With 6:45 left and CU trailing by three, the Buffs called a timeout. CU came out of a break in the action punting. BYU burned 4:39 of what was left, Buffs QB Kaidon Salter threw a pick with 50 seconds to go, and \u2026 that was pretty much that. Again.<\/p>\n
Could someone please get Coach Prime a timeout coach? A time manager? Someone who\u2019ll do the math in real time?<\/p>\n
Imagine where this CU season could be if the Buffs (2-3, 0-2 Big 12) learned how to finish games as well as they\u2019ve been starting them.<\/p>\n
Mind you, that won\u2019t change much while the QB Keeper is still CU\u2019s killer. At some point, the Buffs are going to make an opposing signal-caller earn it on the ground. Although Heaven only knows when.<\/p>\n
BYU freshman QB Bear Bachmeier was last seen running down 10th Street, untouched, late Saturday night. This was after the Cougars signal-caller torched CU for 98 yards on 15 carries while completing 19 of 27 throws.<\/p>\n
You can see the pattern forming from 5,360 feet up. Tech QB Haynes King ran for 156 yards and three touchdowns at Folsom. Houston signal-caller Conner Weigman rushed for 83 and two scores vs. the Buffs in Texas. Take away two kneel-downs for minus-6 yards that ate clock at the very end and Bachmeier rambled for 104.<\/p>\n
The latter looked like a baby Tebow out there half the time, only without the funky arm action. At 6-foot-2 and 220 pounds, Bachmeier shifts to escape mode in about half a second, always leaning forward, legs always churning.<\/p>\n
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Colorado defensive tackle Alexander McPherson, right, tackles BYU quarterback Bear Bachmeier, left, at Folsom Field in Boulder on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. (Matthew Jonas\/Staff Photographer)<\/p>\n
At one point late in the third quarter, the Cougars QB escaped what looked like about three Buffs defenders on second-and-10 at the CU 12, chugging and dancing what should\u2019ve been a 3-yard loss into an 8-yard gain.<\/p>\n
Two plays later, on fourth-and-2 at the Buffs\u2019 4, Bachmeier found wideout Chase Roberts for a short toss in the end zone to give BYU its first lead of the night, 16-14 \u2014 a run of three straight unanswered scores.<\/p>\n
He wasn\u2019t done. Down 21-17, Bachmeier lined up on third-and-17 at his 35 with 52 seconds left in the third stanza. The frosh tucked, zoomed and slid for 16 yards, largely on his own. BYU converted the fourth-and-1, extending the drive and eventually capping it on a a 32-yard jet sweep for the game-winning score.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat play,\u201d CU safety Tawfiq Byard said, \u201cis killing me right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t look at the October fight card, dude. Iowa State quarterback Rocco Becht just ran for three touchdowns against Arizona. Utah\u2019s got a QB who carries it 11 times per tilt. To start November, Wildcats QB Noah Fifita was responsible for as many rushing scores (three) going into the weekend as all of the Buffs\u2019 tailbacks had put up combined.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a shame, too, given how CU began the evening with its collective hair on fire. And that might\u2019ve sold their tempo short \u2014 the Buffs raged as if someone had made them all watch a play-by-play of last December\u2019s Alamo Bowl on a 10-hour loop<\/a>. With no bathroom breaks.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had \u2019em,\u201d Byard groused. \u201cWe had \u2019em.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Colorado head coach Deion Sanders, front, confers with defensive coordinator Robert Livingston late in the second half of an NCAA college football game against Brigham Young Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)<\/p>\n