Published: Sept. 1, 2015 By

Eric Gershon

Eric Gershon

We’ll find no new glory by resting on our laurels. But every so often it’s worth pausing to draw inspiration from triumphs past and to appreciate the people who made them happen.

Twenty-five years ago this fall the CU-Boulder football team was marching into the NCAA history books. The season that began with a tie against Tennessee culminated grandly in a flawless conference record, a dramatic Orange Bowl victory and a number-one national ranking. In this issue writer Bill Hathaway (Jour’80) recounts the remarkable story of that glorious season.

You’ll also meet a 21st-century buffalo rancher, the founder of the world’s largest doggie daycare franchise and a nuclear law expert who tickled Ronald Reagan’s funny bone, among other extraordinary Buffs.

Eric Gershon