Buff Nation –
There is a saying in football that you are who your record says you are. For the Buffs sitting at 2-6, that’s not good news.
Yet, it is also a program’s history both good and bad which makes up the fabric of a team. For the Buffs, National Championship in 1990, CU’s 62-36 victory over #1 NE in ’01, and even, CU’s victory at Oregon in ’16 point to a tradition steeped in strength and honor.
Tomorrow, under the lights of Folsom Field at 5PM, our CU Buffs take on the Oregon State Beavers. With the good, comes the bad, and if there was ever a game from CU’s past which has accelerated this program down a path of heartache and tears, it is the tragic loss to the Beavers the last time OSU came to Boulder.
On that fateful day on October 27, 2018, CU hit rock bottom and found a way to lose a game in which they were dominating 31-3 in the second half, eventually losing 41-34 in OT. Football is a game of inches and a literal inch on multiple occasions would have changed the outcome. Win, and CU gains bowl eligibility. Instead, coaches got fired, coaches got hired, coaches turned trench coat, and replacement coaches were ushered in right under the Covid wire, all adding fuel to the dumpster fire which is the current condition of the CU Football program.
The team and staff that takes the field tomorrow, continue to carry the burden of that loss. They better because Buff Nation certainly does. A win against the heavily favored Beavers tomorrow would go a long way to dosing those flames of pain and suffering and provide some much-needed oxygen into this proud CU program.
It is time for CU to win a game they are not supposed to win, just like they lost a game they were not supposed to lose last time OSU was in town.
Go Buffs!
Doug