Happy birthday, Colorado — and Colorado sports.

Leading into the state’s 150th birthday Aug. 1, The Denver Gazette has partnered with the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame to publicize the definitive list of Colorado’s top 150 sports moments.

Colorado Sports Hall of Fame historian Dave Plati and a committee of 10 compiled and will release the list every week until the No. 1 moment on July 31. Plati and Broncos icon Jim Saccomano will unveil the list weekly on a Colorado Sports Hall of Fame podcast at coloradosports.org/podcast/.

Today’s top moment in Colorado sports history:

No. 122

Nov. 30, 1985

In what many consider to be one of the greatest upsets in Colorado high school football, Lakewood, with all of 27 players on its roster, manhandled heavily favored Cherry Creek, 47-8, in the Class 4A championship game. It wasn’t a fluke. Lakewood finished 13-1 with the Tigers’ average margin of victory being 22 points. On a frigid day at CU’s Folsom Field, Lakewood zoomed to a 31-0 halftime lead and never looked back. The Tigers outgained the Bruins 401-194 in total offense in what is still one of — if not the — most lopsided title games in state prep history.

—Dave Plati, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame historian