Well, at least it wasn’t 70-3.

In 2005, the last time Colorado played for a conference championship, the Buffs traveled to Houston to take on No. 2 Texas. The result was a 70-3 annihilation by Vince Young and the Longhorns, in what proved to be Gary Barnett’s last game as head coach at Colorado.

The 2005 title game loss helped to hurl the program into a ten-year abyss of horrible seasons, with the Buffs emerging just this fall to reclaim their place on the national stage.

So, will the 41-10 defeat at the hands of No. 4 Washington in the Pac-12 championship game similarly sentence the CU program to another horrific decade?

Hardly.

Four of Five ESPN Pac-12 writers take Washington … Five Buffs make All-Pac-12 academic team … Woelk: CU should have had more first-team honorees

Can CU replicate USC’s blueprint for beating Washington? … The Rise – Episode 5 (Enjoy!!) … Drew Litton … Multiple CU stories … Neill Woelk’s Five Keys

Buffs are seven-point underdogs to No. 4 Washington … Your championship game “T.I.P.S.” …