Colorado-TCU Notes
vs
TCU
Oct 4 (Sat)
5:30 p.m.
QUICKLY
-ESPN Replay. ESPN will replay the game at 2:30 a.m. MDT.
- Records. TCU takes a 1-0 series lead; the back end of the home-and-home is in Fort Worth a year from today (Sept. 2, 2023) … Colorado is now 83-45-5 in season openers (133), which includes a 55-21-1 mark in Boulder; the Buffaloes had won six straight season lid-lifters ... CU is now 19-27 in Friday games and is 24-32-1 when wearing all black (3-2 in season openers).
- This-N-That. The last game delayed due to weather at Folsom Field was on Oct. 3, 2015 vs. Oregon (heavy rain and lightning); that 8:07 p.m. kick was delayed 61 minutes to 9:08, with the game ending at 12:31 a.m., the latest in CU home history (Oregon won, 41-24); tonight’s was delayed for 35 minutes due to lightning in the vicinity … CU sold out of its 14,000 student season sport pass allotment; officials are still selling season tickets … CU held the ball for 22:08 in the first half; TCU had three offensive possessions (the CU record is 24:43 at Oklahoma in the second half in 1993) … The Buffaloes wore the “block CU” on its helmet for the first time since the 1979 season; it was in honor of Cliff Branch, CU’s first player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this past August 6; that was the logo on his helmet when he starred for CU in 1970-71.
- First Score of the Year. Sophomore PK Cole Becker’s 37-yard field goal marked the first time since 2009 that CU’s first score of the year was a field goal; that year, Aric Goodman’s 54-yard field goal got CU on the scoreboard against Colorado State.
-No Turnovers Again … and Again. CU did not have a turnover for its fourth straight season opener and dating back to last year, has just one in its last six games (a strip-sack of Drew Carter late against UCLA).
—97th game dating back to 1946 with none; CU is 62-31-4.
—CU under Dorrell now has nine TO-free games in 19.
FIRST CAREER STARTS Three made their first career starts:SOPHOMORES (2): C Austin Johnson, WR Montana Lemonious-Craig
GRADUATE TRANSFERS (1): OG Tommy Brown.
FIRST CAREER ACTION 18 made their Buffalo debuts tonight (*—mainly on special teams):TRUE FRESHMEN (8): DL Aaron Austin, CB Simeon Harris, ILB *Eoghan Kerry, P *Ashton Logan, CB Jason Oliver, WR Chase Sowell, WR Jordyn Tyson, OL Van Wells
REDSHIRT FROSH (3): WR Jack Hestera, TB Charlie Offerdahl, TE Erik Olsen
SOPHOMORE (2): S Jeremy Mack, OL Alex Harkey
JUNIORS (1): QB J.T. Shrout
GRADUATE TRANSFERS (4): OG Tommy Brown, ILB Josh Chandler-Semedo, DL Chance Main, WR R.J. Sneed
INDIVIDUAL LINER NOTES
PK Cole Becker (1-1 PAT, 2-2 FG, 7 points)
► He jumped from 88th into a tie for 78th on CU’s all-time scoring chart with 74 points. After opening his career in 2021 with three misses, he opened this season with two straight makes.
WR Daniel Arias (4-66, 16.5 avg. receiving)
► He celebrated his 24th birthday Friday.
► He matched his career high with four receptions (he had four at UCLA last year), with the 66 yards second-most to the 70 he had against the Bruins.
► He moved from 99th to 90th in all-time receiving yards at CU with 490 (on 32 receptions).
WR Jordyn Tyson (2-26, 13.0 avg. 1 TD receiving)
► He became the first true freshman in CU history to catch a TD pass in a season opener when he hauled in a 23-yard throw from J.T. Shrout in the fourth quarter. Only three redshirt or second-year freshmen have done it (the last being Montana Lemonious-Craig against UNC last year).
► He almost joined another exclusive club: his second career catch went for a TD (only a handful of players in CU history had a score on their first reception).
QB Brendon Lewis (18-13-0, 78, 0 TD, 108.6 rating)
► He has now thrown 150 consecutive passes without an interception; that is the third-longest in school annals:
172 Steven Montez (seven games, Sept. 23-Nov. 4, 2017)
152 Sefo Liufau (nine games, Nov. 13, 2015 to Nov. 3, 2016)
150 Brendon Lewis (seven games, Oct. 23, 2021 to present)
139 Joel Klatt (five games, Oct. 15 to Nov. 12, 2005)
131 Tyler Hansen (four games, Sept. 3 to Oct. 1, 2011)