Time & TV Announced For Football Game At Air Force

BOULDER — The times for the first three weeks of the 2022 college football season were rolled out Wednesday morning, with the television and kickoff set for the University of Colorado's trip down Interstate 25 to face the Air Force Academy at Falcon Stadium among them.

The Buffaloes and Falcons will play Saturday, Sept. 10 at 1:30 p.m. in a nationally televised game on CBS, CU's first appearance on the network since defeating Oregon on New Year's Day in the 1996 Cotton Bowl. Colorado is 4-1 on CBS, including two iconic wins in the 1989 season over Illinois and Nebraska and in '90 over Oklahoma.

The two last played on the AFA campus on Oct. 5, 1974, with CU escaping with a 28-27 victory. Colorado leads the all-time series by a 12-5 count, with eight of the games being decided by 10 points or less. The series has had many interesting twists, from AFA winning the first encounter at the end of the 1958 season that led to a change in CU head coaches; the '62 game where CU defeated a heavily favored Falcon team to send coach Bud Davis out with a win; a postponement for two weeks in 1963 after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; and a 49-19 CU win at the Academy in 1970 when the Falcons were ranked 10th in the nation having already accepted a bid to the Sugar Bowl.

Colorado leads the series in Colorado Springs by a 5-1 edge; the last (and only other) service academy CU played on the road was Army, when the Buffs traveled to West Point and won, 31-0, on Oct. 1, 1977. The home-and-home series was scheduled in 2015, and was resumed in 2019 in Boulder after a 45-year dormancy; CU rallied from being down 23-10 to tie the game and send it into overtime, where Air Force prevailed, 30-23. No future games between the two are currently scheduled.

Game times for CU's Sept. 2 opener at home against TCU, the road game at Minnesota in week three and a Friday night away affair at Southern California on Nov. 11 will be released Thursday morning in a joint announcement by FOX and ESPN.

THE LAST TIME IN COLORADO SPRINGS
Since the last meeting on Oct. 8, 1974, 48 years will have passed; here's are some fast facts of that moment in time:

The No. 1 song in the nation that week was I Honestly Love You by Olivia Newton-John (the top song of the year was The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand);
38 Special, The Ramones, Cheap Trick, Blondie and Boulder's own Firefall all debuted in the music world, while The Moody Blues and Jefferson Airplane disbanded, though the Blues returned in 1977;
All In The Family aired that night as the No. 1 show on television, a position it would finish in for the year;
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Taking of Pelham 123 were the top movies of the week, but for the year, The Godfather II ruled the roost but was still two months away from premiering in theatres;
Book: Jaws, by Peter Benchle, topped the best seller lists that week;
Gerald Ford was just two days away from completing his second month as U.S. President, as Richard Nixon resigned on August 8; Ford of course would spent many days after his tenure as POTUS in Colorado (Vail);
Countries with different names now included Burma, Czechoslovakia, Rhodesia, Southwest Africa, Yugoslavia and Zaire.

And on the Colorado professional and NCAA landscapes:

The Denver Broncos, coming off their best record in its 14-year franchise history (7-5-2 in 1973), sat at 0-2-1 on the year but would win their first game the next day (17-14 at Kansas City);
The Denver Nuggets were still in the old American Basketball Association (ABA), and were ready to embark on their first season with the new nickname; having previously been called the Rockets the previous seven seasons – the team opened 35-5 en route to a 65-19 record for 1974-75, but lost in the second round of the playoffs to Indiana.
Major League Baseball was 19 years away from Denver; the AAA Denver Bears finished 62-74 (last place in the American Association West Division) and were ending a two-year association with the Houston Astros;
Hockey? Colorado was still two years away from its first NHL franchise—the Colorado Rockies—but the Denver Spurs were still around, finished second in the Northern Division of the Central Hockey League (36-29-13, 85 points).
Remember the Denver Racquets in the World Team Tennis? Pacific Section champions with a 30-14 record, they won the league's inaugural title in 1974, defeating the Philadelphia Freedoms, 2 matches to 0 (55-48 overall).
And in soccer, the Denver Dynamos finished 5-15 in their first season in the North American Soccer League; the team would compete at Mile High Stadium for one more season before moving to Minnesota (and becoming the Kicks).
1974-75 champions: Oakland (MLB/World Series), Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL/Super Bowl), Golden State Warriors (NBA), Kentucky Colonels (ABA), Philadelphia Flyers (NHL), Los Angeles Aztecs (NASL), Denver Racquets (WTT), Colorado (NCAA skiing), Oklahoma & Alabama (NCAA football), UCLA Bruins (NCAA basketball), Immaculata (AIAW basketball).

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