Flashback: Revisiting Colorado’s 2001 Season

November 13, 2026 | Football

The Buffaloes won the Big 12 title in impressive fashion

This year marks the 25th anniversary of CU's Big 12 Conference Championship and Fiesta Bowl team in 2001, several members have returned to Boulder this weekend to reminisce and celebrate that special season together once again and be honored during tonight's game against Houston (8:15 p.m., ESPN).

Head coach Gary Barnett's Buffaloes finished 10-3, won the Big 12 championship and finished the season as the No. 9 team nation in both the Associated Press and coaches polls. Over the course of the season the program bonded with several members of a New York City fire department (FDNY Engine 1, Ladder Company 24)…