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No. 24 Baylor – Buffs cruise past Bears in 45-21 laugher

//posted 9.11.1993

September 11th – Boulder #10 Colorado 45, #24 Baylor 21

Just like that, the would-be questionable Colorado Buffaloes looked like world-beaters.

After forcing six turnovers against Texas, the Buffs’ defense forced three first-half fumbles against Baylor, helping the Buffs cruise to a 21-0 first quarter lead. By half, it was a 35-0 laugher as Colorado went on to crush 24th-ranked Baylor, 45-21.

“Our defense is like a time bomb”, said wide receiver Michael Westbrook. “When we (the offense) get to the sidelines anymore, we don’t take our helmets off. We know we are going to go right back in.”

The first few series of the game gave evidence of the truth of Westbrook’s comments. On Baylor’s first possession of the game, senior cornerback Dennis Collier recovered a fumbled pitch by Bear quarterback J.J. Joe. Nine plays and 45 yards later, Lamont Warren scored from a yard out to put Colorado on top to stay, 7-0. After the Buffs’ defense forced a punt, the offense went 80 yards on just two plays, culminating in a 69-yard bomb from Stewart to Charles E. Johnson.

On Baylor’s very next offensive play, the Bears fumbled again. This time the ball was recovered by senior…

Texas – No. 11 Colorado Opens with a Thumping of the Longhorns

//posted 9.4.1993

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September 4th – Boulder #11 Colorado 36, Texas 14

In 1989, the Colorado Buffaloes opened their memorable 11-0 regular season with a 27-6 thrashing of the Texas Longhorns.

After a convincing 36-14 win over Texas to kickoff the 1993 campaign, the Buff fans could realistically hope that history would repeat itself.

A national ESPN television audience and a sell-out crowd of 52,125 looked on as Kordell Stewart threw for 246 yards and three touchdown passes to lead the Buffs. Stewart opened the scoring with a 35-yard touchdown pass late in the first quarter to Charles E. Johnson to cap a six-play, 66-yard drive. The lead was up to 14-0 after Stewart hit Michael Westbrook from 16 yards out early in the second quarter. Phil Brown’s eight-yard scoring run for the Longhorns a few series later cut the Colorado lead to 14-7, but in the last minute of the half, Stewart connected on his third touchdown pass of the game, a seven-yarder to tight end Christian Fauria, with just 15 seconds left before the break.

Any thoughts of a Longhorn comeback were erased in the third quarter when cornerback Chris Hudson returned a Shea Morenz pass 21 yards for a touchdown, giving the…

#6 Syracuse – Fiesta Bowl – Lost luggage, lost jacket, lost holiday

//posted 1.1.1993

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Colorado v. Syracuse – Fiesta Bowl – January 1, 1993

Lost Luggage, Lost Jacket, Lost Holiday

I had never been to Phoenix before. In fact, unless you count stepping across the state line at the Four Corners area which represents the intersection of the borders of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, I had never been to Arizona before. Coming at the end of December, a trip to the Fiesta Bowl to cap off the 1992 season seemed like a great idea.

My trip got off to a bad start when my luggage failed to meet me at the Phoenix airport. Fortunately, my hosts for my first evening in Phoenix, Kyle and Kim, were more than hospitable in taking care of my needs until the next day when my wayward luggage decided to complete its journey.

(Author’s Note: Allow me to digress. Kyle and Kim were floormates of mine from my freshman year in Libby Hall. In fact, Kyle was the first person I met in Boulder. I was carrying up some boxes to my dorm room my first day in town when Kyle strolled down the hallway, stuck out his large hand, and, in a voice which was…

Iowa State – School records set by Stewart, Detmer, Westbrook, and Johnson

//posted 11.21.1992

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November 21st – Boulder #11 Colorado 31, Iowa State 10

Kordell Stewart threw for three touchdowns and 279 yards as the Buffs raced out to a 28-3 halftime lead before cruising to a 31-10 win over Iowa State.

The Buffs put the Cyclones on notice early that Colorado would not fall victim to the complacency which had cost the Cornhuskers. Linebacker Chad Brown recovered a fumble by Iowa State fullback Chris Ulrich on the Cyclones’ first possession. On the very next play from scrimmage, Stewart connected with fullback James Hill on a 19-yard score, and Colorado was ahead to stay, 7-0.

After Iowa State cut the Buffs’ lead to 7-3, the Buffs scored three touchdowns over a nine-minute span in the second quarter to make the second half irrelevant. First Stewart hit Michael Westbrook for 24 yards and a 14-3 lead. Next, Stewart connected with tight end Christian Fauria from one-yard out and a 21-3 advantage. Finally, Lamont Warren took it in from three yards to finish off a nine-play, 82-yard drive, and the Buffs were dominating, 28-3.

Stewart’s 279 passing yards gave him 2,109 for the year, the first time in Colorado history a Buff quarterback had surpassed the 2,000-yard…

Oklahoma State – Buff defense posts second shutout of the season

//posted 11.7.1992

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November 7th – Boulder #16 Colorado 28, Oklahoma State 0

Oklahoma State was a much improved team in 1992. Rebounding from a disastrous 0-10-1 1991 campaign, the Cowboys were a respectable 4-4 coming into Boulder, including conference wins over Missouri and Iowa State. But the Cowboys were the Buffs’ Homecoming opponent for a reason.

In 1992, Oklahoma State played its role of sacrificial lamb well, succumbing to the Buffs. 28-0.

Colorado posted a touchdown in each quarter, the first coming on a Lamont Warren two-yard run to cap a 12-play drive on the Buffs’ first possession. Warren scored again in the second stanza as the Buffs provided the Homecoming crowd of 51,559 a 14-0 halftime cushion. With a two-score lead, the Buffs were never again threatened. The dominating Buff defense posted its second shutout of the season, forcing a school-record eight turnovers.

In the third quarter, the Buffs’ touchdown was set up by a fumble recovery by Leonard Renfro deep in Cowboy territory. Quarterback Kordell Stewart, returning to the starting lineup after sitting out with a broken wrist, connected with Michael Westbrook on a record-setting score of nine yards to conclude the one play drive.

The touchdown was Westbrook’s 12th career…

Oklahoma – Koy Detmer’s first career start a record-setter

//posted 10.17.1992

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October 17th – Boulder #7 Colorado 24, Oklahoma 24

In 1952, the Colorado Buffaloes tied mighty Oklahoma 21-21 to mar an otherwise perfect conference run of the Bud Wilkinson Sooners of 1948-57 (a 57-0-1 streak).

Forty years later, the Buffs salvaged a 24-24 tie against a 3-2 Sooner squad led by 4th-year head coach Gary Gibbs. Colorado managed to pull out the tie only by scoring 10 points in the final 4:27 of the game.

Freshman quarterback Koy Detmer, making his debut as a starter, made quite an impression, re-writing several pages of the Colorado record book. Detmer eclipsed the single game record for passing completions and yardage in completing 33-of-50 passes for a school best 418 yards. Included in the 418 yards was a school record 92-yard touchdown pass to Charles E. Johnson.

But not all of the records were positive. Included in Detmer’s efforts were five interceptions (tying a record set by Jeff Austin against Texas Tech in 1976).

For every good play made by the freshman quarterback, there was a poor one to offset it. Oklahoma scored the first points of the game less than two minutes into the contest when a Detmer fumble was returned…

Iowa – Detmer; Defense help Buffs overcome six turnovers

//posted 9.26.1992

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September 26th – Boulder #10 Colorado 28, Iowa 12

Surviving the Minnesota game allowed Colorado to return to the top ten in the polls for the first time since finishing ranked No. 1 at the end of the 1990 season. Colorado’s final non-conference opponent for the 1992 season was the Iowa Hawkeyes in Boulder. The Hawkeyes had begun the year ranked 16th in the nation, but had fallen out of the polls after succumbing to North Carolina State and co-defending National Champion Miami before rebounding against Iowa State. Iowa came to Boulder 1-2, off of a bye week and in search of the consistency that had resulted in a 10-1-1 record in 1991.

For the second week, it was the Buffs’ defense which carried the day. Despite allowing the Hawkeyes to hold the ball for 36:57 of the contest, Colorado’s defense allowed only 229 yards of total offense. Hawkeye quarterbacks were sacked by the Buffs nine times on the day, as Buff outside linebackers Chad Brown and Ron Woolfork teamed up for seven sacks and 73 total yards in losses.

Two early series set the tone for the game.

On the game’s first play from scrimmage, Iowa quarterback Jim Hartlieb hit Harold…

Baylor – Buffs exact revenge for 1991 upset with 57-38 romp

//posted 9.12.1992

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September 12th – @ Baylor #12 Colorado 57, Baylor 38

Heading off to Waco for the second game of the 1992 season, there was no chance Colorado was going to take the Baylor Bears lightly.

Baylor had defeated the Buffs 16-14 at Folsom Field in 1991, led by quarterback J.J. Joe’s 301 yards of total offense.

Traveling to Waco for only the third time in school history, Colorado exacted a measure of revenge for the 1991 upset in routing the Bears, 57-38. Kordell Stewart, who completed 16-of-17 passes for 251 yards before yielding to an ankle injury, again placed his name in the record books. Stewart completed his first nine passing attempts of the game against the Bears. These nine completions, when combined with the final three straight completions of the Colorado State game, gave the sophomore quarterback a school-record 12 straight completions.

While the final score was impressive, the Buffs would have been just as content to leave Texas after the first 29 minutes of the game. With just over a minute to go in the first half, the Buffs were up by a lopsided score of 33-3. After spotting the Bears an opening 33-yard field goal to…

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Posts Tagged ‘Lamont Warren’

No. 24 Baylor – Buffs cruise past Bears in 45-21 laugher

Texas – No. 11 Colorado Opens with a Thumping of the Longhorns

#6 Syracuse – Fiesta Bowl – Lost luggage, lost jacket, lost holiday

Iowa State – School records set by Stewart, Detmer, Westbrook, and Johnson

Oklahoma State – Buff defense posts second shutout of the season

Oklahoma – Koy Detmer’s first career start a record-setter

Iowa – Detmer; Defense help Buffs overcome six turnovers

Baylor – Buffs exact revenge for 1991 upset with 57-38 romp

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