Dave Plati of the Sports Information Office released his New Year's Plait-'Tudes yesterday with facts about last year and some commentary. There have been different degrees of spinning the youth that CU has played with over the last two years but it is hard to spin this size a number:

A total of 95 freshmen (true or redshirt) started games for Colorado in 2007 and 2008, nearly double any previous two-year total (partly due to CU losing 121 games due to injury, 110 by players who figured into the two-deep). When playing the nation’s seventh toughest schedule as determined by Sagarin computer rankings.

This is really hard to believe...

No excuses next year but 95 freshmen is pretty eye popping and a reason for hope in the upcoming years.