Colorado Buffaloes, Deion Sanders Predicted to Finish 10th Place in Big 12

ESPN predicts that the Colorado Buffaloes will go 6.5-5.5 in the 2025 season. According to this, Colorado will be a fringe bowl team just one year removed from winning nine game and making an Alamo Bowl appearance. ESPN also predicts that this mark would have the Buffaloes finishing up No. 10 in the Big 12.

The two teams ESPN has finishing top two in conference are the Kansas State Wildcats and Arizona State Sound Devils. Kansas State is projected by these metrics to finish first and go 8.6-3.7. Arizona State is just below that and projected to finish second at 8.3-3.9.

Here is the entire Big 12 Win-Loss Record Predictions:

1. Kansas State Wildcats, 8.6-3.7
2. Arizona State Sun Devils, 8.3-3.9
3. BYU Cougars, 8.0-4.2
4. Texas Tech Red Raiders, 7.9-4.2
5. Kansas Jayhawks, 7.9-4.3
6. Baylor Bears, 7.2-5.0
7. TCU Horned Frogs, 7.2-5.0
8. UCF Knights, 7.2-4.9
9. Iowa State Cyclones, 6.7-5.4
10. Colorado Buffaloes, 6.5-5.5
11. Utah Utes, 6.4-5.6
12. Cincinatti Bearcats, 6.4-5.7
13. Oklahoma State Cowboys, 5.5-6.6
14. West Virginia Mountaineers, 5.2-6.9
15. Arizona Wildcats, 4.9-7.1
16. Houston Cougars, 4.8-7.2

Heading into the 2024 season, many picked Kansas State to win the Big 12. They ended up going 8-4 in the regular season and 5-4 in Big 12 conference play. They finished tied for eighth with the West Virginia Mountaineers.

Arizona State on the other hand are the reigning Big 12 champions. In their first season in the conference in 2024, the Sun Devils went 10-2 during the regular season and 7-2 in conference play. They faced the Iowa State Cyclones in the Big 12 championship game and won 45-19. They went on to play in the College Football Playoff, losing a heartbreaker in double-overtime to the Texas Longhorns.

Deion Sanders Enters Year Three in Boulder

Deion Sanders is now in his third year as coach of the Colorado Buffaloes. His first season in 2023 started out on fire with a 3-0 record, but the team struggled throughout conference play. They won only one more game the rest of the way and finished with a record of 4-8.

2024 was a huge step in the right direction. They were in the thick of the Big 12 title race and won nine games. Coach Prime will be losing his two best players from a season ago in quarterback Shedeur Sanders and cornerback/wide receiver Travis Hunter. Will he be able to build on last season’s success without them?