A Ram talked trash. Derrion Rakestraw didn't engage.

BOULDER — The Rocky Mountain Showdown is a big deal, and it’s going to be an even bigger deal in 2020.

The Showdown will return to a college campus for the first time in 10 years when the game is played at Canvas Stadium in Fort Collins. In those last 10 meetings — when the game was played at the Broncos’ stadium in Denver — Colorado has beaten Colorado State eight times.

Nobody on the CSU roster has ever beaten Colorado, including junior tight end Trey McBride.

“I’m planning on going out there and destroying them,” McBride said last week. “That’s what everyone has in mind, and that’s what we are going to plan on doing. It’s really who wants it more Sept. 5 and I think we’ll be more hungry than they will be.”

The Buffs were quiet following McBride’s comments, but senior safety Derrion Rakestraw was asked whether he’d heard the comments during a media availability last week.

“I did see that quote and we should be on their minds,” Rakestraw said. “But that is not where we are at right now. We’re focused on the work we have to put in to get to that point. The words are going to speak on the field. We don’t have to do too much talking as a team. The work we are putting in now is going to speak for itself when we play them.”

Rakestraw wasn’t as fiery as one might have expected, but maybe Dimitri Stanley or Terrance Lang will be willing to engage when they talk to reporters on Thursday.