Offensive line might be the toughest position in college football to earn a starting job as a true freshman.

Ben Gula isn’t worried about history, though. He’s coming to Colorado next month with confidence.

“I definitely think year one, I’ll be a contributor,” said Gula, who signed with CU last week. He is set to graduate from Cypress Bay (Florida) High School and enroll at CU in January.

Since freshmen became eligible in 1972, only 16 have made starts at CU on the offensive line. Only three of those were centers, but all three of those have been recent. Van Wells was the first true freshman to start games at center for CU, in 2022 (six starts), while Hank Zilinskas made two starts in 2023 and Cash Cleveland made four starts in 2024.

Gula is hoping to join that group, and he knows ther

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