Our first 3 Big 12 games were all at home, and we won them all.
Our next 5 games after that 6-1 start:
at #2 OU: cold rain, we had a punt blocked for a touchdown on our very first series, all downhill... if the whether were warmer and drier, probably still a loss but maybe not such a nutcrunch
at #7 Texas: again cold rain, but much more competitive (led 10-7 at halftime), offense stalled frequently in the second half
vs Missouri: last game we'd win all year, made us bowl eligible; Wallace set school record with 493 total yards; game was still much, much closer than it probably should have been; the defense definitely lost the confidence they showed earlier in the year
at #12 Kansas State: we were somehow still ranked at #21, but nobody showed up. Wallace threw back-to-back pick-sixes in the third quarter.
at #17 Colorado: much more competitive, against the team that won the North; had a chance to tie the game in the 4th quarter but Wallace fumbled and CU returned it for a touchdown to put it away.
UConn... I think everyone had just given up on the season; they showed up expecting to win because UConn had just moved to D-1; nobody really cared when we fell apart.
Boise... believe we had the lead at halftime, but we were playing them on their own field for a "bowl" game
Basically it was a combination of playing much better competition than we had previously (mostly on the road) and us playing much worse.