GAME 12's
#1—2001: Colorado 39, Texas 37 at Irving.
A hostile environment was awaiting the Buffaloes at Texas Stadium, not exactly a neutral site for CU's first appearance in the Big 12 Championship game, but it was the 7,000 or so Colorado fans who left happy as the No. 9 Buffs claimed their first Big 12 crown with a 39-37 win over the No. 3 Texas Longhorns. Things were even ratcheted up a notch when it was announced that No. 2 Florida had lost to Tennessee, paving the way to the national championship game in the Rose Bowl for the 10-1 Longhorns if they could beat the Buffs. And UT, which had defeated CU, 41-17 in the regular season, came out inspired, stifling the CU offense on the game's first possession and then scoring on its first drive, marching 85 yards in just six plays to take a 7-0 lead with 9:56 left in the first quarter. Two series later, Texas was again driving and had reached the CU 22, but linebacker Aaron Killion picked off a Chris Simms pass and raced 73 yards to the UT 12. Chris Brown scored on a 10-yard run three plays later, and it ignited a 29-3 scoring spree for the Buffaloes over the next 15 minutes as the Buffs used four Longhorn turnovers to take control of the game. On CU's next possession, Brown got things going with a 24-yard run to get the Buffs into field goal range, enabling Jeremy Flores to make good on a 39-yard kick on the second play of the second quarter. That made the score 10-7, a lead CU would not relinquish. Following a Joey Johnson interception, CU was back in business at its own 36. Bobby Purify's 51-yard run to the UT 3 set up Brown's second touchdown and a 16-7 edge (the PAT kick sailed wide). After UT cut the margin to 16-10 and a CU punt, DeAndre Fluellen sacked Simms and forced a fumble that Matt McChesney recovered at the Texas 22. Bobby Pesavento hit tight end Daniel Graham on the very next play to pad the lead to 22-10 (the two-point try failed), and CU finished the scoring blitz when Medford Moorer picked off his first career pass three plays later and returned it 64 yards for a touchdown and a 29-10 Colorado advantage. Major Applewhite replaced Simms at quarterback for UT and would eventually lead the Longhorns back into the game, but it wasn't enough to counter Brown's third score (an 11-yard run in the third quarter) and 43-yard Flores field goal. Though it pulled to within two points with 43 seconds left, Texas never had the ball in the final 34 minutes within one score of the champion Buffs. Brown was the individual star with 182 yards and three TDs to lead CU, which became the fifth different school in six years at the time to win the Big 12 crown, joining Nebraska (twice), Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A& M.
Runner-Up— 2016: Colorado 27, Utah 22 in Boulder.
A win would earn the Buffaloes their first Pac-12 South Division title – after five straight last place finishes – and a berth in the league title game; a loss would give the title to USC. After spotting Utah a 7-0 lead on a punt return touchdown, CU rallied to tie the game on a Sefo Liufau 2-yard run as time expired in the first quarter. Chris Graham made a pair of short field goals (from 25 and 19 yards) as the only other scores before halftime to put CU ahead, 13-7. The Buffs never trailed again but couldn't shake the Utes, who tied the game at 13 on two field goals of their own. On the final play of the third quarter, Liufau connected with Shay Fields on a 6-yard TD pass and the PAT by Davis Price made it 20-13. Utah pulled back to within 20-16 on its next possession, but the CU defense stepped up: the Utes returned the kickoff 93 yards to the CU 3 yard-line, but Jimmie Gilbert recorded a two-yard TFL on first down and Ahkello Witherspoon and Tedric Thompson batted down passes on the next two plays to hold Utah to just three. A 10-yard fumble return by Kenneth Olugbode with 10:52 remaining sealed the 10th win of the year and the division crown as a sellout crowd of 52,301 watched – the first at Folsom Field in eight years – despite being the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Liufau was a one-man wrecking crew, passing for 270 yards while running for 59 more and a hand in both of CU's offensive TDs.
Honorable Mention—1990: Colorado 64, Kansas State 3 in Boulder.
The first 12th game in CU's regular season history; a Buff win would secure a second straight outright Big 8 title and subsequent berth in the Orange Bowl as well as a likely shot at the national championship for the second year in a row; Colorado had vaulted from No. 14 in the polls four weeks earlier into the No. 2 spot. Darian Hagan was the first of eight Buffs to score on the day, capping an 80-yard opening game drive with a 23-yard TD run. It was 40-3 at halftime, CU had 456 yards of total offense by intermission, and the first-team was through for the day four minutes into the second half. The Buffs had some fun on offense, as outside linebackers Alfred Williams and Kanavis McGhee begged coach McCartney to play a snap or two at tight end. Vance Joseph connected with Williams for a 17-yard gain; his pass to McGhee was broken up as CU closed the regular season with its ninth straight win. CU outgained K-State, 634-205, as 18 different players on offensive got on to the stat sheet, led by Hagan who accounted for 278 yards (200 passing, 78 rushing, the latter on just seven carries). Eric Bieniemy led all runners with 115 yards; he was pulled early in the third quarter (at about 2:15 p.m.), he was the nation's leading rusher at the time with 1,628 yards; but Oklahoma State's Gerald Hudson passed him within the half hour and finished with 1,642 to lead the NCAA.
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