Welcome to a notes and comment column in its 19th year, penned by CU Associate Athletic Director David Plati, who yesterday began his 36th year as the Buffaloes' director of sports information.
Plati-'Tudes No. 110 ... This is now the ninth Pac-12 Football Media Day the Buffaloes have participated in; finished last in the summer poll in the South Division 35 voters; 46 points: 11 fifth place votes, 24 sixth-place). Okay, experts, we will surprise some folks this year, I am convinced … It's the 150th anniversary of the first college football game (1869; Princeton-Rutgers); the final score was Rutgers Queensmen 6, New Jersey Tigers 4 (yes, Princeton was known as the College of New Jersey back then) … Pac-12 schools added to its record count of NCAA Championships, claiming 14 titles in 2018-19, including CU's women's cross country title.