Colorado’s next trip to the November calendar now comes with a national spotlight.
The Buffaloes will face Arizona State at 5:30 p.m. MT, and the game will air on ESPN2, according to the Big 12’s announcement. That sends Colorado into Tempe under the lights for its first November matchup, with another important league test still on deck before then.
For Colorado, the timing matters because the team is trying to stop the slide before it gets any deeper. The Buffaloes are coming off a second-half collapse against Oklahoma State on Oct. 24, a result that pushed their losing streak to five games. They still have Kansas State in Boulder on Oct. 31 before turning to Arizona State.
The Sun Devils, meanwhile, are set up to meet Colorado with a very different rhythm to their season. ASU opened with a 70-7 win over Morgan State, then took a 48-20 loss to Texas A&M.
After that came a 24-17 win over Kansas, a 55-19 setback against Baylor, a 30-12 victory over Hawai'i and a 53-25 defeat at Texas Tech. On Oct.
24, Arizona State beat Kansas State 28-17.
Before Colorado arrives, though, ASU has another challenge waiting in BYU. The Cougars are coming off an overtime loss to UCF on Oct. 24 that knocked them out of their No. 2 ranking. Arizona State enters that matchup at 4-3 and sits ninth in the 16-team Big 12.
Colorado is in a much tougher spot. The Buffaloes remain the only winless team in conference play at 0-4, and the current run has already put their postseason hopes in a difficult place. Colorado has now lost five or more games three times in the Deion Sanders era, and the last two teams that hit that mark finished without a bowl game.
ESPN’s FPI gives Colorado just a three percent chance to get to six wins the rest of the way in 2026. It also gives the Buffaloes a 0.3 percent chance to run the table and finish 7-5. The model lists Colorado at zero percent for everything else, including the Big 12 title and a College Football Playoff berth.
Kansas State comes into this week at 4-3 overall and 1-3 in Big 12 play, but the Wildcats still have a 77.2 percent chance to reach six wins. For Colorado, though, the immediate task is simpler: find a way to end the losing streak against KSU before the Arizona State date even arrives.
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