Black Friday marked the last regular-season video game for Colorado. While the Buffaloes stay in contention for an area in the Big 12 Championship Game– however require a little assistance from groups like Arizona State, BYU, and Iowa State to arrive– Friday’s ending versus Oklahoma State may be the last time Colorado takes the field ahead of December 9.
The day Heisman tallies are because of be kipped down by citizens.
Friday’s video game versus the Cowboys was possibly Travis Hunter’s closing argument for Heisman citizens.
And the two-way star provided possibly the best summation of his candidateship.
Hunter captured 10 passes for 116 backyards and 3 goals on the offending side of the football, and included an early interception in the video game on the protective side of the ball, as Colorado routed Oklahoma State by a last rating of 52-0. The blowout success sees the Buffaloes complete their routine season with a 9-3 record (7-2 in conference play), and they now wait for outcomes on Saturday to see if they can make an area in the Big 12 Championship Game, and offer Hunter yet another fracture at impressing the citizens.
If Friday was his last possibility, it was rather the effort from Hunter. This interception early in the video game highlighted his abilities on the protective side of the football, from his path acknowledgment to his closing abilities on the toss itself:
Hunter’s interception talented the Buffaloes a brief field early in the very first quarter, and Colorado profited from the field position with a one-yard plunge from Micah Welch.
Colorado had a 14-0 lead late in the very first quarter when Hunter reached completion zone for the very first time on the afternoon, taking this brief toss from Shedeur Sanders for an 11-yard goal:
Hunter’s 2nd TD of the video game came early in the 2nd quarter, on a scramble-drill have fun with Sanders. Bear in mind of how Hunter works himself open in the front of completion zone, in ideal sync with his quarterback for the brief goal:
Obviously, it would not be a video game from Hunter without one real highlight-reel minute. That began his 3rd goal reception of the video game, this effort that includes Hunter falling in completion zone, with a protector curtained all over him:
As Hunter has actually been understood to do, he flashed a Heisman Trophy posture in event, possibly using an exclamation point on his prolonged closing argument from Boulder this afternoon.
That exclamation point made a little college football history also:
With the routine season total, Hunter ends up the year with 82 receptions for 1,036 backyards and 11 goals, including another hurrying goal along the method. On the protective side of the football, the Colorado standout snared 4 interceptions this season.
At the minute those 11 getting goals rank Hunter 3rd in all of college football.