Colorado-Missouri Notes
November 05, 2005 | Football
u This-N-That... Colorado is 5-0 at home for the first time since going 6-0 in 1994... The Buffs extended its consecutive game scoring streak to 206 games... Colorado is 5-1 in Big 12 play, its fourth start of 5-1 or better in the 10 years of the conference (6-0 in 1996 and 5-1 in 2001 and 2002)... CU is now 48-16-1 in its last 65 games played in November (15-6 under Gary Barnett, including 9-1 the last 10 times out)... TB Byron Ellis made his first career start... CU held Missouri QB Brad Smith to a season-low 16 yards on 13 rushes (12-30 pure rushing taking out a sack).
u Rush Defense. Missouri (30-59) was the seventh opponent Colorado held under 100 yards this season, a school best (the 1994 team previously had the best, holding six under the century mark). CU has allowed 734 rushing yards this season, or 81.6 per game. CU is now 85-6-1 since 1985 when the opponent has failed to record 100 rushing yards.
u Scoring Drives. Colorado's 94-yard drive for a touchdown was the longest this season, and the longest since a 7-play, 95-yard effort against North Texas on Sept. 18, 2005.
u WR Stephone Robinson (5-50 receiving, 1-24 rushing). Robinson, after moving back to wide receiver from cornerback prior to the Miami game, had the first offensive touches of his career. He also picked up three first downs in the process.
u Series Stuff. CU now has 18 wins in the last 21 in the series to pull to within 36-31-3 of the Tigers all-time. The 29-point margin of victory was the biggest in the series since 1991, when the Buffs won 55-7 in Boulder (wearing all black as the camp was tired of all the 5th down conversation).
u CU vs. the Big 12 North. Colorado has now won seven straight games against its Big 12 North Division rivals, and is 20-3 since 2001 against the division (MU is 8-16 in the same stretch). The Buffs are 11-1 at home in that stretch, the only loss to Nebraska in 2003.
u PK Mason Crosby (5-5 PAT, 2-3 FG). His 56-yard field goal in the second quarter was the fifth longest in school history (he owns three of the top five, including the all-time long of 60 and a 58-yarder). It is also the fourth longest in the NCAA this season (he is tied for the long with 58). It was Crosby's ninth regular season field goal of 50-plus yards, the 10th including bowl games.
--His 11 points today gives him 215 for his career, as he moved past Bobby Anderson (212) into third place all-time at Colorado. He trails only Eric Bieniemy (254) and Jeremy Aldrich (231).
u TE Quinn Sypniewski (4-49, 1 TD). Sypniewski played in his 49th regular season and 51st overall game in a Colorado uniform today, both school records and he broke a tie for both with WR Derek McCoy (2000-03).
u VB Lawrence Vickers (18-85, 4 TD). He has career single game rushing best with the 85 yards (topping the 72 yards he had against Oklahoma State in 2004). He scored a career-high four touchdowns, the 15th time in CU history a player has scored four rushing TDs in a game (Chris Brown has the record with six against Nebraska in 2001; four were scored the other 14 times). Vickers is only the second Buff to do it, with Brown, since the Big 12 was formed in 1996.
u Miscellaneous Stat of the Game. Colorado ran 37 plays for 219 yards in plus territory (5.9 per play), while Missouri ran 17 for 56 yards (3.3 per). Missouri only ran five plays on the Colorado side of the 50 against CU's full first-team defense.
u QB Joel Klatt. He opened the game with 12 straight pass completions before missing, tying for the third longest streak in school history (his last pass at Kansas State last week was an incompletion). Mike Moschetti owns the record of 15 (over two games in 1999?San Jose State and Kansas), with Koy Detmer next with 14 (at Colorado State in 1996); Kordell Stewart had a streak of 12 over two games in 1992 (vs. Colorado State and Baylor).
--The 33rd record. Klatt's 31 passes without an interception extended his streak to 122, his 33rd school record; that distanced itself from the old record of 104, set by Craig Ochs over a four-game stretch in 2000. Klatt's last interception came in the second quarter at Texas; he has just four in 294 attempts this season.
--His 6-yard TD pass to Quinn Sypniewski improved his career ratio to 24-to-1 of touchdowns to interceptions in the red zone.
