Anoth­er week, anoth­er foot­ball sea­son waives goodbye.

Last week, it was Colorado’s prep ath­letes. This week, it’s Colorado’s col­lege athletes.

For the love of all that is holy — and, yes, that includes Bron­cos foot­ball (most of the time) — let’s do every­thing we can to make sure the train stops there. The Grad­ing the Week staff can’t take much more of this.

Nebraska — F

There’s real­i­ty, and then there’s what­ev­er is going on inside the state of Nebraska.

We got a taste of both this week when the Big Ten post­poned its fall foot­ball sea­son, and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Nebras­ka stomped its col­lec­tive feet and declared the Huskers were play­ing anyway.

Exact­ly who their oppo­nents would be — or how they could do so and also com­pete in a spring Big Ten sea­son — was a mys­tery. And one, frankly, it appears they hadn’t even con­sid­ered pri­or to throw­ing a uni­ver­si­ty-wide tantrum.

Ath­let­ic direc­tor Bill Moos admit­ted as much two days lat­er when he con­ced­ed a fall sched­ule “was not per­mis­si­ble.”

Not a great look for a pro­gram that hasn’t deliv­ered so much as a ham sand­wich since join­ing the B1G in 2011.

It’s one thing to be uni­fied in pur­pose. It’s quite anoth­er to be uni­fied in delusion.

For a group charged with being the adults on cam­pus, NU’s coach­es and admin­is­tra­tors failed miserably.

Charlie Blackmon — A+

The hit­ting streak is over. The Rock­ies’ hold on first place in the NL West is tenuous.

But everyone’s favorite LoDo Sog­gy Bot­tom Boy is putting togeth­er a sea­son wor­thy of MVP chat­ter.

The num­bers enter­ing this weekend’s series with the Texas Rangers: .472/.506/.681 with six dou­bles, 20 RBIs and 12 mul­ti-hit games in 18 played. Thin air or not, those are some insane stats. Keep this up, and Col­orado just might make some Rock­to­ber noise.

As for whether a .400 sea­son would “count” in this year’s 60-game sprint… well, let’s get back to that at a lat­er date.

Nuggets’ depth — C

Michael Porter Jr. stole our hearts back in Jan­u­ary. Bol Bol had us swoon­ing just a cou­ple of weeks ago. Heck, we’ve even enjoyed sev­er­al moments of the PJ Dozi­er Experience.

But wouldn’t it be nice for the Nuggets to actu­al­ly have a full ros­ter when their play­off series against the Utah Jazz begins Monday?

Where have you gone, Will Bar­ton and Gary Har­ris? Nuggets Nation turns its lone­ly eyes to you.

There’s no way Den­ver gets to the West­ern Con­fer­ence finals with­out them.

Nazem Kadri — A

Nazem Kadri’s last two trips to the play­offs were defined by the times he didn’t play — both due to sus­pen­sions while with the Toron­to Maple Leafs in 2018 and ’19. It appears he’s mak­ing up for lost time with the Avalanche.

A crit­i­cal piece of Colorado’s off­sea­son depth makeover, the 29-year-old for­ward has played with notice­able inten­si­ty through the first two play­off games and has been a cat­a­lyst in both wins.

In Game 1, that trans­lat­ed into sev­en shots on goal and the grit­ty game-win­ner in the third peri­od. In Game 2, Kadri had only one shot, but it was a big one — a spin­ning wris­ter from the left side that car­omed direct­ly to Andre Burakovsky for the game-win­ner with less than three min­utes to go.

As my esteemed col­league Mark Kis­zla point­ed out ear­li­er this week, such deter­mi­na­tion is how play­off hock­ey series are won.

The best part: We even got to it (legal­ly).