The Buffs are walking in rarefied air now, and it smells of rotten eggs. It’s been 40 years since a Colorado football team opened a season 5-0 and didn’t make a bowl game, and the Buffaloes of present — 5-4 and losers of four straight after a 42-34 defeat at Arizona late Friday night — keep inching ever closer to joining the 1978 bunch on the dais of ignominy.
Those were the days, kids: Green Machines, Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, Jaws 2, and the late Bill Mallory, whose ‘78 Buffs smoked Oregon, Miami, San Jose State, Northwestern and Kansas to rise as high as No.