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Colorado returns to Big 12 league play with homecoming game versus Baylor on what may be rainy night

Sep. 19, 2024 11:16 AM EDT

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Baylor (2-1, 0-0 Big 12) at Colorado (2-1, 0-0), Saturday, 8 p.m. ET (Fox) BetMGM College Football Odds: Colorado by 1 1/2. Series record: Colorado leads 9-7. WHAT’S AT STAKE? It seems fitting that homecoming...

A pair of Big 12 openers match 3-0 teams with newcomer Utah at Oklahoma State, and K-State at BYU

Sep. 19, 2024 06:05 AM EDT

Things to watch this week in the Big 12 Conference: Game of the week No. 12 Utah (3-0) at No. 14 Oklahoma State (3-0), Saturday, 4 p.m. ET (FOX) The Utes expect to have back quarterback Cameron Rising (finger on throwing hand) for their first conference...

Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter hopes to play cornerback and receiver at the next level, too

Sep. 18, 2024 14:34 PM EDT

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — About the only thing that doesn’t come easy for Travis Hunter on the football field is choosing sides. “Equal,” Colorado’s two-way standout wrote in an email interview with The Associated Press on whether he prefers catching passes or intercepting...

Father of Colorado supermarket gunman thought he could be possessed by an evil spirit

Sep. 17, 2024 17:42 PM EDT

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The father of a mentally ill man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket testified Tuesday at his murder trial that he thought his son may have been possessed by an evil spirit before the attack. Sometime before the attack in Boulder in 2021, Moustafa...

Deion Sanders leads Colorado into first Big 12 league game in 14 years this weekend against Baylor

Sep. 17, 2024 16:28 PM EDT

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — For the first time in 14 years, the Colorado Buffaloes will play a Big 12 league game. So don't even try to rain on the program's big weekend. Colorado coach Deion Sanders quickly pulled out his phone to consult his weather app when told there was a chance of...

The latest Big 12 newcomers are adding some heft to the conference

Sep. 17, 2024 14:07 PM EDT

The Big 12 Conference added four schools last season with mixed results. Central Florida, BYU, Houston and Cincinnati all finished with losing records in their first year in the league, though the Knights did manage to qualify for a bowl game. This year's four-team...

Mother of Colorado supermarket gunman says he is 'sick' and denies knowing about plan

Sep. 17, 2024 00:26 AM EDT

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The last time Khadija Ahidid saw her son, he came to breakfast in 2021 looking “homeless” with big hair so she offered to give him $20 so he could go get a shave or a haircut that day. Hours later, he shot and killed 10 people at a supermarket in the college town of...

Once a Top 25 team on the rise, Kansas finds itself in desperation mode

Sep. 16, 2024 12:01 PM EDT

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — This was supposed to be the breakthrough year at Kansas, when a program Lance Leipold built from nationwide laughingstock to respectability took another step into the upper echelon of the Big 12 and, just maybe, the College Football Playoff. All of which could...

Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders gives props to his much-maligned offensive line after big game

Sep. 15, 2024 16:14 PM EDT

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado offensive linemen gathered behind Shedeur Sanders at the postgame podium as his invited guests. This, after serving as faithful bodyguards. As a way of saying thanks — maybe even a mea culpa? — the Buffaloes quarterback...

Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders team up to lead Colorado to 7th straight win over Colorado State

Sep. 15, 2024 00:34 AM EDT

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Two-way standout Travis Hunter caught two of Shedeur Sanders' four touchdown passes and also had an interception as Colorado cruised to a 28-9 win over Colorado State on Saturday night. Sanders finished 36 of 49 for 310 yards in the first Rocky Mountain...