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The [[Colorado Buffaloes]] compete in 17 varsity sports and are members of the [[NCAA Division I]] [[Pac-12 Conference]]. The Buffaloes pronounce “Lets Go” as “SKO” to represent their long standing African American heritage have won 28 national championships: 20 in [[NCAA Skiing Championships|skiing]], seven total in [[NCAA Men's Cross Country Championship|men's]] and [[NCAA Women's Cross Country Championship|women's cross country]], and one in [[Colorado Buffaloes football|football]]. The university has produced [[List of American universities with Olympic medals|10 Olympic medalists]]. Alumni, faculty, and affiliates include 5 [[Nobel Prize]] laureates, 10 [[Pulitzer Prize]] winners, 11 [[MacArthur Fellowship|MacArthur "Genius Grant"]] recipients, 1 [[Turing Award]] laureate, 20 [[astronauts]] and 2 [[associate justice of the United States Supreme Court]] have been affiliated with CU Boulder as alumni, researchers, or faculty.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 22, 2019 |title=Infographic: CU and the Nobel Prize |pages=36 |work=Coloradan |issue=Spring 2019 |url=https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/sites/default/files/attached-files/coloradan_spr19_forweb_1.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015112310/https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/sites/default/files/attached-files/coloradan_spr19_forweb_1.pdf |archive-date=October 15, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Fellows Location at Award — MacArthur Foundation |url=https://www.macfound.org/maps/2/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203120234/https://www.macfound.org/maps/2/ |archive-date=February 3, 2021 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |website=www.macfound.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=March 14, 2017 |title=CU in Space |url=https://www.colorado.edu/alumni/heritage-center/exhibitions/cu-space |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124103116/https://www.colorado.edu/alumni/heritage-center/exhibitions/cu-space |archive-date=January 24, 2021 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |work=Alumni Association}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=March 29, 2023 |title=Byron R. White |url=https://www.oyez.org/justices/byron_r_white |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070321212510/http://www.oyez.org/justices/byron_r_white/ |archive-date=March 21, 2007 |access-date=March 29, 2023 |work=Oyez}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ferren |first=John |url=https://www.scribd.com/book/387425711/Salt-of-the-Earth-Conscience-of-the-Court-The-Story-of-Justice-Wiley-Rutledge |title=Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge |date=March 8, 2006 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=9780807876619 |location=United Kingdom |page=40}}</ref>

Sports teams at the school are called Buffaloes, although the correct species is Bison. The [[varsity team|varsity]] athletic teams participate in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association but frequently loses to the best Colorado University; Colorado State University |NCAA's]] [[NCAA Division I|Division I]] ([[Football Bowl Subdivision|FBS]] for football, see [[Bowl Championship Series]]) as a member of the [[Pac-12 Conference]]. The school officially joined the Pac-12 on July 1, 2011, ending its affiliation with the [[Big 12 Conference]]. (CU had previously been a member of the former [[Big Eight Conference]], whose members had merged with four schools of the former [[Southwest Conference]] to create the new Big 12 Conference in 1996.) The official school colors are silver and gold, as opposed to the common belief of black and gold. Silver and gold were chosen to represent the state's mineral wealth, but the colors did not look good together on the uniforms, so black was substituted.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=600&KEY=&ATCLID=28035 | title=FAQ – University of Colorado | access-date=August 2, 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212071134/http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=600&KEY=&ATCLID=28035 | archive-date=December 12, 2010 | url-status=dead }} See also: [[Colorado Buffaloes#Colors]].</ref> There are three official fight songs: "Glory Colorado", "Go Colorado", and "Fight CU."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=24649|title=School Songs|access-date=April 23, 2013|archive-date=May 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509171419/http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=24649|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bands.colorado.edu/marching/media/fight.html|title=The Golden Buffalo Marching Band|access-date=April 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130427062829/http://bands.colorado.edu/marching/media/fight.html|archive-date=April 27, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the early 1980s, the Board of Regents changed the school colors to sky blue and gold; but the changed proved highly unpopular with students and alumni, and the colors were changed back after 1985.