Filed by Jon Nyatawa at 1:52 p.m.

Coach Bo Pelini was pretty adamant this morning about keeping his team focused on Colorado – and not Big 12 South Division champion Texas.

Pelini told reporters during his weekly press conference today that he's barring coaches and players from discussing the Dec. 5 Big 12 championship game. It doesn't matter if they're talking about game plans or travel plans, he said.

Pelini wants their attention on this week's road trip to Colorado.

“We do need to win this. That's the way I approach it,” he said. “I don't want anybody to talk about the Big 12 title game around me. It's Colorado, that's all our focus is on.”

Senior center Jacob Hickman said Pelini made that point clear when he addressed the team Sunday.

“(He) said, 'I don't want to hear a word about it. We're playing Colorado. Period,'” Hickman said. “He's pretty straightforward with that kind of stuff.”

But Hickman doesn't anticipate the NU players overlooking Colorado.

“We want to beat Colorado every chance we get,” he said. “It very well could give us some good momentum going into the next week with a good win here.”

The Buffaloes (3-8, 2-5 Big 12) lost a 31-28 game Thursday at No. 11 Oklahoma State. They've had four separate two-game losing streaks, but never dropped three in a row.

Here's what Pelini said about CU today:

“At times I think they're really good, they're just not real consistent,” he said. “They're like we were a year ago. Sometimes they shoot themselves in the foot. They don't execute as well as they should, but at times, they play really good football.”