Pac-12 Football: 5 incredibly early bold predictions for the 2023 season
By John Buhler
3. The Pre-Game winner between Arizona State and Colorado will go bowling
For as long as we have the Pac-12 and Arizona State plays Colorado regularly, we must call this quasi-rivalry The Pre-Game. I am not wrong, because well, have you ever been to Boulder or The Valley? I have, and this nickname is perfect! It’s about the stuff that happens before, and after, the game, but not exactly during it. But you know what? That could be changing here in short order…
Although the Buffaloes and Sun Devils are bottom-feeders in the conference, I anticipate things will work out for either Deion Sanders or Kenny Dillingham in the end, possibly both. What if I told you that their regular-season meeting will be the deciding factor for the winning team going bowling? I’ve set CU’s ceiling at 6-6 and one could argue that ASU could be a few wins better, too.
Despite the fact we couldn’t get David Bakhtiari and Jake Plummer in the same room together to hand out The Bowl, this game will live up to the Sickos Committee hype it deserves. Coach Prime will either be celebrating this game as the turning point for his Colorado program or it will be the one that Dillingham uses to sell to former high schoolers in The Valley like himself to stay home.
The only way this game could be even better is if it was decided by good-to-horrific special teams.