A Texas Tech fan claims Colorado left playbook pages at a hotel bar, with videos appearing to match the Buffaloes’ opening drive in a 29-7 loss.
A Red Raiders supporter posting as VivaTerlingua said a group of fans found a thick set of pages at the bar inside the hotel where Colorado was reportedly staying ahead of the matchup. He put the claim on On3’s Inside The Double T message board on Friday and framed it as the real Colorado playbook.
OutKick reported the post and the social media trail that followed, including videos that posters said lined up with plays Colorado called early against Texas Tech.
VivaTerlingua did not drop photos in the board message itself. He still left little doubt about what he thought he was holding.
He wrote:
"OK I’m not posting pics of it but a bunch of us are in the Colorado team hotel at the bar and we found a 25 page or so playbook that I would bet large amounts of money on is the actual CU playbook"
He added that the pages included opening plays, red zone information, and Texas Tech tendencies.
"It’s got opening plays, red zone info, our tendencies, etc., etc."
A person identified only as a “buddy” later shared Instagram videos of different pages. Those clips, as described in the reporting, appeared to show the same plays Colorado ran early in the game.
Early Sunday morning, an unnamed X user posted a video of a play sheet. The first six plays from Colorado’s offense appeared to match what was on the pages.
None of that material came with independent team or league authentication. The hotel name was not given. And there was no evidence Texas Tech’s staff received the pages or used them.
The claim still spread for an obvious reason. A visiting team’s scripted opening material is not supposed to sit on a bar table for rival fans to find.
The game at Folsom Field in Boulder did not stay competitive for long. Colorado scored on the opening drive. After that, Texas Tech’s defense took over.
The Buffaloes threw four interceptions in the second half alone. Texas Tech won 29-7 and moved to 5-0. Colorado fell to 2-3.
Over their last three games combined, the Buffaloes had been outscored 93-27. Head coach Deion Sanders and the program were already dealing with a rough stretch before the hotel-bar story landed on message boards and social feeds.
Photo captions tied to the game action listed players including Texas Tech’s Will Hammond and J’Koby Williams and Colorado’s Isaac Wilson at Folsom Field.
The viral claim is simple to understand and hard to close. Fans said they found roughly 25 pages. Clips later appeared to track with Colorado’s early calls. The final score was a rout.
What remains unproven is just as important. No named Colorado staffer was shown leaving the pages. No official body authenticated them. No reporting showed the Red Raiders’ coaches working from a found script.
In modern college football, game plans are treated like proprietary work product. Leaving that kind of packet in a public hotel bar, if that is what happened, is a basic security failure. Programs that preach detail cannot shrug off loose paper in the one place rival fans are most likely to gather.
Texas Tech did not need a gift to look like the sharper outfit on the field. Colorado’s second-half turnovers and recent scoring drought already told that story. A playbook claim only made the weekend harder to defend.
When a team is already leaking points by the dozen, it cannot also look careless with the pages that are supposed to stop the bleeding.
