Home-and-home Colorado matchups with K-State in jeopardy
The home-and-home series Colorado football was set to have with Kansas State in 2027 and 2028 is reportedly in jeopardy per KCTV’s Gabe Swartz.
“While it remains to be seen how this will impact college athletics in the decade ahead, Kansas State’s football program has an immediate problem on its hands,” Swartz prefaced before saying, “The Wildcats were scheduled to play home-and-home football series with current Pac-12 members Arizona, Colorado and Washington State. K-State is scheduled to welcome Arizona to Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Sept. 14, 2024, and make a return trip to Tucson on Sept. 13, 2025.
“While the Arizona games represent a more immediate scheduling conundrum for K-State athletic director Gene Taylor, KSU wasn’t set to play Colorado until a Sept. 18, 2027, trip to Boulder and a Sept. 16, 2028, visit from the Buffaloes.”
Death of the Pac-12 nothing to celebrate for Colorado football fans: Analyst
BuffZone’s Pat Rooney doesn’t believe Colorado football fans should be looking back smiling at the chaos the Buffaloes’ Big 12 jump eventually caused — instead seeing it as the opposite as something to celebrate.
“Change can be healthy, and in this case perhaps inevitable, yet the demise of the premier athletics league on the West Coast, the home of tradition and Heisman winners and John Wooden, is a huge loss for college athletics,” Rooney prefaced before saying, “Kudos to Colorado for doing what it needed to for self-preservation, but the wreckage left behind in the Pac-12 exodus and the limbo status thrust upon California, Stanford, Washington State and Oregon State — all with rich traditions in Pac-12 lore — are nothing to celebrate.”
As it turns out, schedules aren’t the only thing going up in smoke with the Big 12 welcoming the “Four Corner” schools of Arizona, ASU, Colorado, and Utah; predictably, the remnants of the Pac-12 are stuck staring at either a life of independent college football status or a half-baked merging with the Mountain West conference that wouldn’t result in a true fifth Power Five conference.