavericks overlook Western State.
For one thing, the two teams are big rivals, and anything can happen in rivalry games.
More than that, though, if the Mavericks can win Saturday and again in the season finale next week at Adams State University, CMU can finish in the top half of the RMAC. The Mavs are 3-4 in the RMAC now and 3-6 overall and a pair of wins to close out the season would give the Mavs a 5-4 RMAC record in Martin's first year at the helm.
The Mavs finished 4-7 overall last year and 3-6 in the RMAC.
"That would be an improvement over last year, and something to build on," Martin said.
But you can't win both without focusing on this weekend first.
And you can't look past any team in the RMAC.
Game on.

(Thanks to contributor Greg Reed who joins Zane Mathews in the booth for CMU football broadcasts{Saturday 12:30pm} on AM 1230 KEXO,  99.9 FM KEKB, and 101.1 FM , Parachute/RIfle)