The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Colorado game notes
10.04.2008 | Football
Oct. 4, 2008
No. 5/5 Texas 38, Colorado 14
October 4, 2008
Folsom Field - Boulder, Colo.
TEAM NOTES
- With the win, Mack Brown racked up his 194th career victory. He moved into a tie for 22nd place with Howard Jones on the all-time wins list for the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision. Jones won 194 games in 29 years at Syracuse, Yale, Ohio State, Iowa, Duke and USC.
- Texas opened the season with five straight wins for the third time in Mack Brown's tenure.
- Texas opened Big 12 play with a victory for the 10th time in Mack Brown's 11 seasons at Texas and is 3-0 in Big 12 road openers during that stretch.
- Texas has taken a 10-7 lead in the series with Colorado and has won six of the last seven, including four straight.
- Texas has scored 236 points over its first five games, the most for Texas since 1915 (281).
- The Texas defense has held its opponent to 14 points or less in the first five games of a season for the first time since 1991.
- Texas is outscoring opponents 38-9 in the first quarter this season.
- Texas has not allowed a TD in the first quarter this season.
- Texas is outscoring opponents 132-29 in the first half this season.
- Texas has produced at least 400 yards of total offense in 64 of its last 95 games. The Longhorns are 87-2 when recording more than 400 yards of total offense in the Mack Brown era.
- With 11 receptions, Colt McCoy and Quan Cosby have tied the UT record for completions between a QB and a WR with 131, matching the number between Chris Simms and Roy Williams (2000-02). McCoy and Cosby passed Major Applewhite and Kwame Cavil's 124 completions (1998-99).
Mack Brown ERA MARKS
- UT is now 92-3 when outrushing its opponent.
- UT is now 80-13 when outpassing its opponent.
- UT is now 53-7 when passing for more than 250 yards.
- UT is now 79-7 when scoring first.
- UT is now 104-12 when scoring more than 20 points.
- UT is 90-7 when leading at halftime.
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
Rashad Bobino
- Bobino's fumble recovery in the fourth quarter was his first of the season and the third of his career.
Quan Cosby
- Cosby caught a pass in his 36th consecutive game.
- With 11 receptions, Colt McCoy and Quan Cosby have tied the UT record for completions between a QB and a WR with 131, matching the number between Chris Simms and Roy Williams (2000-02). McCoy and Cosby passed Major Applewhite and Kwame Cavil's 124 completions (1998-99).
Cody Johnson
- Johnson extended his UT freshman running back record by rushing for a TD in each of his first five games.
- With two rushing TDs, Johnson now has six on the season.
Hunter Lawrence
- Lawrence's 46-yard field goal was the longest of his career. He remained perfect on the season, making his only field goal and all five of his PAT attempts. He is now 4-of-4 on field goals and 24-of-24 on PATs this season.
Colt McCoy
- McCoy moved his career record as a starter to 25-6. He is now tied with James Brown (25-13-1) and Peter Gardere (25-16) for fifth place on the UT all-time list.
- McCoy increased his UT career TD pass record to 67 with two TD passes in the game. He now has 16 on the season.
- McCoy's 67 career passing TDs are tied with Major Applewhite for the most thrown by a Texas QB. Officially, Applewhite tallied 62 TDs during his career, but if you included bowl games, he posted 67 TD passes.
- With 262 passing yards, McCoy moved into fourth on UT's all-time passing list with 7,153 yards, moving ahead of Chris Simms (7,097, 1999-2002).
- With 301 total yards, McCoy moved into second on UT's all-time list with 8,132 (7,153p/979r), passing James Brown (8,049, 7,638p/411r, 1994-97) and Major Applewhite (8,059, 8,353p/-294r, 1998-2001). McCoy trails only Vince Young, who posted 9,167 total yards (6,040p/3,127r) from 2003-05.
Chris Ogbonnaya
- Ogbonnaya's 111 receiving yards in the first half are the most in UT history by a running back in a half.
- Ogbonnaya's 116 receiving yards are the second-most in a game by a running back in UT history (120, Eric Metcalf, vs. Rice, 1985).
- Ogbonnaya's 65-yard TD reception in the first quarter was the longest of his career, bettering his 46-yard TD reception against Rice earlier this season.
- The 65-yard reception was the seventh-longest by a running back in UT history.
- Ogbonnaya's receiving TD was the third of his career. All three have come this season.
- Ogbonnaya also recorded a 23-yard reception.
- Playing primarily as UT's third-down back, Ogbonnaya entered the Colorado game with seven carries for 22 yards on the season. He tallied nine carries for 71 yards and a TD.
- Ogbonnaya set single-game career highs in both carries (nine) and rushing yards (71). His previous highs were seven carries against UCF (2007) and Sam Houston State (2006) and 33 yards against Oklahoma State (2006).
- Ogbonnaya's 13-yard TD run late in the second quarter was his first of the season and the fifth of his career.
- Ogbonnaya's 51-yard run in the third quarter was the longest of his career, bettering a 26-yard run against Oklahoma State in 2006.
Jordan Shipley
- Shipley has now caught at least one TD pass in all five games this season.
- With his TD reception, Shipley tied Herkie Walls (1982) for third on UT's all-time list of consecutive games with a TD reception at five.
- Shipley's 16-yard TD reception in the first quarter was his seventh of the season and the 16th of his career.
- Shipley is now tied for third on UT's all-time TD receptions list with 16 (B.J. Johnson, 200-03; Mike Adams, 1992-96).
Aaron Williams
- Williams' forced fumble in the fourth quarter was the first of his career. He has now caused a turnover in two consecutive games after returning an INT 81 yards for a TD against Arkansas.
Attendance: 53,927 - first Colorado sellout since their final home game of 2005
Game Captains: #6 Quan Cosby, #2 Sergio Kindle, #3 Chris Ogbonnaya, #13 Ryan Palmer
Coin Toss: Colorado won the toss and elected to receive. Texas elected to defend the North End Zone.