Colorado-Oregon Notes

QUICKLY The series is now tied at 8-8 (CU leads 4-3 in Boulder, where UO has won the last two) ... Colorado is now 61-31-5 in 97 Homecoming games in its history and is 12-5 at home since mid-1984 when losing by 20 or more points the previous week on the road (CU fell 52-24 at Washington last Saturday) ... Colorado's last three games have all taken under 3 hours to play (2:53, 2:53, 2:58) ... The 43-point loss was CU's worst at home since a 55-10 setback to Missouri in 2007; it was the largest overall since a 52-7 loss at Cal lasty September ... Oregon's 293 yards in the first quarter was the second most ever against CU in a single quarter; Oklahoma had 312 in the third quarter On Oct. 4, 1980 ... Oregon gained 527 total yards; that's three straight games CU has allowed 500 or more, the first time that has occurred since the 1983 season ... CU has also allowed over 30 points in five straight games for the first time since doing so six in a row in 2003 ... Oregon's 371 rushing yards were the most against the Buffs since Iowa State had 377 in Ames on Nov. 20, 1993 ... CU ran more plays than the opponent for just the third time this year and the 72 were the second most to 82 against Cal ... Kenyon Barner's 84-yard touchdown run tied for the third longest rushing play ever against Colorado (and the seventh from scrimmage); the longest run ever against CU was by Kansas' Walter Mack (90 yards) in Boulder on Nov. 15, 1980.

45-2 Terrel Smith's tackle for a safety averted the first home shutout for CU since Nov. 15, 1986 (a 28-0 loss to Oklahoma); the last time the Buffs did not score at least one touchdown at home was on Sept. 16, 2006 (a 21-3 loss to Arizona State); the last time the offense did not score at Folsom was on Oct. 30, 2004 (a 31-7 loss to Texas; CU's touchdown was on an interception return by Terrence Wheatley); the last time CU's only points in a game came on a safety was on Nov. 14, 1914 in a 6-2 loss to Colorado Mines in Denver (the only other game in CU's 1,157-game history its only points came via a safety).

INDIVIDUAL LINER NOTES
TB Tony Jones had career highs in carries (19) and yards (71).
FB Evan Harrington had his first career rush, picking up a first down on a 3rd-&-1.
CB Jonathan Hawkins made his second career start; his other came against Texas Tech last year at nickel back.
P Darragh O'Neill had a career high 12 punts (CU record is 14), with his five kicks inside-the-20 tying the school record, first set by Mitch Berger against Texas in Boulder on Sept. 5, 1983.
OT/TE Alexander Lewis saw action at both his positions in today's game.
Sophomore TE Alex Wood saw action his first game action as a Buff (and caught his first career pass).
FS Ray Polk and CB Jason Espinoza were not cleared to participate today due to lingering effects from concussions.

FIRST TIME STARTERS Two players made their first career starts today: S Kyle Washington and DB D.D. Goodson (who started at nickel); that's now 18 players making their first career starts for CU this season.
In eight games at the four standard defensive back positions (CB/FS/SS/CB), Colorado has now started nine different players; six started at those four spots in both 2009 and 2010 (eight different players combined).

MORE TRUE FRESHMENColorado has now played 15 true freshmen in 2011 with TB Malcolm Creer and DB D.D. Goodson seeing the field today for the time. That ties the Buffs with Tennessee for the fifth-most true frosh to play this year:

Texas	18	Colorado	15
Auburn	17	Tennessee	15
Army	16	Florida State	14
Indiana	16	Ohio State	14

A note on Goodson: he "auditioned" for the defense for four snaps in 7-on-7 drills in Tuesday's practice, and then moved there full time Wednesday; so he had all of two full practices after being on offense (TB) the entire fall.

COLORADO INJURIESMore to add to the list (13 players missed today's game altogether with maladies):

SS Anthony Perkins (sprained ankle)
DB D.D. Goodson (concussion)
QB Tyler Hansen (concussion)

Oregon Postgame Notebook Game 7 at Colorado

Oregon's 43-point margin of victory was its biggest in a road game since defeating Washington State by 49 (63-14) on Sept. 27, 2008.
JR RB Kenjon Barner eclipsed 100 yards rushing (115) for the second straight week and fourth time in his career.
Barner's career-best 84-yard touchdown run was the eighth-longest rush in Oregon history and third-longest by a CU opponent.
Oregon's 29 points in the first quarter was the most by the Ducks in a quarter since putting up 31 in the second quarter vs. New Mexico on Sept. 4, 2010.
JR P Jackson Rice tied his career long with a 61-yard punt in the second quarter.
SO K Alejandro Maldonado had a string of 38 consecutive 1-PT PATs end after a miss on UO's fifth touchdown of the day.
JR LB Michael Clay's second career interception resulted in his first career touchdown on a 13-yard return.
Oregon has won 16 straight conference games, including the last eight on the road, dating to a 2009 loss at Stanford.
With a career-high two sacks in the game, SR LB Josh Kaddu has now recorded at least one sack in three of four Pac-12 games this season. Kaddu also had career bests of 10 tackles (all solo) and 3.0 tackles for loss.
FR RB/WR De'Anthony Thomas scored his ninth touchdown of the season and is now one shy of Derek Lovile's record of 10 by a true freshman set in 1986.
The Ducks had five players rush for 50 yards or more.
FR LB Anthony Wallace made his collegiate debut, bringing the total number of true freshmen to see action for the Ducks this season to seven.
FR QB Bryan Bennett and FR CB Troy Hill made the first starts of their respective careers.
JR QB Darron Thomas saw his streak of 19 consecutive starts come to an end.
The Ducks improved to 26-1 when scoring 30 or more points in Chip Kelly's tenure as head coach.
UO held a conference opponent without an offensive score for the first time since a 35-0 shutout of Stanford in 2003.
Oregon now has 16 sacks in four conference games after recording only four in its three non-conference games.
FR RB Tra Carson scored his first career touchdown on a 1-yard run in the third quarter.
SO DE Ryan Hagen had the first sack of his career.

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