CU football and basketball add to their schedules near and far

The Colorado Buffaloes men’s basketball program has added a marquee tournament to their schedule for 2016, while the football team has added a marquee opponent – albeit for a much later date.

According to the university, the men’s basketball team will join Texas, Notre Dame and Northwestern in the 2016 Legends Classic, Nov. 21-22, 2016, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The four teams in the “Championship Rounds” will each host a pair of regional round games on campus before facing off in Brooklyn, similar to the format Colorado played in this past season with the Las Vegas Classic. All four games at the Barclays Center will be televised on one of the ESPN networks.

Eastern Washington, Bryant, Louisiana Monroe and Seattle will round out the eight-team field. The complete schedule for the Legends Classic will be announced at a later date.

Reason would suggest that the Buffs will host one of those four smaller schools in Boulder before departing for New York.

On the gridiron, the university announced that Colorado has agreed to a home-and-home with Georgia Tech for the 2025 and 2026 seasons.

Colorado and Georgia Tech, the national champions in the two largest polls in 1990 will finally meet on the gridiron for the first time.

The first game will be in Boulder on Aug. 30, 2025 at Folsom Field, with the return trip by the Buffaloes to Atlanta and Bobby Dodd Stadium on Sept. 5, 2026.

In 1990, Colorado was 11-1-1 and was just the second program, along with the 1982 Penn State team, to win a national championship playing the nation’s toughest schedule; the Buffs were crowned Associated Press champions. In that poll, CU received 39 of 60 first place votes (Tech had 20), and CU outpointed the Yellow Jackets by 34 points. But Georgia Tech, 11-0-1, won the UPI Coaches balloting, gathering 30 of 59 first place votes (CU had 27) and had an 847-846 edge in points to win a share of the title.

“It’s important for us to play games in parts of the country where we can’t get to very often for our alumni bases, and we have a good one in Georgia,” CU athletic director Rick George said via the university. “It will be a terrific high profile series, and I am sure some fans will use it to settle the bragging rights back to 1990.”