Following a devastating and stunning loss to Oregon State, the leaders of the Colorado football team brought the group together.
“We had a talk earlier and I think that put everyone’s heads on straight and today was good,” senior safety said Monday. “You could see it in everyone’s eyes. We want to play ball and show that what we showed these last thee games, we can do better than that.”
CU (5-3, 2-3 Pac-12) is riding a three-game losing streak heading into Friday’s matchup at Arizona (4-5, 3-3), but no loss was more crushing than Saturday’s 41-34 overtime defeat against Oregon State.
Leading 31-3 with less than 24 minutes to go, the Buffs were outscored 38-3 the rest of the way. Oregon State was a 24-point underdog with a 22-game road losing streak that was the nation’s longest.
With a short week ahead, the Buffs got back to work on Sunday, but priority No. 1 is getting right mentally.
“There’s a lot more to that (loss) to get you mentally, because you second guess a million different things,” head coach said. “You show it to them on film, you have to talk to them as players and coaches and everybody has to fess up on different things they made mistakes on.”
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