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October 31st – @Oklahoma #19 Oklahoma 49, Colorado 0
The Oklahoma blowout was, unfortunately, more familiar territory for the Buffs.
Having started out uncharacteristically slow at 1-2-1, the Sooners faced the Buffs with a 3-2-1 record, coming off consecutive romps over Kansas (45-7) and Oregon State (42-3). The game represented the 10th consecutive game Colorado faced a ranked Oklahoma team. Steve Vogel received his second (and last) start of the 1981 season, passing for a paltry 64 yards, completing only eight of 29 attempts, with three interceptions. Vogel’s 41 rushing yards (scrambling, run for your life sort of yards) were second on the team, with Lee Rouson leading the team with 57 yards on 15 carries.
Combined with the 82-42 embarrassment of a year before and a 49-24 romp in 1979, Chuck Fairbanks’ record against Oklahoma, the team he had led to three Big Eight titles in six seasons from 1967-72, fell to 0-3, with the Buffs being outscored by a total of 180 to 66 (that, for those of you scoring at home, is an average defeat of 60-22).
Looking for a stat of a more positive nature? Well, while it could be considered a mixed message (after all, Oklahoma did roll up 348 yards rushing), the Buffs did tie an NCAA record by holding the Sooners without a pass completion. That’s right! Oklahoma attempted four passes on the afternoon, and completed zero. None. Nada. Zip.
Two schools of thought: One, the Sooners were not much of a passing team coming in, anyway, having thrown only 47 times in six times coming in; or, two, the Sooners remembered the 82-42 game, and made a genuine effort to hold the score down.
Vote here is for the latter theory. Thanks, but no thanks, NCAA, for the mention in the record books.
- Game Notes -
- Colorado would go to tie the same record in 1986, when, once again, the Buffs would hold the Sooners without a completed pass. Unfortunately for Colorado fans, the results were about the same, as Oklahoma defeated the Buffs, 28-0.
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