1. Who has won most total games in the series?
CU has, by far, won the most total games. The Buffs’ have gone 59-19-2 in the Rocky Mountain Showdown’s 80-game history.
(Nick Bernal, Graduate Assistant Sports Information Director at Colorado)

2. Why is the venue changing for this series?
The Colorado-Colorado State game will be played in Boulder in 2009 because the Buffs needed a sixth home game for their schedule. Both teams are in a contract that lasts until 2010 that allots certain games for each team to consider “home games.” The teams can decide to play those games either on their own turf or at Invesco Field. Colorado State has opted to play the 2010 game in Fort Collins.
(David Plati, Sports Information Director at Colorado)

3. How many students from each school were in attendance for the game?
The stadium didn’t record attendance according to team, but 69,619 fans nearly filled Invesco Field to its capacity of 76,125 for this year’s game. According to a friend in attendance, Colorado fans appeared to outnumber Colorado State fans, but no one knows for sure.
(Nick Bernal, Graduate Assistant Sports Information Director at Colorado; Georgia Hamilburg, CU Student that went to the game)

4. What negative events (if any) occurred in the last five years during tailgating gatherings?
For the 2008 game, an unnamed Invesco Field employee said that there were at least 15 ejections prior to the start of the game. The only alcohol served inside Invesco was in clubs, suites, and box seats.
(Invesco Field main information line)

5. According to Invesco Field security, which tailgating crowds are more likely to cause problems: professional football crowds or college football crowds?
Which crowd is most likely to cause problems? According to Lance Rankin, a security guard from Stadium Management Company (the company who runs security at Invesco Field), “that’s easy. The CSU-CU game is the most difficult event of the year.” According to Rankin, the 2008 game was better than the past two years. He assumes each of the schools talked to the students about celebrating the game respectfully (this is true; all CU students did get an email about behaving at the game). Rankin thought somewhere between 40-60 students got ejected from the game this year. No alumni got too crazy? “Nope – it was all drunken students.”
(Lance Rankin, Stadium Management Company)