0 FARI UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BUFFALOES / SPORTS INFORMATION SERVICE www.CUBuffs.com 2150 Stadium Drive (574 Champions Center), 357 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0357 © 2019 CU Athletics Telephone 303/492-5626 (E-mail/FB contacts: [email protected]; [email protected]) David Plati (Associate AD/SID), Curtis Snyder (Assistant AD), Troy Andre (Associate SID/+CUBuffs.com Managing Editor), Linda Sprouse (Associate SID), COLORADO Seth Pringle (Assistant SID), Shaun Wicen (Assistant SID), Neill Woelk (Contributing Editor/CUBuffs.com), Rob Livingston (Graduate Assistant) RELEASE NUMBER 13 (Updated January 19, 2020) CUBUFFS.COM BUFFALO BITS … The Colorado Buffaloes closed out their 130th season of intercollegiate football nation; the Buffs went 4-3 in those games ... First-year head coach Mel Tucker with a 5-7 record, which included a 3-6 mark in Pac-12 play (finishing fifth in the won more games in his inaugural season at the reins of the program than the last South Division) ... It marked the third straight season with identical final records, three head coaches before him (and five of the last seven) ... The Pac-12 will the third time that has occurred in CU history, joining 6-0 marks in 1909-10-11 release the 2020 conference schedules sometime next month; the non- and 2-8 records in 1962-63-64 ... Looking at preliminary numbers for 2020, conference portion was finalized some time ago: CU open at Colorado State, Colorado at present will return 64 lettermen for 2020, including 15 starters traveling to Fort Collins for the first game there against the Rams since 1996 (the (seven offense/eight defense), along with two kicking specialists (see breakdown series will then go on hiatus for two years); Fresno State was originally supposed on page 75) ... A total of 11 players qualify to save a year of eligibility due to the to visit last year but was bumped to this season in a five-school domino effect of adoption of the NCAA rule that a player can appear in up to four games and not switches; and the Buffs will travel to Texas A&M to play the Aggies there for the lose a season (see page 22 for the list) ...The Buffaloes played seven bowl teams first time since 2008; it will return the game in 2021 ... The PDF version of the in 2019, with the 11 opponents combining for an 85-68 overall record ... 2019 CU Media Guide can be found on-line at www.cubuffs.com/CUFBMG19 ... Colorado was 2-2 against ranked teams this season ... Colorado played in seven CUBuffs.com/media is all things Buff (on-line media guide, live stats, etc.). one-score games (decided by eight point or less), tied for the fourth-most in the DEPTH CHART ON PAGE 72; ROSTERS ON PAGES 73-75; STAT PAGES 76-84 2020 COLORADO SCHEDULE (FW—Family Weekend; HC—Homecoming) Date Opponent Site Date Opponent Site Date Opponent Site S 5 at Colorado State Fort Collins O 9 (Fri.) at Arizona Tucson N 14 at Stanford Palo Alto S 12 FRESNO STATE BOULDER O 17 UCLA (FW) BOULDER N 21 at Washington Seattle S 19 at Texas A & M College Station O 24 ARIZONA STATE (HC) BOULDER N 28 UTAH BOULDER S 26 OREGON BOULDER O 31 at Southern California Los Angeles D 4 Pac-12 Championship Game (Las Vegas) O 3 BYE --- N 7 WASHINGTON STATE (HOF) BOULDER LOOKING AHEAD Tucker Resigns. First-year head coach Mel Tucker resigned on February 11 to take the head coach position at Michigan State. He is the first person to coach CU for just one season since Bud Davis, who was an interim head coach for the entire 1962 season after CU was placed on NCAA probation. Spring Practice Dates. The first of 15 spring practices are scheduled to be on Monday, March 16; Other dates are March 18-20-30, April 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20 and 22; the annual spring game concludes spring drills and has been set for 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 25 (Pac-12 Network to once again televise). August. Unless CU’s opener at Colorado State moves to a weeknight for television (CBS/CSU own the rights), the team is tentatively set to report on August 6, with the first practice the next day. OBSCURE NOTES OF THE YEAR Two Tailbacks Gain 400-plus. For the first time since 2014, two tailbacks gained over 400 yards: Alex Fontenot with 874 and Jared Mangham with 441. The last time two underclassmen did it was in 2013 (sophomore Christian Powell 562, freshman Michael Adkins 535). Otherwise, you have to go back to 1995 to find at least two underclassmen when three did it (sophomores Herchell Troutman 826, Lendon Henry 463 and Marlon Barnes 444). 75-74. Though the opponent held an edge of 62-45 in plays gaining 20 or more yards and 180-170 with 10 or more, on first down, the Buffaloes won the battle in the latter, picking up 10 or more 75 times to the opponents’ 74. CU earned 74 first downs on first down plays and the opponent 70. 2019 COLORADO SCHEDULE & RESULTS (5-7, 3-6 Pac-12) 2019 Date CU* Opponent Opp* TV Result/Time Record Series This-N-That or ’18 rewind Aug. 30 --- Colorado State (N; Denver) --- ESPN W 52-31 4-8 67-22-2 The last M Showdown in Denver ends with CU’s fifth straight win over the Rams SEPT. 7 --- NEBRASKA 25 FOX W 34-31 (OT) 5-7 20-49-2 Offseason conditioning enables Buffs to rally from down 17-0 to dominate late SEPT. 14 --- AIR FORCE --- PAC12 L 23-30 (OT) 11-2 12- 5-0 AFA wins first meeting since ‘74, though CU rallied down 13 to send game into OT Sept. 21 --- at Arizona State (N) 24 PAC12 W 34-31 8-5 3- 8-0 Montez, Brown connect on 3 TD passes; Stefanou wins it with 44 FG (2:03 left) OCT. 5 --- ARIZONA (FW) --- PAC12 L 30-35 4-8 14- 8-0 Another wild CU-UA game; nine lead changes as Wildcats hold on late Oct. 11 --- at Oregon (N) 13 FS-1 L 3-45 12-2 9-13-0 Oregon scores 21 points in a 4:40 span turning a 17-3 game into its control Oct. 19 --- at Washington State --- ESPNU L 10-41 6-7 6- 7-0 Predicted scorefest never materialized; 24-10 late in the third went south for CU OCT. 25 --- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (N) RV ESPN2 L 31-35 8-5 0-14-0 Buffs lead for 42:34, but USC’s two fourth quarter TDs rally Trojans to the win Nov. 2 --- at UCLA --- PAC12 L 14-31 4-8 4-11-0 Bruins go up 17-0 quickly, Buffs could get no closer than 10 (7-17, 17-24) NOV. 9 --- STANFORD (HC) --- PAC12 W 16-13 4-8 5- 6-0 E.Price kicks FG at gun; CU has two straight wins in series by a combined 26-18 NOV. 23 --- WASHINGTON RV ESPN W 20-14 8-5 6-12-1 Buffs have best defensive effort of season, holding UW to 238 yards Nov. 30 --- at Utah 6 ABC L 15-45 11-3 32-31-3 CU strikes first but Utah rallied for 17-7 lead at half and pulled away (KEY: *—AP rank at time of game; —Pac-12 Conference game; N—Night game; HC—Homecoming; FW—Family Weekend. All times mountain) 2019 COLORADO FOOTBALL The Media Page Page 2 Collegepressbox.com is the official media COLORADO MEDIA SERVICES PRONUNCIATION GUIDE website for Division I football. Access and download Head coach Mel Tucker holds a Tuesday weekly game notes, quotes, statistics, media guides, Coaches/Staff media luncheon, located in the Champions Center headshots, logos and more for each conference and its Jimmy BRUMBAUGH (brum-bah) (third floor, room 319). All will start at 11:30 a.m. with Darrin CHIAVERINI (shiv-ah-ree-knee) member schools. Register for access at: Chris KAPILOVIC (kuh-pil-oh-vick) lunch, followed by Tucker promptly at Noon and select www.collegepressbox.com/register. Brian MICHALOWSKI (michael-ow-ski) players before and/or afterwards depending on class The Pac-12 Mountain Network is the Al PUPUNU (puh-pooh-new) conflicts. This year’s dates: Sept. 3-10-17; Oct. 1-8- TRAVARES Tillman (truh-varr-es) television home of the Buffaloes; it produces a variety 15-22-29; Nov. 5-19-26; Dec. 3-TBA (bowl). The of programming featuring all 12 member institutions. Players press conference portions are streamed live on 10 JASH Allen (jash) www.CUBuffs.com (in the BuffsTV area); press THE BUFFS ON THE INTERNET 22 Daniel ARIAS (are-e-us) conferences on CUBuffs.com do not require access 84 Clayton BACA (bah-cah) The official CU site on the Internet can be found 35 Beau BISHARAT (bish-er-rot) codes. (TV Pool Assignments for 2019: KCNC will at www.CUBuffs.com has the most up-to-date 25 MEHKI Blackmon (muh-kye as in eye) coordinate all CU press luncheons). information, releases, game notes, press conference 21 JAREK BROUSSARD (jerek brew-sard) Note: The Front Range Huddle kicked off the media 15 Legend BRUMBAUGH (brum-bah) broadcasts (free), articles by longtime journalist and luncheons for the season on Aug. 22 in Denver. 6 Curtis CHIAVERINI (shiv-ah-ree-knee) CUBuffs.com contributing editor Neill Woelk along The Pac-12 Teleconference Call that used 22 Grant CICCARONE (sis-a-roan) with podcasts/video by the voice of the Buffs, Mark 57 John DEITCHMAN (dych-mon) take place on Tuesdays are no more; lack of Johnson; the direct link to the Football Media 18 Jeremiah DOSS (dause) participation from those media on the call contributed Center is cubuffs.com/ColoradoMediaCenter.