BOULDER – For one hopeful quarter Saturday afternoon, Colorado went toe-to-toe with No. 9 Stanford. Unfortunately for the outmanned Buffaloes, quarterly results don’t mean much to college football’s bottom line.
Behind Heisman Trophy candidate Christian McCaffrey, the powerful Cardinal roared past a 7-7 first-quarter tie with 21 second-quarter points and buried the Buffs 42-10 at Folsom Field.
CU (4-6, 1-5) lost its 21st consecutive game to a ranked opponent while Stanford (8-1, 7-0) won for the eighth consecutive time – the school’s longest winning streak since 2012. Stanford leads the series with CU 6-3 and has won the last three meetings by a combined score of 138-17.