by Mike Babcock | Nov 5, 2020 | Football
Sixty-two Colorado football fans were ejected from Folsom Field for throwing snowballs during the Nebraska game the day before Halloween in 1993. Nearly a foot of snow had fallen the previous morning. When Colorado sports information director Dave Plati announced the...
by Mike Babcock | Apr 30, 2020 | Football
Rewind to Derek Brown’s comment following the second game of the 1991 season, against Colorado State: “People think we get on TV in big games and lose.” That’s what had happened the next week. The No. 9 Huskers had been unable to hold a...
by Mike Babcock | Apr 2, 2020 | Football
Tom Osborne hadn’t committed to a starting quarterback for the 1991 Colorado State game following Nebraska’s season-opening 59-28 victory against Utah State. Would it be Mickey Joseph, who had started the opener? Or Keithen McCant, who had come off the...
by Mike Babcock | Jan 23, 2020 | Football
The background music might’ve been “Truckin’” by the Grateful Dead. But first, consider the following: Colorado quarterback Darian Hagan was 0-for-5 passing with an interception in the first half against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium in early...
by Mike Babcock | Dec 12, 2019 | Football
Steven Spielberg couldn’t have written a better script for the Nebraska-Colorado game in 1989, at least for the ending. That’s how Buffalo linebacker Michael Jones described it. Aptly, perhaps. You be the judge. With 3:31 remaining and Colorado...
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