College Football World Lost For Words Over Colorado’s Horrific First Half Vs. Utah

There are blowouts, and past location is immoderate is happening astatine Rice-Eccles Stadium successful Salt Lake City connected Saturday night.

Coming disconnected nan bye week that followed a 24–17 triumph complete No. 22 Iowa State earlier this month, coach Deion Sanders and his Colorado Buffaloes were handed a rude invited backmost to nan gridiron by Utah. Entering halftime, Colorado trailed nan Utes 43–0 and were getting shellacked successful each facet of nan game.

The Buffaloes’ defense allowed a whopping 398 full yards—including 163 rushing yards to Utah backmost Byrd Ficklin alone—in that first half, compared to a mind-boggling -18 full yards gained by nan Colorado offense.

Six of Colorado’s 9 violative drives successful nan first half were three-and-outs, and 5 possessions ended pinch nan Buffaloes gaining 2 yards aliases little earlier punting it distant (or, well, a information aliases a blocked punt).

“I don’t deliberation I’ve ever seen thing for illustration it,” expert Brock Osweiler said connected nan ESPN broadcast. “We knew Utah was a really bully shot squad coming into this game. ... But Colorado—they had momentum coming into this shot game.”

Here’s a look astatine nan charismatic first-half squad stats:

After nan break, sideline newsman Stormy Buonantony relayed Sanders’s connection to his team: “I told them to fight. At this point, this is simply a half astir character. This is astir what benignant of person—not moreover player—what benignant of personification do you want to be? You’re going to spot a different cognition from this squad successful this half.”

The assemblage shot world was stunned by Colorado’s disfigured half:

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