Colorado-Arizona Notes
vs
Houston
Sep 12 (Fri)
5:30 PM
- Colorado has won back-to-back road games by 27-plus points for the first time in 37 years, since 1987 when the Buffs beat Iowa State 42-10 on Oct. 31 and Kansas State 41-0 on Nov. 21. CU is the first Big 12 team to accomplish that feat since Oklahoma in 2015. CU has also won three straight road games for the first time since the end of the 2001 and start of the 2002 seasons.
- Sack Party: Colorado’s seven sacks are a season high and the most in a road game since having eight at Washington State on Sept. 11, 2004. Colorado had five sacks in the first four games of the season combined and has had 16 in the last three. Four Colorado players have multiple sacks in a game in the last three games, Taje McCoy (UCF), BJ Green (K-State) and Samuel Okunlola and Keaton Wade Saturday. Arizona had given up just six sacks entering Saturday’s game on the season.
- Travis Hunter did not play in the second half as a precautionary measure. In the first half he did see action on both sides of the ball, more so on offense. Coach Prime: “He’s sore and banged up. Travis wanted to play, I don’t know if he was quite 100 percent, but half of Travis is more than a whole of a lot of people.”
- LaJohntay Wester caught eight passes for 127 yards, both bests for him in a Colorado uniform. It’s his 11th career 100-yard receiving game and he now has 286 career catches for 3,148 yards and 28 touchdowns. At CU this season, he has 34 catches for 445 yards and 7 touchdowns.
- Colorado forced three turnovers against Arizona and has forced three or more in each of the last three road games, forcing 11 total in those three games. Colton Hood had his second interception of the season, both coming in the last two games, and BJ Green forced a fumble that Lavonta Bentley recovered. Brendan Gant recovered the other fumble.