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Missouri – First shutout since 1992

//posted 11.11.1995

November 11th – Boulder #9 Colorado 21, Missouri 0

In one of the latest Homecoming dates in school history, the Buffs played its final home game of 1995 against a struggling 2-7 Missouri squad which was winless in Big Eight play. A crowd of 50,645 endured some wind gusts of up to 60 mph, but generally enjoyed balmy November temperature readings of over 50 degrees, leaving Folsom Field satisfied with a methodical 21-0 win for the home team.

Quarterback John Hessler, who against Oklahoma State had broken the school record for touchdown passes in a season (the old mark being 12, jointly held by Steve Vogel, Darian Hagan, and Kordell Stewart), added touchdown passes #17 and #18 for the year, also chipped in a 36-yard scoring run in the fourth quarter. The much-maligned Buff defense chose to strut its stuff against an overmatched Tiger offense, posting its first shutout since a 28-0 win over Oklahoma State in 1992.

“You all can’t say any more bad things about our defense,” joked junior linebacker Matt Russell to reporters after the game. “We finally eliminated some mistakes. We’d always been playing hard, but when we eliminated our mistakes it turned out to be…

Iowa State – A “lucky” 22-point win

//posted 10.21.1995

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October 21st – @ Iowa State #9 Colorado 50, Iowa State 28

Offer most teams a 22-point win on the road against a conference opponent, and a 50-point total on the scoreboard, and those teams would walk away quite content. Not the Buffs. Against a 2-5 Iowa State team heading nowhere, Colorado fell asleep at the switch, allowing a 27-10 halftime lead become a 28-27 deficit before rallying for the 50-28 win. If ever there was a “lucky” three-touchdown win, this was it.

On a blustery 40-degree day, the Colorado passing offense was grounded. Fortunately, the rushing game responded, picking up a season-high 326 yards. Lendon Henry scored three touchdowns on the afternoon, two in the second quarter to give Colorado a 21-10 lead. When senior safety Donnell Leomiti returned a fumble 75 yards for a score just before half, the wind seemingly had been taken out of the Cyclones sails.

Iowa State was not finished, however. Aided by 20 mph winds in the third quarter, the Cyclones took advantage of a poor Colorado execution. A punt was blocked out of the endzone for a safety, a second punt traveled only 14 yards, and John Hessler threw an interception. …

#3 Texas A&M – “Fightin’ Words” / Detmer Injured

//posted 9.23.1995

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“Fightin’ Words”

The lopsided win over Northeast Louisiana raised the 3-0 Buffs to No. 7 in the nation. The next two opponents, though, would show if Colorado’s rise in the polls was merited.

The Aggies of Texas A&M were coming to Boulder for a top ten showdown, the first of Neuheisel’s coaching career. Undefeated on the young season, A&M featured Heisman-trophy candidates Leeland McElroy at halfback and Corey Pullig at quarterback. In dominating Tulsa, 52-9, the week before the Colorado game, McElroy accounted for 285 yards of total offense and four touchdowns, while Pullig threw three passes for scores.

Rick Neuheisel was not intimidated. “We (the Colorado coaching staff and players) all have a great deal of respect for (Texas A&M)”, said the Buffs’ head coach. “But we feel like we’re right with ‘em and we’re not going to back down to anybody. And if those are fightin’ words, so be it. We’re ready to play Texas A&M.”

September 23rd – Boulder #7 Colorado 29, #3 Texas A&M 21

A Folsom Field record crowd of 53,849 and a national ABC television audience looked on as the Colorado Buffaloes lost their leader in the first quarter, only to have a local boy…

Oklahoma State

//posted 11.5.1994

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November 5th – Boulder #7 Colorado 17, Oklahoma State 3

The main distraction for the Colorado Buffaloes for Homecoming, 1994, was not the Homecoming festivities, nor was it the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Rather, the Buffs greatest concern was lethargy. OSU was 3-4-1 on the year, with its only wins coming in non-conference contests against the likes of Northern Illinois, Tulsa, and North Texas. The glow of the national spotlight was gone, as for the first time in a month, CU’s game would not be shown by a national network.

After opening the game as if the game was of no consequence, the Buffs played just well enough to secure a 17-3 win. Oklahoma State took the opening kickoff and marched 73 yards down the field, taking up almost half of the first quarter before settling for a 24-yard field goal. On OSU’s second series, sophomore safety Steve Rosga intercepted a Tone Jones pass and returned it 25 yards to the Cowboy 30-yard line. Three plays later, Kordell Stewart ran the ball in from 27 yards out to give the Buffs a 7-3 lead. A one-yard touchdown pass from Stewart to freshman receiver Phil Savoy just before half gave the Buffs…

#22 Oklahoma – An Evening in Paradise

//posted 10.15.1994

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October 15th – Boulder #4 Colorado 45, #22 Oklahoma 7

It was now official. What had been dreamed of since the “Miracle in Michigan” could now be spoken of openly. The Rocky Mountain News banner headline after Colorado dismantled Oklahoma 45-7 before a national ESPN audience said it all: “Buffs make a run for No. 1?. Not to be outdone, the Denver Post headline proclaimed: “Taking aim at No. 1?.

Before the Buffs took the field to set about defeating the Sooners by the largest margin in the history of the series, the players and fans all knew that the #1 team in the nation, Florida, had been defeated 36-33 by Auburn. The 45-7 thrashing of the Sooners before a night game crowd of 53,199 proved to the nation that the undefeated Colorado Buffaloes had to be reckoned with on the national stage. CU dominated the game from the outset, and the line score for the first half look like a series of misprints. The Buffs’ first three scores:

Salaam 7 yard run (Voskeritchian kick);

Salaam 7 yard run (Voskeritchian kick); and

Salaam 7 yard run (Voskeritchian kick).

For Colorado’s final score of the first half, the Buffs threw the…

#16 Texas – On Oxygen

//posted 10.1.1994

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No rest for the weary. CU was 3-0, up to #5 in the polls, and the talk of the nation. But the Texas Longhorns, 3-0 and ranked 16th, wanted their own share of the nation’s attention. The Buffs only had seven days to celebrate and recuperate from the “Miracle at Michigan”, and to prepare for the showdown in Austin.

October 1st – @ Texas #5 Colorado 34, #16 Texas 31

Texas was more than anxious to take a crack at the #5 Buffs. Undefeated on the young season, the 16th-ranked Longhorns were 3-0 for the first time since 1985. Playing at home in front of a sell-out crowd of 77,809, Texas players looked to avenge the 36-14 pasting laid on them by the Buffs in 1993 season-opener. Eight returning starters on offense and nine on defense gave Longhorn fans plenty of confidence that the media-drunk Buffs would leave Austin in a different mood than they had Ann Arbor.

But it was Texas and their fans that left the stadium displeased, as for the second week in a row, Colorado scratched out a last-second win against a ranked opponent on the opponent’s home field. Junior place-kicker Neil Voskeritchian booted through a…

Pre-season: 1994 – Adios, Southwest Conference – CU returns 16 starters

//posted 8.1.1994

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Adios, Southwest Conference

Quick – Name the last eight members of the Southwest Conference.

Not so easy, is it?

Entering the 1994 season, the long-anticipated demise of the SWC became official. The 1994 and 1995 campaigns would be the last for the storied conference. After 80 seasons, the Southwest Conference would fold up its tents; its teams left to a new future.

Arkansas, the only Southwest member outside of the state of Texas, had defected to the Southeastern Conference in 1990. Now Texas, Texas A & M, Baylor, and Texas Tech, commencing with the 1996 season, would join the Big Eight to form the Big 12. Southern Methodist, Rice, and Texas Christian, meanwhile, would join the Western Athletic Conference. The Houston Cougars, originally set adrift to fend for itself as an independent, would eventually settle upon an affiliation with Conference USA.

Why would a conference as steeped in history as the SWC fold? Several reasons were proposed: 1) the increased popularity of the NFL in Texas had eroded the state’s college fan base; 2) the widely-held belief that the conference was made up of two teams (Texas and Texas A&M) and a series of woeful second-tier teams; and 3) the…

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Posts Tagged ‘Neil Voskeritchian’

Missouri – First shutout since 1992

Iowa State – A “lucky” 22-point win

#3 Texas A&M – “Fightin’ Words” / Detmer Injured

Oklahoma State

#22 Oklahoma – An Evening in Paradise

#16 Texas – On Oxygen

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