The road can be a lonely, lonely place.

There is no home cooking or familiar surroundings and hotel beds will never match the comfort of the plush mattress waiting in one's own bedroom. For the Colorado Buffaloes, there haven't been many wins either.

In Tad Boyle's three seasons as the headman in Boulder, his teams are just 7-20 in true road games but 36-4 at home.

Now, no one would try and say that road wins are easy to come by. Data in every sport both professional and collegiate suggests the exact opposite.

But at what point do slight concerns over a team's ability to perform away from home turn into legitimate criticism?

The answer is, right now.



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