The University of Colorado football team plays college football as a member of the North Division of the Big 12 Conference. They play home games at Folsom Field on their campus in Boulder, which is named for their former head coach, Fred Folsom. The school shared the 1990 national championship with Georgia Tech.http://www.cubuffs.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=600&SPID=255&SPSID=21822 The only Heisman Trophy winner in school history is Rashaan Salaam in 1994.http://timelines.com/1994/12/13/rashaan-salaam-wins-heisman-trophy

In 2010, Colorado made the decision to switch conferences from the Big 12 Conference to the Pac-10 Conference. Colorado is one of two teams moving to the Pac-10, joining the University of Utah. The move is set to tentatively begin in the fall of 2012 for football.http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5277805

The Colorado Buffaloes' football team won their first National Championship during the 1990 season. The championship is a shared title, Colorado was voted the national champion by the Associated Press while the UPI voted for Georgia Tech as the national champion.http://cfreference.net/cfr/poll.s?id=2&season=1990 Colorado finished the season with an 11-1-1 record. Their only loss came against the University of Illinois, 22-22 in the third game of the season. The team won their last nine games in a row, earning a spot in the Orange Bowl against Notre Dame.http://cfreference.net/cfr/school.s?id=347&season=1990 The Buffaloes beat the Fighting Irish, 10-9, which would boost them to their number one AP ranking.