What Was Colorado's Standout Win Of The Dan Hawkins Era?

This is all of his wins, correct?

OK Oklahoma would have to be it for me, seeing how they were ranked, we stunk, and nobody thought we had a chance.

I was at the NU game, that was a fun one, but they stunk and we still gave up 51 points. OU was actually very good that year. It was also a very exciting game. However… OU then got blown out by WVU in the Fiesta Bowl and we beat them next year, so maybe I should give more respect to the WVU game… But Bill Stewart bungled that game and the one thing I’ll alwyas be reminded of by that game is that Goodman got a scholarship for kicking a glorified extra point, so I’ll stick with OU, yeah OU…

I’ve never been more jacked up for a non-Husker TV game in my life. I didn’t experience the OU game. I was on a trout river in Arkansas that day and could not believe they won, but lived every down of the WVU win glued to the set.. That one made me believe that the team had a future with Darrell Scott & Josh Smith, a Blackout crowd, national TV audience, having just come off our only bowl appearance against Alabama.

Think about that for a minute. We played Alabama in the Independence Bowl just 23 months ago. Alabama came into that game having lost 4 straight, including one to Louisana Monroe, and looked highly beatable. They beat us that night in Shreveport primarily because of the same defense that allowed 51 points to the Huskers in Callahan’s last game just a few weeks prior.

The Buffs won their next three games and started off 3-0 in 2008 capped off by the highly emotional WVU overtime win. Should have been a turning point for the program for the next 5-6 years. A program to be reckoned with for the Big 12 North and Nebraska on their heels, realing from a decade of coaching gone bad. Instead, the Buffs have regressed, winning only 8 more games since that night in Boulder. Dan is 8 and 21 in that time. Since the Independence Bowl, Nick Saban’s team has gone 34-3 and won a national championship, and will likely play for another and Nebraska has quickly rebounded to the level of their late ’90’s quality teams.

Saban and Pelini have “coached ’em up” a little more than we have I guess.

It was a week after hurricane Ike came through houston; very few places had power, much less cable; but I found a run-down sports bar in town that had both, and was playing the CU game. I’ve never had more fun cheering all by myself as that game.

14th 2006 when CU beat Texas Tech, Hawkins first win. Besides the Montana State game we actually played pretty well that season considering Jackson was the QB. Choked away the Georgia game, played hard against Baylor etc. But after we won this game I thought it was hilarious that the front page of the sports section of the Daily Camera had Bernard being hoisted up and signaling that we were #1.

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The thing about the OU game, for me at least, is that my most vivd memory is of the WR dropping the ball, repeatedly, for no reason. I forget if it was Iglesias or Kelly (I think Iglesias), but he dropped multiple GIANT catches. At least in the Nebraska game we won because we played well (offensively at least). Same w/ the UGA game- we won because AJ Green got cramps.

Plus, it was the second NU head coaching scalp to come from a CU result. SMILE!

I also would have considered the first CSU win with the Chase McBride punt return. It wasn’t a great win, but it was a hell of a lot of fun

What was his standout loss?

There’s A LOT to choose from…