CSU Rams' Jim Mora isn't kidding when he sees College Football Playoff

FORT COLLINS — Playoffs? You kidding me? Jim Mora’s talking about playoffs? At CSU?

“Yes. 100%,” Rams athletic director John Webber told me with a straight face Monday. “If other programs out of the Mountain West and the Pac-12 can do it, CSU can and will do it.”

“You’re convinced Jim will get you there?” I asked.

“Yes,” Weber replied. “Absolutely.”

Didn’t blink.

Didn’t stutter.

“I love to go uphill,” Jim Mora, CSU’s fourth new football coach in seven years and sixth since 2010 , said during his introductory news conference at Canvas Stadium Monday afternoon.

“And I think that’s a metaphor for my personality in general, because I love to embrace hard things. And I stood here (Monday) and I (looked out) there and I saw the top of those mountains. I said, ‘I’m going to get up th