![]() The defense took over on both sides, neither team able to do much. ISU tied the game with 3:31 left in the quarter, and then the teams remained deadlocked with the ISU crowd once again coming alive. The second half started much like the first whatever adjustments the CU coaches made at halftime showed up right away, with the Buffs using 11 plays to march 70 yards, culminated with an 11-yard TD pass from Ken Johnson to Willie Nichols for a 14-7 lead (for some reason, the play-by-play typist for Iowa State logged it in as "Johnson back-passes complete to Nichols in the end zone" … a back-pass apparently was when the QB dropped back to pass - doesn't that happen on almost every pass play when not in a shotgun, which may not have yet been conceived in 1971?). The teams went into the half without many yards on offense, CU owning a 176-155 edge in yards. ![]() CU was stymied a bit on offense, with only one of its last six possessions of the half with plays in ISU territory – on a series that started at the ISU 40 after a shanked punt. In the meantime, Iowa State tied the game early in the second quarter on a halfback option pass that covered 28 yards from George Amundson to Willie Jones it was the third time ISU called that specific play on the year but the first time it worked. However, the potent CU offense wouldn't light up the scoreboard again for almost 29 minutes. CU did have to convert four times on third down, the last time when Charlie Davis ran it in for touchdown from 7 yards out Dean's PAT kick made it 7-0. But the Buffs quieted the crowd quickly with a 14-play, 75-yard drive that ate up six-and-a-half minutes. Iowa State came out fired up, with the second-largest home crowd in its history (nearly 32,000) at the time in the stands at Clyde Williams Field (Jack Trice Stadium opened in 1975). The Buffs got an insurance score on an 8-yard run by Cliff Branch with 42 seconds remaining which accounted for the 24-14 final score. Dean made a 37-yard field goal with 6:42 left in the game. Though I couldn't find any real reference to that and though the Cyclones never led, this was a 7-7 game at halftime and a 14-all affair until J.B. 2 Oklahoma the next Saturday likely was on its collective minds. CU was heavily favored, but a game at No. The second-largest crowd in ISU history at the time (32,000) was on hand for the game, which featured unseasonably cool temperatures (low 50s) with winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour. It was Parent's Day for the 3-0 Cyclones, who wanted a piece of the Buffs after losing 61-10 the previous year in Boulder. 5 national ranking – its third highest in history at that point (the '67 team was No. Now 4-0 for just the third time since 1958, Colorado traveled to Iowa State with a No.
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