| Mode: | football |
| Year: | 1984 |
| Team: | Colorado Buffaloes |
| Conference: | Big Eight Conference |
| Short Conf: | Big 8 |
| Record: | 1 - 10 |
| Conf Record: | 1 - 6 |
| Head Coach: | Bill McCartney |
| Hc Year: | 3rd |
| Off Coach: | Gerry DiNardo |
| Oc Year: | 1st |
| Off Scheme: | Single set back / split-back |
| Def Coach: | Lou Tepper |
| Dc Year: | 2nd |
| Def Scheme: | 3–4 |
| Captain: | Lee Rouson (RB) |
| Captain2: | George Smith (DT) |
| Mvp: | George Smith |
| Stadium: | Folsom Field |
The 1984 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of Colorado in the Big Eight Conference during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by third-year head coach Bill McCartney, the Buffaloes finished at 1–10 (1–6 in Big 8, seventh),[1] their sixth consecutive losing season. Home games were played on campus at sixty-year-old Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado.[2]
The season was marked by the trauma late in the second game at Oregon on September 15, as sophomore tight end Ed Reinhardt of Littleton suffered a career-ending, life-threatening brain injury.[3] [4] [5] [6] Airlifted to Denver a month later,[7] [8] [9] he was in a coma for 62 days and was partially paralyzed.[10]
Colorado's sole win came in mid-season, by two points over last-place Iowa State on homecoming.[11] The Buffs' previous one-win season was four years earlier; the next was in 2012.
The following spring, McCartney switched to a wishbone offense for 1985.[12]