Frost Focus: Buffaloed – A Look At How Colorado Shut Down Nebraska’s Offense

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The Husker offense got off to a blistering start before getting buffaloed by a few well-timed Colorado defensive adjustments

The Flatirons of the Rockies hold a supernatural mystique to readers of Stephen King. The Shining, The Stand, and Doctor Sleep all feature the idyllic foothills of the Rockies as their setting, and Husker fans should also be familiar with the oddities that have occurred in Folsom Field, nestled just below the Flatirons. An 18 year winning streak snapped in 1986. A questionable forward lateral in 1989. A tie on a blistering cold night in 1991, caused by an onslaught of snowballs thrown by CU students who were most likely trustfunders from Southern California or New England. Storming comebacks by the home team that served as cautionary tales in 1997 and 1999. And the most nightmarish of all the oddities: the day the college football equivalent of Rome fell in 2001.

As a diehard and maladjusted Husker fan— because let’s face it, all of us diehard football fans are maladjusted individuals—that previous paragraph was difficult to type without retching at least a couple of times. But the fact is, weird things happen in Boulder, much like weird things happen in the Nebraska-Northwestern “rivalry” in the Big Ten. Saturday’s 71st installment of the Nebraska-Colorado rivalry was no different. A blistering start on a blistering day, followed by a lull, and then capped off with a shootout ending in excruciating heartbreak that no one saw coming at halftime.