It’s a rivalry renewed this Saturday when the Colorado Buffaloes (1-0, 0-0 Pac-12) head to Lincoln to take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers (0-0, Big Ten) in week two of the 2018 college football schedule. Nebraska and Colorado faced each other regularly over the past 80 years. It wasn’t until Colorado joined the Big Seven conference in 1948 that both schools carried out a yearly affair. That arrangement lasted until both teams realigned with their current respective conferences from the Big 12 in 2012.
The first meeting between Fred Folsom’s ‘no name’ Colorado team and the Nebraska Bugeaters came 120 years ago on Nov.