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The conclusion of the proverbial "Golden Era" for Nebraska Football. I still remember being stunned watching this game unfold. Colorado dominated from start to finish. Chris Brown looked like Emmitt Smith that day.
Missing football so I had a "fix" and watched this game. Brent Musburger was really a nebraska homer. I was at this game and loved every minute of it. Watching it again brought back lots of great memories. #GOBUFFS
Being a Gator fan, this game really blew me away! Nebraska had absolutely NOTHING for this Colorado team...incidently, Florida lost to Tennessee that weekend to end all national championship hopes, plus it was Steve Spurrier's last game coaching in the Swamp!
This game killed Nebraska AND the BCS forever. I remember turning this on about midway through the first quarter and could not believe the ass kicking Colorado delivered. When the computer spit out that Nebraska was going to the championship game, that’s when the NCAA knew that changes needed to be made.
Brian McSweeney: You realize these changes were never made right? I mean, we had the same situation a few years ago where Penn State beat Ohio State head to head and won the conference, but they had two losses while Ohio State had one, so Ohio State went into the playoff. That was decided by a committee, not the bcs. This game did not destroy Nebraska. It's not like we could win the NC next season if only we could get over that darn Colorado game. Pretty sure Nebraska fell because other teams caught up with them and not only did Nebraska fail to come up with new innovations to gain an edge, they got away from what works best for them. Even now I don't think running the spread is going to work here. Nebraska needs to run a power running offense like Wisconsin.
@@allengreene9954 one not gonna happen, they'll be fine, 2 Big 12 is long gone now that Texas and Oklahoma are gone as well. With time Nebraska will get there
After so many close defeats and a string of Nebraska dominance, Colorado came and conquered. Fitting to be on their home field too. I hated Nebraska so much during the 90s and I remember when my Cats beat them in the Holiday Bowl in their best college football season ever in 98, it was sweet too. I'm an Irish fan too and CU and them had those Orange Bowl classics in 89 and 90, but I'm just glad they finally won against the Huskers
greyfox37 I'm a U of A alumnus with a lot of family ties to Nebraska, so I've always cheered for both. Nebraska more than got their payback in the 09 holiday bowl 😏. On top of that Nebraska just stole the only good assistant from Rich Rods staff. It's too bad that both programs have been irrelevant since the 90's though, and I think a lot of Zona fans are in denial about how screwed the program is right now. Rich Rod hasn't recruited well at all and it has caught up with him. I'm hoping both schools can get it together for their home and home series that's a few years down the road.
Last week, some 21 years later, South Carolina put a similar beatdown on the #1 Tennessee Volunteers to end the Vols' National Championship aspirations. 63-38.
2023: I gave up football. Was planning to before 2024, but Heupel's 2, 4th and 1's against AL helped me to move up my schedule. Decades of watching and don't remember being that angry. Here TN goes again.
At one point Nebraska was down 28-3. If Only the Patriots-Falcons Super Bowl had been played by then, Nebraska would have come back and won, but they didn't know it was possible to come back from 28-3. Tragic. We could have seen Nebraska play Miami for the NC. I'm sure that would have been a great game, but I guess we'll never know...
Watching football forever. Kept waiting for the inevitable Nebraska comeback and destruction of CU!!! To the point of turning the TV off cuz I didn't want to see them blow it! Boy I'm glad I watched the whole game!
moved into Nebraska on this day, end of the NU dynasty, and probably the last time CU was competitive.... NU claims it wasn't a rivalry. i disagree. colorado versus Nebraska far better than the Iowa game.
I was literally jus born when this game was being played lol but Colorado fan for life there team was stacked in the 90s and 2000-2001 but after they fell off but this season we have a good amount 4stars and some kids coming back
@@m4xchillax959 The 1994, 1995 and 1996 Colorado teams were the best teams that Colorado ever had talent wise but Nebraska had their best teams ever in the same years. Sadly will never see that again. Nebraska has nobody like that to play in the Big Ten. Iowa and Wisconsin??? Give me a break🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿
It’s sad how far Colorado has fallen as well as Nebraska. Idk why because it the College is in a beautiful location but the Administration has basically ignored it stopped caring about Athletics at CU🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿
Oh, this game rears its ugly head once again for us Husker fans. I still find it mind-boggling that Nebraska, even after being down 35-3 had a much-better chance to win this game than people realize. A lot of people talk about the Diedrick fumble at the goal line (and they should), but Colorado's ability to answer Nebraska with that last, second quarter TD after the Huskers cut it to 35-16 was massive (even though Nebraska answered to go into halftime 42-23). From a mental standpoint, it would've been better for Nebraska for the score to be 35-16 than 42-23. The other item which opened up the floodgates was the personal foul after Nebraska did cut the lead to 42-30. This forced Nebraska to kick the ball from the 20-yard line. Even the most-ardent Buffalo fans were like "oh crap, not again," but Barnett and his players used this Husker mistake and turned into a 20-0 deluge to put the nail in the coffin. It's amazing that Colorado scored 55 of its 62 points while only scoring seven points from 12:21 remaining in the second quarter until 12:50 remaining in the fourth quarter, almost an entire half (29:31) of elapsed time with only a single TD while Nebraska piled on 27 points of their own. As far as how 9/11 and the BCS ranking system affected Colorado (and college football), there is an excellent video on RU-vid on the topic well worth your time.
Yes a very strange year, and a very strange game. I have said this is the most competitive blow out I have ever seen. A 32 point lead gets cut to 12 and Nebraska had the ball with a chance to cut it to 5 but the buffs took over and made it 32 again before Nebraska got a garbage time touchdown. As a buffs fan this is one of my fondest memories. As well as our win this past year as I was there to see it in person. Respect to Nebraska. But very few things to me are as satisfying as beating Big red
I see a lot of people acting like this game destroyed Nebraska. You don't seriously think Nebraska would have been winning NC's left and right with Solich or Callahan if only the players could just get over that darn Colorado game right? Considering Nebraska got back to beating Colorado every year starting in 2005 with a dominating blowout on this same field leading to the typical low IQ students to throw trash on the field this idea makes no sense. But this game destroyed them for the season. Nebraska hasn't recovered yet from the terrible leadership of their administration, most notably the firing of Solich and later Pelini, then hiring terrible coaches. Colorado hasn't done so hot since this season either. They never won another conference championship, and have mostly had lousy teams.
Co was a weird team that year. Great wins and great blunders. Finished 10-3, 7 pts from 8-5, but also 3 pts from 11-2. Barnett could not keep them focused. Could have been undefeated unless they played Miami.
Average team? That's a joke. We had an All-American guard. An All-American tackle. An All-American running back. An All-American tight end. An All-American safety. Not average at all as evidenced by you're watching it.
@@yourdaddy6030 The only blemish was a bad loss to Fresno State. Colorado would have probably played Miami if they hadn’t had that blunder although they should have played Miami anyway regardless if they had 2 losses. Same with Oregon.
Looked pretty bad but Nebraska fought back and if Eichert doesn't fumble I think the outcome might have been different. That killed momentum. I think that would have given them the momentum they were looking for.
Christopher Brooks Pretty much...Although it really sunk in the next year with the 40-7 beatdown by PSU. That's when it REALLY sunk in IMHO. Colorado and Miami curb stomped us but they were at least good teams. Miss the Big Eight. So sad that Texas admin has to be all about themselves; they are, in some part, to blame for the death of so many great rivalries.
@@justme7075 I'm not his biggest fan, but he was far from the worst. He's the second best coach Colorado ever had. He's the only other one who got them a conference championship for one thing.
@@justme7075 worst hire? If those scandals never happened he had CU turning into a power house. They had the number 3 recruting class in the nation after that 2001 season. If those scandals never happened CU doesn't lose their recruits and they become a top 10 team for years to come.
You are absolutely correct. This was the beginning of the end for Nebraska. I played at CU 1987 through 1990. I was at this game too and too bad I couldn't have still been on the field
Tennessee and Nebraska suffered losses (both in relation to the 2001 national championship race) that year that they've yet to recover from. This Nebraska loss and Tennessee letting the LSU backup QB run all over the Vols in the title game.
david kahil: Is this something people actually believe? Nebraska players were in the locker room ready to beat Ohio State this year but then they remembered that Colorado game and so they lost again. No, this was the symptom, not the cause. It was a ton of mistakes this administration has made, most notably the firing of Solich and later Pelini, then hiring terrible coaches that Nebraska has not yet recovered from. Colorado didn't exactly tear it up after this season either.
@dadestarmysteries255 *"Colorado didn't exactly tear it up after this season either."* LOL. 2 games later, OR tore CO a new one proving this game was not about CO, but Neb at the beginning of the big dive to irrelevance.
4 Wheel Gaming: It was true. It's not like this was a dumb statement. You apparently have no sense of perspective. There were games played before this game. Nebraska was a much better running team than Colorado. It was just in this game that Colorado's running game exploded.
To put this game in perspective: Nebraska prior to this game from 1970 up through the Kansas State game two weeks before this: 330-58-5 Nebraska since this game: 137-94
Wow. I knew they'd fallen off, but to see the numbers is still shocking. CFB is a better place when Nebraska and Tennessee are elite. I hope those days aren't far off. Although Nebraska isn't off to a hot start this year. If Frost isn't the guy, then idk who is bc that was a homerun hire by all standards.
come on lol. It's not like Barnett wasn't trying to score 100. It had something to do with nu scoring 500 plus yards of offense and CU not being able to score 100. Come on asshole Barnett was trying too.
In retrospect, it really isn't. There's always a 1st game in any run. This is Neb 1st game on the road to irrelevance. Talk about not needing directions.
This was the start of the downfall of nebraska, they went to the NC and got beat by Miami after this and have sucked since then...which is good because no team deserves to lose more then nebraska.
Eric Honecker shit if any deserves losses it's Colorado, you don't know how to celebrate a win let alone take loss. And I have the insurance paper work from my car getting damaged in 2005 game. Talk about sore losers
Colorado has won only 10 of the last 50 games against Nebraska. That's nothing to brag about. Nebraska was pretty good that year up until the end of the year. Neither Colorado or Nebraska or Oregon would've beat Miami. Did CU beat Oregon in their Bowl game?
Colorado ripped the mask off the farce that was knebraska football. In the next 5 years Colorado proceeded to en knu's 9-wins-per-season streak and ended knu's bowl streak. Knu is an afterthought in the Big 10 and will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.@@joescopo8933
+Jaylon: Colorado defeated #3 Texas 39-37 8 days after this game in the Big 12 Championship Game. That's how Texas was knocked out of the National Championship picture. And Texas had beaten Colorado 41-7 earlier (October 20) that season. I just wanted to add this in addition to what KoachKrab127 said.
I live in Oklahoma, and I remember going to Wal-Mart laughing my ass off about the bedlam game and seeing people crying. Literally, like a family member had died.
Remember this game like it was yesterday. Big Buff fan growing up in Husker country. Needless to say I drove to the nearest bar and rubbed it in some hurting Husker fans faces!!!lol
this is the day Nebraska football disappeared they haven't really been relevant ever since how about that two butt kickings 62 to 36 to Colorado then Miami destroyed them 37 to 14 and the Rose bowl Nebraska football right after that Nebraska football has been dead best at average
Shay Hicks If we're talking about the Osborne-era Huskers, yes. They were MUCH more dynamic with the running game. The Solich era Huskers were a cheap imitation of Osborne's offense. Honestly, Neb had a lot of luck against Colo from about 96 on. From 96 to 2000, Colo had a chance to win each of those ballgames. They were due and like dumbass Danielson said (one of the few times I agree with him on anything), this was Neb's first real test away from home. And we failed in a miserable way Miss the Big Eight, not the Texas-run Big 12 (and yes they do run that conference, those who stayed will figure that out in due time).
VancouverChokers Well if we are being honest, 99 and 00 Colorado SHOULD have won those games, and we let it slip through our fingers poor special teams (Aldridge missed field goal to win it, then the stupid squib kick that gave Nebraska the ball at the 50). So this was an exorcism of demons for our team. And my comment was made in reference to that game and that year. I thought it was very ironic that he said Nebraska runs the ball a lot better and CU rushed all over the huskers that day. I know a lot of Nebraska fans deny that Colorado was a true rival, but you can not deny that in the last days of the Big 8 and the early days of the Big XII Colorado and Nebraska had some amazing games.
@@chaseyoung9628 between 1996 and 2000 Cu lost all 5 games to Nebraska by a combined 15 points. The 1999 and 2000 were the most painful. 1999 stormed back from a 27-3 fourth quarter deficit and tied it at 27. They even were in great position for the game winning field goal, but it went wide right and Nebraska won in overtime. In 2000 colorado scored what seamed to be the game tying touchdown with about 40 seconds left, but decided to go for 2 and the win and got it. Up 32-31 colorado squib kicked the ball on the kickoff and Nebraska got the ball around midfield. It took like 2 plays and the Huskers were in field goal range and kicked the game winner as time expired to win.
True story I was in Omaha that Thanksgiving weekend, went Black Friday shopping at Circuit City, had some breakfast, came back to watch the game. Being a huge fan from Colorado, I was not expecting much as Nebraska looked unstoppable that year. I could not speak for days after that game. Lost my voice from all the screaming.
Remember watching this on TV. This KSU alum was rooting for CU. I loved this! And students at the KSU Student Union were jumping for joy as well watching CU demolish Nebraska. Thanks for posting this!
It should’ve been Oregon going to national championship game they would lose to a great Miami team that day I believe the only team that could beat 02 Miami would be 04 USC because the hurricanes couldn’t beat that speed USC possesses with Bush and White
Jamal Greasy no Frank Gore no Andre Johnson no Jeremy Shockey no Jonathan Vilma no Mike Rumph a lot of true NFL talent gone from no mount mackenee I know I spelled that wrong and it still took a phantom PI to win that game the 01-02 canes vs the 04-05 USC Trojans would’ve been a great football game
Jamal Greasy no they weren’t Andre Johnson was on the Texans and Gore was on the 49ers at that time Shockey was a giant and they were missed in the title game
Watching this game again for the first time since it was played. It is now 2023. New Coach Prime is winning the PR game, without having yet played his first Spring ball game in Boulder, but this game reminded me of what real talent looks like, and CU has a long way to go to get back to this level. I will be getting off the hype train and wait for fall.
I was in Vegas that weekend. My nephew from Albuquerque was in a YAFL game. I put $100 bucks down on CU. I can't remember which casino. When I went to collect, I told them to call me the next time they want to miss a major college football game by five touchdowns.
#blackdiamondpress💯2k21 i Was so excited for Colorado! My Buffs put the pieces together 2 beat those Ole Huskers after All those years of losing w/better teams. N 4 it 2 b a no.1 ranked Nebraska team Only made it sweeter? 🙏 God 4 this 1. Classic. Signed by ×mighty-mighty Jr™
18:52 holy shit Yeah it was called back (probably shouldn't have been) but LOOK AT THAT FUCKING HOLE! It's not even a "hole" it's a passage. WTF was the Nebraska defensive staff watching. Colorado ran the same counter play all game.
Saw this NU team regularly, up close and personal. The most arrogant, weird, selfish, privileged group of guys. Exactly what you would expect from a bunch of guys recruited after the best team ever...they thought they were champions just because of the N on the helmet, all the way up to the coach, thought they could just roll the ball out.
Frank solich didn't recruit a lick...took over one of the top recruiting classes in the nation and then added nothing to it for years upon years. Such a waste of hard work to build this program up to the best ever, only to have it destroyed in a few years by a lazy alcoholic. HIs last recruiting class was 40th in the nation and didn't even fill all spots. Coach Callahan came in the next year and had a top 5 class. Nebraska still had a chance to be great.
Hey! Despite this decisive as all hell game, AND the fact that Oregon then beat the Buffs.... you know how should play for the BCS championship? How about Nebraska?! What a great system the BCS was.
GrassValleyGreg: Oregon beat Colorado in a bowl game after the BCS had decided so that has nothing to do with the BCS decision, but yeah, not a great idea.
@@GrassValleyGreg every higher ranked team lost and lost after this so the computers & AP had no choice but to rank Nebraska #2. it was like BCS chaos in '07 before it became a big deal.
This was Solich's 50th game as head coach. He officially came the worst coach in NCAA history with an 0.840 winning percentage (42-8). Amazingly, there was a second chance to win the BCS Championship, and Solich became the worst coach in NCAA history with a 42-9 record losing to Miami 37-14 - and the program hasn't come to close to playing for a National Championship since.
One cannot help but think how the game would have turned if Dahrran Diedrick hadn't fumbled that ball at the goal line with 8:34 left in the 3rd quarter, which would have made the game 42-30, which it would get to several minutes later on their next possession. You've got to give Colorado credit for withstanding a 27-7 Husker fun and ending the game on a 20-6 run of their own.
gynandroidhead really, what about Callahan? Sorry but Solich should of not of been fired. Or Pelini as well. You do not fire coaches who get you 9 or more wins a year.
@@sorney98 Frank Solich was fired because he went 16-12 in his last 28 games once Osborne's recruits had all graduated. The 9-3 season he had in 2003 still sucked because the losses to the better teams were horrific at that point in time, especially the 38-9 loss in Lincoln to K-State. How he was fired, who replaced him, and the nightmare of Steve Pederson were a debacle. For what it is worth, at the time - I thought Solich deserved another year, but I wasn't shedding a tear when he was shown the door, and neither were too many other people.
gynandroidhead all I gotta say is look at the years since we fired Solich. 4 losing seasons, 2 which we witness horrible losses. Some to teams we never visioned losing to. You saw it, no one wanted the job after we fired Solich. We suffered horribly while Solich made a program of Ohio better. Who’s laughing now? We have Frost but still have a long way to go.
#blackdiamondpress💯2k21 i Was so excited for Colorado! My Buffs put the pieces together 2 beat those Ole Huskers after All those years of losing w/better teams. N 4 it 2 b a no.1 ranked Nebraska team Only made it sweeter? 🙏 God 4 this 1. Classic. Signed by ×mighty-mighty Jr™
Nebraska's defense basically played by alignment a 5-2 , or a 6-1 defense by playing up in the gaps ! No wonder colorado's zone blocking killed them ! I would have stacked the lbs and pinched the DL force the play to the spill player the s/s !
Someone explain to me how Nebraska managed to play Miami in the NC title game. I know Tennessee & Texas choked in their conference title game. However, if you get ramrodded, punked, stomped, beatdown like THAT your ranking should've dropped out of the Top 10. Oregon should've gotten a chance.
+Jenny Walker It was the craziest two weeks ever in College Football in 2001. Nebraska beating Oklahoma. then Colorado destroying Nebraska. then Tennessee taking down Florida in the swamp. Colorado then beats Texas in the Big 12 Championship game. Followed by LSU upsetting Tennessee in the SEC Championship game. it's like nobody wanted to play Miami. but if anybody should have got the chance to play Miami it should have been Oregon.
LOL. There were some issues with the audio not matching up in this game. Update, on further review the one at 1.14 was not an audio issue. He announced way early.
@@mas5867 Musburger is notorious for calling a play a TD when the player is still 30-40 yards away if there is no defender between the ball carrier and the end zone. Sometimes they still got caught from behind.
@@area.man. I watched him 30+ yrs and I never remember him doing that. He did it twice at the point CO scored 42 pts (1.14). Both times, the players did not get caught. I would love to see where he announced one and the player got caught beforehand. With viewers turning the TV off in droves, I'm sure the advertisers were not happy, so, I get him trying to make it a game.
