My beloved Colorado Buffaloes take the field tomorrow night for the final time this season. When the Pac-12's other bowl-eligible teams begged off, the responsibility of representing the conference in the 2020 Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, Texas fell to Coach Dorrell's Buffs. The reward for stepping up? Being served up as double-digit underdogs to the 20th-ranked Texas Longhorns.
Fun fact: Although UT's campus in Austin is only eighty miles from San Antonio, a distance that can apparently be covered by car in less than ninety minutes, the Buffs are the home team for tomorrow night's game. I am at a loss to think of a venue, historically speaking, in which home-field advantage is more meaningless than the Alamo.
Here is to hoping that Coach Dorrell's troops fare at least a bit better than did Jim Bowie and his troops. Win or lose, he and his guys have put together a 2020 season that brought far more joy to this cranky old Buffalo than I had any basis for which to hope. In a year when good things were in short supply, the way the Buffs went about their business this season was a very good thing. It is yet another reason for me to look forward to 2021...
As if I, or anyone for that matter, really needed another.
-AK
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