DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado Buffaloes are having an ideal season with a number of gamers more likely to head to the NFL subsequent 12 months. This weekend, they’ll get a big-league expertise once they tackle the Kansas Jayhawks at Arrowhead Stadium — the house of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
This recreation, after all, has extra speedy implications. The Buffs are 6-1 within the Massive 12, tied for the very best document with Brigham Younger College. A win for the Buffs is understandably necessary as the top of the season nears – the BYU Cougars are going through the Arizona State Solar Devils who’re 5-2 within the Massive 12 and will make a bounce within the standings if they’ll get a win. Conveniently for CU, an ASU win would assist them stand alone atop the rankings.
Easy methods to watch Colorado at Kansas on TV
The Buffaloes are on the highway in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri (about 45 minutes from Lawrence, Kansas) visiting the Kansas Jayhawks at Arrowhead Stadium on Saturday.
- Kickoff: 1:30 p.m. MT
- Channel: FOX31 KDVR
- Antenna: 31.1
- Comcast Xfinity: 13 / 1013
- DISH: 31
- Hulu + Reside TV: 3
- YouTube TV: 4
- FuboTV: 3
Kickoff between the Buffaloes and the Jayhawks takes place Saturday at 1:30 p.m. MT.
Tickets for Colorado at Kansas
Solely a nine-hour drive from Boulder, this recreation is a good possibility for followers who need to see the Buffs this season however have not been capable of get into the sold-out Folsom Area.
Arrowhead has about 25,000 extra seats than Folsom Area, and as of Wednesday afternoon, a lot of them can be found.
Tickets begin at simply $40 plus charges, which means a pair will be had for a complete of about $120. By comparability, a single ticket to the CU vs. Utah recreation in Boulder final week price about $200 on the secondary market.
Forecast for Colorado at Kansas
The Buffaloes and Jayhawks are in for an ideal day at Arrowhead Stadium, with a excessive of 50 levels and partly cloudy skies in Kansas Metropolis. However this shall be a cold afternoon for followers within the stands.
Right here in Denver, issues are trying nicer with a excessive temperature above 60 levels and partly cloudy skies.
Key issues to know for Colorado at Kansas
Kansas is actually having an impression on the highest of the Massive 12 standings, simply not as anticipated after being one of many preseason favorites within the expanded 16-team convention.
The Jayhawks could also be guilty if the Massive 12 finally ends up getting just one workforce within the new 12-team Faculty Soccer Playoff, or doubtlessly none in a worst-case state of affairs.
As an alternative of competing for a spot within the convention championship recreation, Kansas (4-6, 3-4 Massive 12) is simply making an attempt to turn out to be bowl-eligible, specializing in beating ranked contenders in November. After consecutive wins over Prime 25 groups for first time at school historical past — Iowa State after which BYU, which was undefeated earlier than final Saturday — the Jayhawks now host league co-leader No. 16 Colorado.
“We all know the type of workforce we’re, we all know how good we will be, and coming into (BYU), folks may label it an upset,” Kansas receiver Luke Grimm mentioned. “However I don’t assume anyone on the workforce labels it an upset based mostly on how we all know our workforce can play.”
BYU’s dwelling loss to the Jayhawks dropped the Massive 12’s highest-ranked workforce seven spots to No. 14 within the newest AP Prime 25 ballot. The Cougars (9-1, 6-1) fell eight to 14th within the new Faculty Soccer Playoff rankings launched Tuesday evening.
That has BYU under groups from the Massive Ten, SEC, ACC and Mountain West in each rankings. The Cougars and Colorado (8-2, 6-1), ranked sixteenth in each, nonetheless stay above undefeated American Athletic Convention chief Military, which jumped 5 spots to nineteenth on the CFP checklist.
The 5 highest-ranked convention champions within the ultimate CFP rankings on Dec. 8 are robotically within the 12-team playoff subject, with the highest 4 getting first-round byes. These rankings will then decide the seven at-large alternatives. The newest projections would have the Massive 12 champion, if BYU or Colorado, because the No. 12 seed.
Nonetheless within the race
League newcomer Arizona State and Iowa State, each 8-2 total, are tied for third place within the Massive 12 with two league losses. The Cyclones made it to November undefeated for the primary time since 1938 earlier than dropping back-to-back video games to Texas Tech after which the Jayhawks.
Arizona State is dwelling Saturday in opposition to BYU. That’s the solely head-to-head recreation all season between the league’s present high 4 groups.
“Any person was telling me if we win and any individual else loses after which like ranch dressing falls on a wing … I don’t actually know,” Solar Devils coach Kenny Dillingham mentioned. “I do not know in regards to the tiebreakers.”
5 different groups under all of them have 4-3 data to stay mathematically eligible: Baylor, Kansas State, TCU, Texas Tech and West Virginia.
Clinch eventualities
BYU and Colorado play on the identical time Saturday and will declare each spots for the Dec. 7 championship recreation with wins and a few assist. However neither can clinch if the Cougars lose at Arizona State.
After 12 seasons enjoying as an unbiased earlier than becoming a member of the Massive 12 final 12 months, BYU will get within the title recreation if it wins and Utah beats Iowa State. If that occurs, Colorado is about to additionally clinch with a victory over the Jayhawks.
Colorado’s climb again
The Buffaloes appeared in 4 Massive 12 championship video games from 2001-05 whereas a part of the league’s unique 12-team lineup. Now again after the previous 13 seasons within the Pac-12, Colorado is in prime place to play in one other one.
“Take a look at me, man — do I appear to be I subscribe to strain or do I appear to be I apply it?” second-year Colorado coach Deion Sanders mentioned Tuesday. “We apply strain. We don’t subscribe to it.”
Colorado received its Massive 12 opener in extra time in opposition to Baylor two months in the past after Shedeur Sanders accomplished a Hail Mary cross for a tying landing on the ultimate play of regulation. The Buffs have a four-game profitable streak since Kansas State scored with 2:14 left to win 31-28 in Boulder.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
