As the clock struck midnight, long after there was no doubt the Colorado Buffaloes would win the Rocky Mountain Showdown 52-31, Colorado State coach Mike Bobo began calling three consecutive timeouts on three consecutive plays, like a petulant child who stamps his feet and refuses to accept it’s time for bed.
“I tell our team: ‘We’re going to play, no matter what.’ That’s the bottom line,” said Bobo, explaining why he repeatedly stopped the game clock late in the fourth quarter, as a handful of die-hards that remained in the original crowd of 66,997 booed him.