The Alamo Bowl is on Saturday, December 28, in pretty San Antonio, Texas.
It’s a conflict of a number of the Huge 12’s greatest between the No. 20 Colorado Buffaloes and No. 17 BYU Cougars. The Buffs arrive at Saturday’s matchup with a 9-3 file after successful 5 of their final six video games, together with a 52-0 rout of Oklahoma State. BYU enters the weekend’s recreation with a 10-2 file, together with a powerful nine-game successful streak earlier this season.
So, what’s actually at stake in Saturday’s head-to-head?
For the Buffs, it’s an opportunity to achieve 10 wins for the primary time since 2016 and to win a bowl recreation for the primary time since 2004.
It’s additionally the final time followers will see quarterback Shedeur Sanders and Heisman trophy winner and two-way standout Travis Hunter in a Colorado uniform. Sanders and Hunter had been an enormous purpose the Buffs greater than doubled the group’s win complete underneath Deion Sanders in simply his second season and why Colorado led the Huge 12 in passing with over 327 yards per matchup.
For BYU, beating Colorado would give this system its eleventh season with 13 wins or extra. It might additionally seemingly hand BYU its twentieth season as a ranked group within the end-of-season AP Ballot and the third time underneath head coach Kalani Sitake.
There are additionally two extra names to observe: quarterback Jake Retzlaff and receiver Chase Roberts. The pair helped BYU rating 30 or extra factors in opposition to six Huge 12 opponents this yr, sometimes averaging 30.7 factors in convention matchups.
