Colorado-Stanford Notes
November 07, 2015 | Football
Tonight's Captains: Awuzie, Kelley, Liufau, Olugbode
Players who carried out CU's symbolic instruments tonight:
Sledgehammer: Derek McCartney      Â
Toolbox: Colin Johnson
Special Teams Belt: Colin Johnson   Â
Buffalo Head: Terran Hasselbach
United States Flag: Stephane NembotÂ
Colorado Flag: Robert Orban
QUICKLY Stanford now leads the series by a 6-3 count (3-0 with both as members of the Pac-12); Colorado leads 3-2 in Boulder … The game took exactly 3 hours, the fastest this season involving CU … C/OG Sully Wiefels (Jr.) made his first career start, doing so at left guard; he became the 21st different player to make his first career start for CU this season …
Colorado gained 80 yards of offense in the first quarter; in Stanford's 48-0 win here in 2012, CU had 76 for the game …
STRENGTH vs. STRENGHTH … Colorado came in averaging 82.9 plays a game (fifth nationally); Stanford was allowing 68.3 (in the top 20 for the fewest allowed). And the winner is … Stanford held CU to a season-low 53 plays, also the fewest since 2012 when it had 44 – against Stanford.
CU did a decent job corralling Christian McCaffrey when it came to post-contact rushing yards (57 of his 147 yards).
INDIVIDUAL LINER NOTES
SS Tedric Thompson.  His 71-yard interception return came on his fourth pick of his career; first this season (he is also the eighth CU player to record an INT in 2015); the 71 yards tied for the 22nd longest in school history.
QB Sefo Liufau (18-10-1, 125, 0 TD; 7-43 rushing). He inched closer to becoming CU's all-time career leader in passing yards (7,303; third) and total offense (7,744; second). He is 110 yards shy of the passing mark and 27 short of the total offense record. He moved into 15th place in all-time quarterback rushing yards with 767 and was the first quarterback to lead CU in rushing yards in a single game since Nov. 1, 2008, when Tyler Hansen had 86 yards on 16 carries against Texas A&M.
--He was 6-of-6 for 82 yards passing on first down today.
PK Diego Gonzalez (1-2 FG, 1-1 PAT, 4 points) He has 78 points on the season, 13th most by a kicker at CU, and is now 16-of-23 in field goals (the 16 makes tie for the sixth-most in a season, the 23 attempts for the eighth-most).Â
WR Nelson Spruce (5-75, 0 TD). He continued to add to his school and Pac-12 marks in career receptions (272) and went over the 3,000-yard plateau (3,022) in adding to his CU record. He has caught at least one pass in 35 straight games (multiple in 30 straight, the latter also a CU record).
