BOULDER, Colo. – Welcome to the Unlikely Bowl. Or the Surprise Bowl.
The How You Like Us Now Bowl.
Back in July, when expert opinion fueled college football discussion, the greatest media minds covering the Pac-12 looked at this season’s South Division and determined the following:
Arizona State and Colorado were garbage.
OK, maybe not in such harsh terms. But when the conference collected all the secret ballots and spit out the preseason media poll, ASU was slotted fifth in the six-team South. Colorado was last.
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Fourteen weeks later, those exact two teams square off Saturday with first place on the line, their fan bases rolling their eyes (or worse) at all those experts who failed to see the brilliance brewing inside their respective huddles.