DENVER — Finish.
If there’s been one overriding, overarching point of emphasis for the Colorado Buffaloes since the day fall camp began, it’s been that: finish.
Finish every play, every quarter and every game. It’s what the Buffs didn’t do last year on too many occasions, a season in which they allowed fourth-quarter leads to melt away in five different games.
But of all those painful losses — including a pair of double-overtime defeats in Pac-12 play — none may have stuck with the Buffs more than a 31-17 loss to in-state rival Colorado State, a game Colorado led 17-7 in the third quarter and 17-14 in the fourth.