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Sep 12 (Fri)

5:30 PM

Players who carried out CU’s symbolic instruments today:
Sledgehammer: Mustafa Johnson
Toolbox: Tony Brown
United States Flag: Josh Kaiser
Colorado Flag: Nico Magri

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TV Replays (MST): Tuesday: 1:30 a.m. on ESPN2; 7:30 p.m. on ESPNU. Several others condensed on Pac-12 Football in 60.

Colorado won the coin toss for the fifth straight game (7-3) this season … Buffaloes are now 1-2 when donning the “Raiders” look of silver helmet/black jerseys/silver pants (1-1 vs. Washington State) ... Washington State has now won two in a row in the series to tie it up at 6-6 (including a 4-2 edge since the Buffaloes joined the Pac-12 in 2011 and a 4-3 lead in games played in Boulder) …    DE Terrance Lang made his first career start … ILB Nate Landman played 24 snaps before being ejected for targeting …

P Davis Price had eight punts today, six of which were fair caught; five of those were forced by WR Daniel Arias, who has now forced 11 on the season, a school record topping the 10 by John Walker in 2015.

M*A*S*H. Colorado’s injuries have kept mounting; with two more starters out of the lineup for the first time today (OT Frank Fillip, WR K.D. Nixon), they are the 11th and 12th to miss at least one game this season. They join CB Delrick Abrams (1 game), OLB Jacob Callier (6), P Alex Kinney (8), WR Jay MacIntyre (2), CB Chris Miller (3), WR Laviska Shenault (3), OG Brett Tonz (1), WR Juwann Winfree (4), S Evan Worthington (2) and PKs James Stefanou and Evan Price (the last 4 between the two; counting them as one). And this doesn’t include two likely starters ruled out for the season, OL Isaac Miller and TE Jared Poplawski, or DE Jase Franke (4 games) who rotated in on the line.

And three of CU’s top special teams performers missed today with injuries: TB Beau Bisharat (CU’s special teams points leader), DB Lucas Cooper and CB Kevin George.

First Quarter Buffs. Colorado has now outscored the opponent 87-31 in the first quarter; the Buffs have not allowed a first quarter touchdown for five straight games, which is tied for the seventh-longest active streak nationally.

INDIVIDUAL LINER NOTES

TB Travon McMillian (9-73, 1 TD rushing)
He is approaching a 1,000-yard season, as through today he has 910 yards on the year.
He had his fourth play this season of 50 yards or longer with his 64-yard run in the first quarter; that goes with two 75-yard runs and a 57-yard reception. He is just the fourth player at CU to have four or more plays from scrimmage in a single season that include at least one rush and one reception, joining Cliff Branch (1971), Jeff Campbell (1989) and Mike Pritchard (1990).

WR Laviska Shenault (10-102 receiving; 1-8 rushing)
He returned after missing three full games to catch his average of passes per game coming in, and he had his fifth 100-yard game of the year, tied for the fourth-most in a single-season at (three had six).
For the year, he now has 70 receptions (seventh-most for a CU single season), 882 yards (12th most), or 12.6 per. He will not qualify for the national statistics unless he plays in the next two games to reach the NCAA minimum 75 percent of a team’s games played.
With the 102 yards, he became the 30th player in CU history to hit 1,000-yard mark for a career (1,050; he passed Jay MacIntyre into 29th).

QB Steven Montez (35-20-0, 199, 0 TD, 104.9 rating; 4-minus 15 rushing; 184 yards total offense)
With 199 yards passing, he moved into fourth place on CU’s all-time passing yards list (6,587, passing Kordell Stewart (6,481), who ironically was in attendance today as he was inducted into CU’s Athletic Hall of Fame.
With 184 yards of total offense, he now has 7,343, passing Joel Klatt (7,245) and Cody Hawkins (7,250) into third place; he trails Stewart (7,770) and Sefo Liufau (10,509).

CB/KR Ronnie Blackmon (2-28 punt returns)
He now has 266 punt return yards this year, the most since Josh Smith had 292 in 2008; only three Buffs have had 300 or more the last 25 seasons (Roman Hollowell, 522 in 2001; Jeremy Bloom 336 in 2002; and Chase McBride 316 in 2007).