‘F— the Mormons’: Students’ chant against football opponent triggers $50,000 fine for school
Students attending a football game for the University of Colorado, well known as a party school at least partly because its location in far-left Boulder, Colorado, and its proximity to ski resorts for students to reach during winter months, chanted a slogan.
It was highly critical of CU’s opponent in the game, Brigham Young University.
In fact, they said, “F— the Mormons.”
And that display of hate and religious bigotry is costing the school $50,000.
The students will be punished, the school said, if they can be identified.
BREAKING: The Big 12 Conference has reprimanded & fined Colorado $50,000 for the “inappropriate chants” that were heard during the BYU-Colorado game Saturday. #BYUfootball #BYU #Big12 pic.twitter.com/UkAIoQhuqK
— Jake Hatch (Yawk) (@JacobCHatch) September 30, 2025
Channel 7, a Denver broadcast outlet, said the Big 12 Conference announced not just the fine but a “public reprimand” for the school.
Shortly after the chant, CU officials condemned the words and called the behavior “deeply disappointing,” and then conference commissioner Brett Yormak announced the punishment.
He said “hateful and discriminatory language” has no home in the league.
CU’s coach claimed the derogatory slurs are “not indicative of who we are, our student body. Our kids are phenomenal, so don’t indict us just based on a group of young kids that probably was intoxicated and high simultaneously.”
Statement from Colorado following the Big 12’s decision to fine the university for profane chants directed at BYU this past weekend. pic.twitter.com/41D2xkGxuZ
— Jackson Payne (@jackson5payne) September 30, 2025