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Colorado Football Team Accidentally Leaked Its Own Playbook To Texas Tech Fans At Hotel Before Blowout Loss

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Colorado lost to Texas Tech in blowout fashion on Saturday. However, the lopsided loss could’ve been a lot worse if the Red Raiders had access to the Buffaloes’ playbook, which a college football staffer accidentally left behind at the team hotel.

Given what happened in the first half, it doesn’t look like the fans who found the playbook were able to get it to the team in time.

The college football game probably would’ve looked a lot different if the visitors knew what play was coming when. Maybe they did— but they couldn’t make a stop so I don’t think so.

Texas Tech could not pull away during the first half.

The visiting Red Raiders were favored by 13.5 points over the Buffaloes on Saturday. The No. 12-ranked team in the country was expected to handle a floundering Colorado side with relative ease.

That was not the case during the first half. Texas Tech scored only three points during the first quarter and trailed 7-3 at halftime.

The script completely flipped during the second half. Isaac Wilson threw three interceptions on back-to-back-to-back offensive drives, including the shortest pick-six of all-time and the Red Raiders started to pull away.

If you were to look at the box score and did not see Wilson’s interceptions, you might actually think the Buffaloes won the game. They finished with more yards, more first downs, more conversions on third and fourth down, more time of possession, the same amount of punts and less sacks allowed.

And yet, Colorado still lost to Texas Tech by a final score of 29-7. It could’ve been a lot worse…

Colorado left its playbook in the team hotel.

A Texas Tech fan posted on the RedRaiderSports.com message board on the Friday night before the game. The username VivaTerlingua posted the following message:

“OK I’m not posting pics of it but a bunch of us are in the Colorado team hotel at the bar and we found a 25 page or so playbook that I would bet large amounts of money on is the actual CU playbook. It’s got opening plays, red zone info, our tendencies, etc. etc. Seriously, how can we get this to the Texas Tech team? Does anybody know what hotel they’re staying at?”

Not too long after the clock expired on Saturday, a user by the name of ‘Jody S. Laughter’ (@Lubbockist) posted a video on X. It showed each of the offensive plays listed in the playbook that was found at the team hotel synced to the game. The playbook was real. It had the first six plays of the first half and the first two plays of the second half.

Given how things went for the Red Raiders in the first half, I am not sure that they received their opponent’s playbook from their fans prior to kickoff. They could not stop the Buffaloes on their first drive of the game which, I assume they would be able to do if they knew exactly what play was coming next.

With that being said, Texas Tech did intercept Colorado on a failed reverse pass on the third play of the second half. Maybe it knew to watch for the trick play? I don’t think so but I cannot say for certain. The Buffaloes got extremely lucky that their playbook (probably) did not end up in the hands of the Red Raiders but it didn’t matter anyway because they still lost!