Some facts about the 2008 Colorado Buffaloes:
SCHOOL COLORS: Silver, gold and black
FOUNDED: 1876
ENROLLMENT: 29,500
LOCATED: Boulder, Colo.
COACH: Dan Hawkins, third season at Colorado (8-17), 13th overall (100-40-1)
2007 RECORD: 6-7 (4-4 3rd Big 12 North)
LAST BOWL: 2007 Independence Bowl, lost to Alabama 30-24
STADIUM: Folsom Field (53,750)
RETURNING STARTERS: 14 (6 offense, 8 defense).
KEY PLAYERS: DT George Hypolite, QB Cody Hawkins, TB Darrell Scott, OL Ryan Miller, WR Josh Smith
KEY RECRUITS: TB Darrell Scott, TB Ray Polk, TB-KR Rodney Stewart
KEY DEPARTURES: ILB Jordan Dizon, CB Terrence Wheatley, TB Hugh Charles, WR Dusty Sprague
COACHSPEAK: “I tell our guys, life asks you to be your best every day, but our schedule demands it.”—Hawkins.
2008 SCHEDULE:
Aug. 31—Colorado State, at Denver
Sept. 6—Eastern Washington
Sept. 18—West Virginia
Sept. 27—at Florida State, Jacksonville, Fla.
Oct. 4—Texas
Oct. 11—at Kansas
Oct. 18—Kansas State
Oct. 25—at Missouri
Nov. 1—at Texas A&M
Nov. 8—Iowa State
Nov. 15—Oklahoma State
Nov. 28—at Nebraska
