Oh, I give Colorado credit for being better this year than last. They aren't bad by any means. Like several Big 12 teams this year. Many Big 12 teams are just average this year IMHO. And Colorado's remaining schedule is very favorable because of that. They have Texas Tech 3-2, Utah 1-4, Kansas 1-4 and Oklahoma State 0-5 left to play. Not real difficult.
Let's use two conference leaders BYU and Iowa State as examples. BYU's conference wins are against teams with conference wins that are 4-1 K-State, 2-3 Baylor, 1-4 Arizona, 1-4 UCF and 0-5 Oklahoma State which they just barely beat. Iowa State's are 1-4 Houston, 2-3 Baylor, 3-2 West Virginia and 1-4 UCF.