Saturday's meeting at Kyle Field will only be the 8th all-time match-up between Texas A&M and Colorado. Though it is a small sample size, Colorado has owned this match-up, winning 5 of the previous 7 contests.

Let's take a look at some of the previous 7 contests:

23-Oct-2004          29-26 (OT) Texas A&M
Reggie McNeal paced the Aggies as he accounted for 382 yards of total offense. However, the CU defense got stops when they needed them to hold the Aggies to 3 FGs in regulation and another in overtime. The Aggies and Buffs made some spectular plays, led by their respective running backs, Courtney Lewis and Bobby Purify, but there was no doubt about the play of the game. After the Aggies added a FG in OT, Lee Foliaki stripped Purify and recovered the fumble at the bottom of the pile to secure the win and send Kyle Field into an absolute frenzy.

8-Oct-2005          41-20 Colorado
This game started off well for the Aggies and suddenly went horribly downhill. On the second play from scrimmage, Reggie McNeal hit a streaking DeQwan Mobley. Mobley was passed all the CU defenders and looked to be able to walk into the endzone. Then inexplicably, he fumbled the ball, untouched, and CU recovered. Now it may not have made a difference in the outcome, considering CU was up 41-6 in the 4th quarter, but it sure did kill any kind of momentum the Aggies would ever have in the game. The Aggie defense was torched by a CU offense that was very average the rest of the year. CU QB Joel Klatt threw for 398 yards and 3 TDs and the ground game pounded out another 158 yards to pace the Buffs.

CU TE Joe Klopfenstein made what I consider the biggest indictment I've heard about our defense the last 6-7 years.

"There were a few times where I'd catch the ball, turn around and expect to get hit, but there was no one there," Klopfenstein said.

23-Sept-1995          29-21 Colorado
The biggest match-up between Texas A&M and Colorado was the FIRST time they ever met. The Aggies went in to Boulder as the 3rd ranked team in the country and Colorado was close behind ranked 7th. A&M QB Corey Pullig, maybe the most underrated QB in Aggie history, has a pass dropped by an Aggie WR which would have been a sure touchdown. Another pass of Pulig's slipped through a WR's hands and into those of a Buffalo to produce Pullig's only INT of the game. That seaon's A&M squad really never recovered from that devastating defeat.

Let's start to turn around this match-up this weekend at Kyle.

gig 'em!