Nebraska – Hot Turkey Sandwich

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Nebraska 28, Colorado 20

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 November 27, 2009          Nebraska 28, Colorado 20

For the Colorado Buffaloes, the 2009 season ended the way it began, with a disheartening home loss to a rival. A season which had the potential for “ten wins”, and the expectation of at least seven or eight wins and a bowl game, ended with a 28-20 loss to Nebraska to put an end to a miserable 3-9 season.

Against Nebraska, the offense rolled up 403 yards, a season-high against Nebraska. But, when the game was on the line in the second half, the Colorado offense failed on three consecutive trips to the red zone to produce any points.

Against Nebraska, the defense limited the Cornhuskers to 217 yards of total offense. But, when the game was on the line in the fourth quarter, the Colorado defense gave up a 13-play, 80-yard drive which consumed 6:52 of game time, and resulted in a touchdown which clinched the game for Nebraska.

Against Nebraska, the Buffs had a 100-yard rusher (Rodney Stewart, 110 yards), two 100-yard receivers (Scotty McKnight, 114 yards; Markques Simas, 108 yards), but could not produce a sustained offensive attack.

Against Nebraska, the Buffs again allowed non-offensive touchdowns, giving up a punt…

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Hot Turkey Sandwich

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Hot Turkey Sandwich

Other than flying in on Friday morning rather than Thursday night, my ritual for Nebraska gameday was pretty much the same as it has been since Colorado/Nebraska moved to Thanksgiving weekend. See if you can pick out the variation …

My flight from Bozeman to Denver was on time, and there was little traffic on my Friday morning drive to Boulder (apparently everyone else was still asleep on in a mall somewhere). The weather was perfect for football: hardly a cloud in the sky; a forecast calling for a mid-afternoon high in the 60′s. Quite simply, you couldn’t ask for more, weather-wise, from a Thanksgiving weekend. I drove up the turnpike, and, as I crested the hill overlooking Boulder, I felt that familiar twinge of excitement. Before me lay the landscape of Boulder, with snow-capped peaks in the background; the Flatirons shining in the mid-morning sun.

I stopped off at the home of Tony and Julie, who have served as gracious hosts for my CU pilgrimages for years. We sat around for awhile and caught up (okay, it had only been three weeks since the Texas A&M game, but between jobs and family, there are always topics of conversation).…

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Dan Hawkins retained as Colorado head coach

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November 26th

Dan Hawkins to be Colorado head coach in 2010

Colorado Athletic Director Mike Bohn confirmed Thursday that Dan Hawkins would indeed be the head coach at Colorado in 2010. “Dan is our coach,” said Bohn. “We will continue to have candid, constructive discussions with each other”. Bohn went on to state, “We recognize the importance of continuity to reach our desired competitve results. We have made progress on many fronts, but fully realize the importance of improvement and growth of the program in all areas.”

CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil Di Stefano echoed support for the embattled Colorado head coach, who will enter the Nebraska game with a 16-32 record in Boulder. “I want all CU fans, supporters, and members of the University community to know that I support Athletic Director Mike Bohn’s decision to honor coach Hawkins’ contract,” said Di Stefano. Then, in a statement which will make Buff fans blanch: “…(Hawkins’) team has been competitive this year,” said Di Stefano. “He has done all that we have asked him to do.”

Really? 16-32 is “all that we have asked him to do”? No other coach, in the 120- year history of the football program at Colorado, has had four…

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“T.I.P.S.” for taking out the hated “Bugeaters”

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Colorado has split the last eight games with Nebraska, one of the best runs by the Buffs in the history of the series (18-47-2). Still, the Cornhuskers have won three of the past four, and are coming to Boulder already having punched their ticket to the Big 12 championship game against Texas.

Arguably, Nebraska has nothing to play for Friday but a ninth win (and a better bowl bid if the Cornhuskers do not earn the automatic BCS bid with an upset of the Longhorns). Still, the Cornhuskers will be looking to cement their status as the “kings of the Big 12 North”, a title ceded to them by perhaps the weakest division in the BCS. ”Dominant” Nebraska is, in fact, ten years removed from their 1999 Big 12 championship, and most Cornhusker fans are painfully aware that the program has not gone a calendar decade without a title since the 1950′s.

The 2009 Cornhuskers have been far from over-powering, with an offense which has been mediocre for much of the season. Nebraska has utilized a suffocating defense to win its games, and will be looking to shut down a weak Colorado offense. If the Buffs are to pull off an upset, it will be the result taking advantage of every…

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This Day in History – Nov. 27th

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 This Day in History – November 27th

  

Colorado record on November 27th – 1-3

- 1913 – Oklahoma – L 14-3;

- 1930 – Denver – W 27-7;

- 1947 – Denver – L 26-20;

- 1998 – Nebraska – L 16-14.

 

November 27th – Colorado – best game on this date

 Colorado at #14 Nebraska           November 27, 1998

 [The Buffs came into the 1998 matchup with Nebraska with a 7-3 record. Nebraska, under new head coach Frank Solich, was 8-3, and had just lost to Kansas State for the first time since 1968, clinching the Big 12 North title for the Wildcats. Still, both teams had plenty to play for - Nebraska was ranked 14th, and had top ten aspirations. The Buffs were playing for second in the North, a better bowl, and, unbeknownst to the players, for one last chance to beat the Cornhuskers in the Neuheisal era.]

 November 27th – @ Nebraska         #14 Nebraska 16, Colorado 14

 ”General” Robert Neyland, longtime head coach at the University of Tennessee, is a legendary name in the annals of college football.  In leading the Volunteers to over 160 wins in 20 seasons, the College Football Hall of Fame coach…

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Nebraska Trivia

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 Nebraska Trivia -

- Barring a win over Texas in the Big 12 title game, and depending on the opponent and outcome of the Cornhuskers’ bowl, Nebraska is in danger of going eight full seasons without defeating a team ranked in the Top 20 – a streak which reached 25 games when Nebraska lost to No. 12 Virginia Tech earlier this season. What was the first game in the ignoble series of setbacks? The 62-36 loss to No. 14 Colorado in 2001, of course.

- National Championships – five – 1970, 1971, 1994, 1995, and 1997 (the ‘97 title being shared with Michigan)

- Heisman trophy winners – three – Johnny Rodgers (1972); Mike Rozier (1983); and Eric Crouch (2001).

- Despite being in the top five in all-time wins, Nebraska has only three entries into the NFL Hall-of-Fame (offensive tackle Bob Brown, 1964-73; end Guy Chamberlain, 1919-28; and tackle William Roy (Link) Lyman, 1922-34)

- Hard to believe, but there was a time when the Cornhuskers were amongst the mortals in college football. In the 1940′s, Nebraska went through six coaches and an overall .374 winning percentage.

- When Nebraska fell to a 7-7 record in 2002, a number…

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The Colorado Daily

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November 26th

Dan Hawkins to be Colorado head coach in 2010

Colorado Athletic Director Mike Bohn confirmed Thursday that Dan Hawkins would indeed be the head coach at Colorado in 2010. “Dan is our coach,” said Bohn. “We will continue to have candid, constructive discussions with each other”. Bohn went on to state, “We recognize the importance of continuity to reach our desired competitve results. We have made progress on many fronts, but fully realize the importance of improvement and growth of the program in all areas.”

CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil Di Stefano echoed support for the embattled Colorado head coach, who will enter the Nebraska game with a 16-32 record in Boulder. “I want all CU fans, supporters, and members of the University community to know that I support Athletic Director Mike Bohn’s decision to honor coach Hawkins’ contract,” said Di Stefano. Then, in a statement which will make Buff fans blanch: “…(Hawkins’) team has been competitive this year,” said Di Stefano. “He has done all that we have asked him to do.”

Really? 16-32 is “all that we have asked him to do”? No other coach, in the 120- year history of the football program at Colorado, has had four…

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