BOULDER — Joel Klatt is one of the most productive and successful quarterbacks in Colorado history.
Klatt, now the lead college football analyst for Fox Sports, is still among CU's all-time leaders in passing yards (7,375) and touchdown passes (44). A three-year starter, he led the Buffs to two division titles (Big 12 North) and two consecutive bowl appearances in 2004 and 2005 — still the last time the Buffs played in a bowl in consecutive seasons.
But Klatt also knows what it is like to be benched. Midway through his junior season in Boulder, after consecutive losses in which the Buffs scored just 23 points combined, then-head coach Gary Barnett changed starters in the sixth game of the season, inserting James Cox into the lineup.