u Game Time. The 8:10 p.m. kickoff was the latest in Folsom Field history, topping the 8:07 kickoff for the 1996 Colorado-Oklahoma State game. That game ended took 3:19 and ended at 11:26; tonight's took 3:17 and ended at 11:27, making it the latest ending game in stadium history.
u Gary Barnett is over .500 for the first time in his Division I-A coaching history; tonight's win improves him to 79-78-1 (44-33 at Colorado; he started 8-24-1 in his first three years at Northwestern and is 71-54 since.
u The 39-0 shutout was the first recorded by Colorado since a 34-0 win over Baylor in Boulder on Oct. 19, 2002 (a span of 33 games).
u In contrast, Colorado has now scored in 199 consecutive games, setting the stage to go for No. 200 at Miami in two weeks. Only 11 teams in college football history have ever reached 200 in a row in Division I-A play.
u First Action. True freshman that saw action for Colorado tonight include CB Gardner McKay, S Ben Burney and DT George Hypolite. ILB Maurice Cantrell and WR Chase McBride also saw his first action (on special teams).
u Colorado had 14 first downs in the third quarter, a school record for the most in a single quarter; the old best was 13 on two occasions: at Arizona on Oct. 11, 1958 (fourth quarter) at Kansas on Nov. 13, 1993 (third quarter).
u QB Joel Klatt. He joined Kordell Stewart (6,481) and Koy Detmer (5,390) as the only players in Colorado history to top the 5,000-yard mark in career passing yardage. He came into the game with 4,962 yards and hit the milestone with a 9-yard completion to Evan Judge late in the first quarter. In finishing with 186 yards for the game, he has 5,148 for his career.
--His 10th pass completion of the game, on a screen pass to Hugh Charles late in the second quarter, made him the all-time leader in pass completions at Colorado, as he came in with 447 and pass Kordell Stewart (456) into first place. He ended the game with 18 for 465 for his career.
u PK Mason Crosby. His school record string of 10 consecutive field goals came to an end in the first quarter with the miss (wide left) from 55 yards. However, with makes from 33 and 28 yards, he has now made at least one field goal in six consecutive games, just two off the school record of eight by Fred Lima (set between Oct. 7, 1972 and Sept. 15, 1973).
u TE Quinn Sypniewski. The sixth-year senior (CU's first in modern times) caught his first career touchdown pass with the 11-yard grab from Joel Klatt on the opening drive of the second quarter. Those were not his first career points, as he had a key 2-point conversion catch at Missouri in 2002 (it gave CU a 7-point edge late in the game; CU won in overtime).
u TB Hugh Charles. In his second start, he went over the 100-yard mark for the second straight time; he had 101 last week against Colorado State and 105 tonight. The last player to open a season with a pair of 100-yard games back-to-back was Marcus Houston, who had 100 against Colorado State in Denver and 150 at Southern California in 2000.
u PK Kevin Eberhart. He made his first career field goal?23 yards?late in the game in his first action since 2003; he was 1-1 on PAT kicks and 0-2 on field goals that season.
u Other First Career Stuff?Interceptions: S Ben Burney, Lionel Harris. Reception: FB Brendan Schaub.
u The 5 rushing yards by New Mexico State tied for the seventh lowest by an opponent in Colorado history. The list of CU's top 10 defensive efforts against the run:
Wichita State -40 1975
Colorado State -24 1952
Kansas State -24 1992
At Kansas State -19 1965
Oklahoma -11 1999
At Iowa State 3 1969
Washington State 5 1996
New Mexico State 5 2005
At Kansas 14 1954
At Kansas State 15 1951
