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Indiana – First home game / Sports Illustrated & Chuck Fairbanks’ desk

//posted 9.27.1980

September 27th – Boulder Indiana 49, Colorado 7

Fresh off the near comeback at Baton Rouge, there was at least some cause for hope against visiting Indiana. After all, the Buffs had beaten the Hoosiers the previous year in Bloomington, 17-16. In the 1979 game, Colorado had given Chuck Fairbanks his first win as the Buffs’ head coach. On that day, an 0-3 CU squad had beaten a 3-0 Indiana team, and had done so on the road. With that backdrop of cautious optimism, a crowd of 40,219 came to Folsom Field to see if the Buffs could again achieve its first win of the season against the visiting Hoosiers.

Can statistics be misleading? How’s this: against the visiting Hoosiers, the Buffs set a school record for time of possession. For the game, CU held the ball for 42:17 of the game clock to 17:43 for Indiana. That sounds good, at least until the remaining game statistics are considered. In the most important statistic, the final score, Indiana rolled, 49-7. At halftime, the score was 35-0. Unlike the LSU game, though, this week there would be no comeback by the Buffs.

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