September 2018 – Page 2 – CU At the Game

Colorado Daily – Bye Week

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Chip to host golf tournament to raise money for spirit squad – and a new t-shirt cannon … Mike MacIntyre post-practice talk with media (Fri.) … BuffStampede video featuring Joel Klatt …

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Friday Fast Facts

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CU over 30 points in first three games for the first time in 23 years … Both Oregon schools are home underdogs this weekend … Laviska Shenault in the top ten nationally in three categories …

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September 15th – Colorado 45, New Hampshire 14

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Travon McMillian ran 162 yards and two touchdowns, leading Colorado to a 45-14 victory over New Hampshire. The Buffs led 28-0 at halftime, with a McMillian 75-yard run for a score on the first play of the third quarter, putting to rest any doubt as to the final outcome.

Steven Montez went 14-for-19 for 166 yards, including a 28-yard touchdown pass to Laviska Shenault to open the scoring. In all, the Buffs posted 491 yards of total offense, to 270 for the Wildcats. In the first half, when the Buffs were building a 28-0 lead, the Colorado defense held the New Hampshire offense to 76 yards on 39 offensive plays.

“First of all, New Hampshire played incredibly hard,” said Mike MacIntyre after the game. “What a gorgeous day in Colorado today. It was extremely hot out there (90-degrees at kickoff). I thought our team came out and played hard and physical. We had a couple of mistakes that made the game last a little longer than it should have but I was very pleased with our state of mind and our aggressiveness in the game.”

Sunday Afternoon Quarterback – New Hampshire

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How would you rate CU’s performance against New Hampshire? … With the Pac-12 South going 2-4 this weekend (and the Pac-12 North going 6-0), where would you place CU in the Pac-12 Power Rankings? …

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Meeting – and Exceeding – Expectations

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Incoming UCLA head coach Chip Kelly was asked in July at the Pac-12 Media Day about whether the Bruins would be undergoing a rebuilding year in 2018. The Bruins had finished 6-7 in 2017, and had fired their head coach, Jim Mora.

Kelly response stuck with me. “I don’t think it’s my job to temper or excite the fans,” said Kelly. “My job is to prepare our team as best we can … If there are expectations, that’s a good thing. I’d rather be in a place where there are expectations than in a place where they don’t care”.

Now, you would be hard pressed to find a fan base anywhere in the nation which declared, “We don’t care” (okay, with the possible exception of Kansas – at least until the past two weeks). Fans are passionate, and care deeply about their teams (if you don’t believe me, pause for a second and relive how you felt when Nebraska’s final pass to the end zone went wide on the final play of the game in Lincoln).

And yet … there are levels of passion. There are fan bases which care less about their teams success than do others. Fan bases at Alabama, Ohio State, and yes, Nebraska, are more fervent than the Buff Nation (case in point. Colorado sold 42,360 tickets for game against New Hampshire, but only 29,839 came through the turnstiles … and half of those left at halftime. Imagine that happening in Lincoln?).

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Pac-12 Notes – New Hampshire

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Pac-12 South goes 2-4, leaving CU as the Pac-12 South’s only undefeated team … L.A. schools humbled (Fresno State 38, UCLA 14; Texas 37, USC 14) … Utah falls at home to Washington, 21-7 … Herm Train suffers first defeat …

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Colorado Daily – New Hampshire

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Game Day!! … “New Hampshire is the most important game on our schedule right now, because it’s this week” … CU will try and re-establish its rushing attack against New Hampshire … CU Video’s Nebraska highlights, including CU locker room (Enjoy!!) …

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Friday Fast Facts

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Neill Woelk’s Friday Fast Five … How to catch the game … CU’s history against the FCS … Injury report … Laviska Shenault leads the nation in receptions and receiving yards … Utah leads the nation in total defense …

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CU v. New Hampshire – “T.I.P.S.” for Buffs’ Home Opener

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After two emotional rivalry games, the Buffs could be forgiven for not getting up for an FCS opponent, but will the out-manned Wildcats of New Hampshire be able to put up a fight against the resurgent Buffs? …

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September 8th – Colorado 33, Nebraska 28

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Steven Montez hit Laviska Shenault for a 40-yard touchdown with 1:06 to play, giving Colorado a 33-28 come-from-behind win over Nebraska in Lincoln. Montez went 33-for-50 passing, going for 351 yards and three touchdowns. Shenault collected ten of those passes for 177 yards and a touchdown … also scoring on a three-yard run in the first quarter.

The game went back and forth all afternoon. The Buffs raced out to an early 14-0 lead, only to watch the Cornhuskers dominate play for the remainder of the first half. Nebraska led 21-17 at the break, having posted 243 yards rushing to CU’s nine. The Buffs steadied themselves in the second half, overcoming two missed field goals before securing the winning points in the final minute of play.

Nebraska had 565 yards of total offense against the Colorado defense, with freshman quarterback Adrian Martinez completing 15-of-20 passes for 187 yards and a touchdown (one interception), while also leading the Cornhuskers in rushing (15 carries for 117 yards and two touchdowns). For the Buffs, other than the Montez-to-Shenault combo, there was little offensive production (395 total yards of total offense). Kyle Evans and Travon McMillian each had 25 yards rushing, while no Buff other than Shenault was over 50 yards receiving (though Jay MacIntyre had eight catches for 45 yards and two touchdowns.

“We have to beat them. It’s the only thing they understand”

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The Colorado/Nebraska rivalry means something different to every Buff coach, player, and fan.

For the players, most of whom were in elementary school the last time the Buffs and Cornhuskers played, having Nebraska on the schedule didn’t carry with it a great deal of extra meaning.

“A lot of the guys on the team know about the history. They have been playing all of the highlights and the clips around the Champions Center this whole week now”, said quarterback Steven Montez before the game. “To us, we just treat it like another game. They are just another team wearing a different color than us. We have to go in and do what we do best, play our game, and hopefully it will work out for us in the end.”

Added running back Travon McMillian, himself just a Buff for one game before the showdown in Lincoln, “We don’t know much about it because it has been so long since Colorado and Nebraska have played, but we are taking this game really seriously. We are preparing as hard as we can in practice so when we go out there we can execute to the best of our ability.”

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