Very little that Colorado did on Saturday night at the Alamodome looked like the rest of the 2024 season. Travis Hunter, however, was Travis Hunter.

On Saturday night at the Alamodome, the players most responsible for the transformative last two years of Colorado football, Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders, played their final game with the Buffaloes.

The Valero Alamo Bowl has been a nightmare for Colorado football teams in the past. On Saturday night, it was a nightmare for the current Buffaloes, too.

BYU and Colorado both finished in a four-way tie for first place in the Big 12 standings, but neither team had the tiebreaker advantage to reach the Big 12 title game. That, among other factors, led Cougars quarterback Kedon Slovis to describe the Alamo Bowl matchup against the Buffaloes as "the people's" Big 12 championship game.