Colorado's upset win over TCU was historical from an underdog perspective

Buffs weren't expected to match last year's win total this early

Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports

The Colorado Buffaloes and Deion Sanders shocked the world by rolling into Fort Worth and coming out with a 45-42 win. Everybody had an opinion about where CU would be after week one, knowing they were three-score underdogs, according to the major sportsbooks. Well, I think they all got their answers.

The win for Coach Prime's Colorado debut marked the fourth-biggest upset against the spread in school history (dating to the mid-1950s, when point spreads started to regularly appear in newspapers), according to CU athletics GOAT associate AD/SID Dave Plati.

It was perhaps CU’s biggest upset to date given the amount of naysayers who lined up to count the Buffs out. Here's a list of the top eleven biggest upsets against the spread that went in CU's favor.

Sept. 29, 2007 OKLAHOMA 22 W, 27-24

Nov. 25, 2011 at Utah 22 W, 17-14

Sept. 22, 2012 at Washington State 21 W, 35-34

Sept. 2, 2023 at TCU 20½ W, 45-42

Oct. 25, 1986 NEBRASKA 17½ W, 20-10

Oct. 21, 1972 OKLAHOMA 16 W, 20-14

Oct. 15, 2022 CALIFORNIA (OT) 15½ W, 20-13

Nov. 16, 1974 at Oklahoma State 14 W, 37-20

Nov. 1, 1980 IOWA STATE 14 W, 17-9

Sept. 28, 1985 at Arizona 14 W, 14-13

Nov. 23, 2019 WASHINGTON 14 W, 20-14

Colorado looks to do it again next week. A renewed rivalry at home with Nebraska after the Huskers suffered a last-second loss to Minnesota on Thursday night.