Colorado-California Notes
vs
Wyoming
Sep 20 (Sat)
8:15 p.m.
QUICKLY
Records. California now leads the series by a 7-5 count (5-0 in Berkeley, 2-5 in Boulder) … CU is now 32-24 in the post-World War II Era (1946-present) in games following a bye week (6-6 since joining the Pac-12) … Cal is the 24th school the Buffs have played 24 or more times; CU is 13-10-1 all-time in those 24th games ... Colorado is now 3-3 under interim head coaches … Colorado is now 9-9 in overtime games; this is the second CU won with a TD pass in the first OT (other: 1999 in Boulder vs, Missouri in 46-39 win; Mike Moschetti 24 yard pass to Marcus Stiggers; Ben Kelly INT on defense ended it).
- Special Teams Captain. Interim head coach Mike Sanford put in place a move to select a special teams captain for each game for the remainder of the year. Today’s was OLB Ben Finneseth.
- Family Weekend Games. CU started to regularly include a football game in its Parent’s Weekend events in 1992; the name was eventually changed to Family Weekend in 2003. Colorado is 21-9 in these games; today’s attendance of 50,471 ups the overall attendance for the 30 games to 1,489,463, or 49,649 per.
- Scoreless First Quarter. The scoreless first quarter in today’s game was just the 12th involving the Buffaloes over the last 239 games (dating back to 2003); last was vs. Minnesota in 2021.
- 3-0 … CU’s lead at halftime; the last time CU shutout a team in the first half was Family Weekend vs. Arizona last year (6-0).
- Night & Day Part I. Colorado allowed 400 yards in the first half to Arizona its last time out (Oct. 1). Cal had 103 today.
- Night & Day Part II. Colorado allowed 673 yards on defense in the 43-20 loss at Arizona two weeks ago; Cal came into today averaging 398.2 yards offensively but was held to 297. The 376-yard difference between games is the seventh-best improvement from one game to the next in CU history. The top 10:
1980 Oklahoma (875) Drake (347) 528
1981 Nebraska (719) Oklahoma State (238) 481
1946 Texas (594) Utah State (127) 467
1971 Oklahoma (670) Missouri (225) 445
1949 Oregon (515) Utah State (109) 406
2009 Toledo (624) Wyoming (230) 394
2022 Arizona (673) California (297) 376
1984 Missouri (639) Iowa State (274) 365
2016 Southern Cal (548) Arizona State (199) 349
2003 Colorado State (585) UCLA (243) 342
- Night & Day Part III. In the first five games, CU allowed 19 plays of 20 yards or more on first down and 50 of 10 yards or longer; Cal was limited to one and five today, respectively.
- Sacks. CU had two day and now five on the season; DE Terrance Lang had one, giving him 10½ for his career, jumping him from 43rd to tying 37th all-time at CU (43rd with 10+ sacks).
- Honorary C Awards. Starting in 1955, these have been presented to a person or persons for their dedication of service or contributions to University of Colorado Athletics. Six honored today: staff members Jen Green (operations), Tim Horton (equipment, recently retired), Kimbirly Orr (C Club executive director), donors William & LeMoine Dowd; and Rich Castro, former women’s cross country and track coach and longtime employee of CU’s recreation center.
- First Action As Buffs. Three players saw their first action as a Buffalo: LB Caiden Robertson, DB Austin Dahlke, CB Trey Ortega.
INDIVIDUAL LINER NOTES
WR Montana Lemonious-Craig (8-119, 14.9 avg., 1 TD, 4 FD)
-He career-highs in receptions and yards and scored the third TD of his career, along with a career-best long of 37 yards.
-It was CU’s first 100-yard game of the season; the first since Brenden Rice at Oregon last Oct. 30, 2021 (5-102); it was the most yards since Dimitri Stanley at Stanford in 2020 (6-126).
-He was targeted eight times and caught all eight.