Spring / Summer – 2026

Game Ten Preview: CU may need Friday the 13th luck to beat Houston … CU has the 5th “oldest” Power Four conference team … Game Nine Preview: Is Arizona State a contender or a pretender? …

CU goes 5-0 in Game Nines … 1986: A 17-10 win over Kansas … 1991: No. 14 Buffs defeat Oklahoma State on a fake field goal (with video) … 1996: No. 7 CU out-scores Iowa State and Troy Davis, 49-42 … 2001: No. 25 CU 38, Missouri 24 … 2016: No. 21 CU tops UCLA, 21-10, with Isaiah Oliver punt returns (with video) …

The Athletic: Ten of Big 12’s 16 teams (including Colorado) considered “Football” schools … Coaches Hot Seat Rankings – Coach Prime third-highest ranking in the Big 12 … Week One Big 12 Lines: CU and Baylor only underdogs …

DL Ezra Christensen files a lawsuit to gain eligibility for 2026 season … OC Brennan Marion: “Offensive line-wise, we’re better than we were at Texas. We’re bigger. We’re more physical” … Georgia Tech to wear white for season opener against Colorado … Brian Howell leaving the Daily Camera …

The Buffs get one “gimme” game (v. Weber State), but the rest of the schedule is against the Power Four, with six of the remaining 11 games on the road … What is the easiest path to six wins and bowl eligibility? … Let’s find out …

1986: A big second half lifts Buffs over Oklahoma State … **1991: CU’s “Ice Bowl” 19-19 tie with Nebraska** … 1996: Detmer & Carruth set records in rout of Missouri … 2001: Buffs use 33-yard two-point conversion to beat Oklahoma State …

Bill McCartney’s Buffs went from 1-10 to 7-5 after installing a new offense … Gary Barnett’s team went from 3-8 to 10-3 by leaning on the running game … Mike MacIntyre’s Buffs went from 4-9 to 10-4 relying on seniors … Coach Prime in Year Four? …

**My All-Time Favorite CU Game** – 1986: CU 20, No. 3 Nebraska 10 … 1991: A 10-0 win over an improved K-State … 1996: John Hessler to the rescue in 28-24 win over Texas … 2001: Phillip Lindsay goes for 219 yards and three scores in 40-16 win over Arizona State …

Ten years ago, CU was coming off of a string of ten straight losing seasons, with Mike MacIntyre entering his fourth campaign with a 10-27, 2-25 record … So what was there to write about ten years ago to bring hope to the Buff Nation? … Read on …

1986: Win over Iowa State sets up showdown with Nebraska … 1991: Buffs use two 99-yard drives to upset No. 12 Oklahoma … 2001: “This One’s For Fred” – Buffs take out No. 25 Texas A&M … 2016: Buffs’ momentum doesn’t carry over to game against USC …

The timeframe from an absurd Texas District Court ruling to the Big 12 shutting down (and shutting up) Texas Tech took only a week … But in that tumultuous week, there were some definite winners – and definite losers …

1986 and 1991 – two satisfying Big Eight wins over rival Missouri … 1996: A 105-yard interception returns sparks No. 9 CU to 35-13 win over Oklahoma State … 2001: Defense shines in 16-6 upset of No. 12 Kansas State … 2016: No post-Oregon let down as Buffs rout Oregon State, 47-6 …

A judge in Texas ignored the law and common sense in allowing Brendan Sorsby to play … The Seventh Circuit has kicked the can down the road, leaving it up to the Big 12 … Can college football count on the Big 12 to right the wrong? … Let’s find out …

Tough losses to No. 10 Arizona (1986) and Stanford (1991) offset by a huge win over Texas A&M in CU’s first-ever Big 12 game (1996) and a game for the ages, with Ahkello Witherspoon’s last-minute interception taking down Oregon (2016) …

Colorado hikers track how many 14,000-foot peaks they have climbed, but for our purposes, “Fourteener” takes on a different meaning … How does CU stack up against other Power Four schools ranked near the bottom of their conferences? …

Big Ten time … Two tough losses to Michigan (1996; 2016), and a close loss in the Horseshoe to Ohio State (1986) offset by a rout of Minnesota (1991) …

Tough close losses to Oregon (1986) and to No. 23 Baylor (1991) offset by a pair of Rocky Mountain Showdown routs of Colorado State in 1996 and 2001 (when the Rams were ranked) and a domination of Idaho State in 2016 …

The Buff Nation recently lost Adam Munsterteiger, publisher and editor for BuffStampede.com … Here are stories of Adam … and Dave … and Neill … and their profound impact on CU at the Game …

We live in a world in which even the Big Ten (with three straight national champions) has unhappy members … Iowa State’s athletic director, in frustration, called for the Little Two to break away from the Big Two … It may happen sooner rather than later ..

We are now under 100 days to the start of the 2026 season … For fun this summer, we’ll be taking a pleasant stroll through the CU at the Game Archives, with stories from games of 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2016 … Here are Game Ones … Enjoy! …

The 1990s represented one of the best decades in program history – Stories from ’90 Nebraska and Notre Dame games, plus stories from ’94 Michigan and ’94 Iowa State … The 2010s? Not so much – Highlights from ’16 Oregon and ’16 Utah games …

Let’s take a few moments to watch some highlights of some of the best CU games of the 1980s (’86 v. Nebraska; ’89 v. Nebraska), the 2000s (’01 v. Nebraska; ’07 v. Oklahoma) and the 2020s (’23 v. TCU; ’24 v. Baylor) …

The Big 12 has entered into a five-year partnership with Redbird, which contains as one of its elements an offer of a $30 million loan to Big 12 members … Should CU partake in what some call a “payday loan”? … Can CU afford not to? …

This weekend, Jordyn Tyson and Colton Hood joined the Club of former Buffs selected in the NFL Draft (as players from other schools) … With the transient nature of collegiate athletics, who in 20 years will still consider themselves “Forever Buffs”? …

Shut out of the Draft, former Buffs hit the Undrafted Free Agent market … Six Big 12 players – including former Buff Jordyn Tyson – taken in the first round of the NFL Draft … Longest Active Droughts without an NFL First Round pick …