Counting their 30-3 loss last week to Nebraska that — sadly for the Buffs — wasn’t enough to disqualify them from this game, they have been outscored 100-6 the last two weeks. This debacle comes a year after their 42-3 loss to Oklahoma in the title game. On Saturday, CU trailed 42-3 at halftime.

“A pretty numbing game,” coach Gary Barnett called it.

It would have been completely laughable had CU quarterback Joel Klatt not taken a vicious, helmet-to-chin hit from linebacker Drew Kelson in the third quarter that left Klatt lying motionless in the end zone for a few, anxious moments.

Klatt (14-for-24, 100 yards) was diagnosed with a concussion. He was able to stagger off the field, though, and can consider himself lucky if he doesn’t remember much of this one.

Asked if he was surprised to see his opponent blitzing while leading by 50, at first Barnett demurred.

Later, though, he said, “I’m surprised we lost the game 70-3, let’s say that.”

The Longhorns didn’t expect that kind of score, either. But they rolled it up, and now they have a few days to relax and feel good about themselves.

Then, it’s on to bigger business.

Unlike last season, when Brown practically had to beg for an at-large BCS berth and a spot in the Rose Bowl, this Pasadena trip is undeniably well deserved.

The Longhorns won their 12 games by an average score of 50-14. They scored 40 points 11 times, 50 seven times, 60 four times and hit 70 in this one for the first time since 1996.

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Led by Huff and lineman Rod Wright, the defense stayed in the top 10 in the country through most of the season.

Special teams, meanwhile, was solid all year and never more so than Saturday, when the ’Horns blocked a field goal, scored a touchdown off a blocked punt and also got a 54-yard kickoff return from Ramonce Taylor after Colorado’s lone score.

The kicking game was supposed to be Colorado’s single edge in this game, but the ’Horns took that away, too — one of many indisputable signs that they are, at the least, one of the country’s two best teams.

Or maybe the best.

“Seeing us every day in practice, the chemistry and the way the team is, I feel we are,” Huff said.

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