Travis Hunter tracker: Superstar’s huge performance can’t save Colorado from upset loss

With each passing week, Travis Hunter looks more and more like the clear Heisman front-runner. Colorado’s path to the Big 12 Championship Game and College Football Playoff, however, became a lot rockier Saturday after the Buffaloes lost to Kansas 37-21. Until then, more on Hunter’s latest performance … GO DEEPER College Football Playoff 2024 projections: Indiana hangs on as Alabama, Ole Miss fall out Stat line vs. Kansas Eight catches for 125 yards and two TDs; seven tackles, one pass breakup After the Buffaloes found themselves in a 17-0, second-quarter hole, Hunter kick-started a comeback effort when he took a wide receiver screen 51 yards to the house. What it means The most interesting part of Hunter’s declaration for the 2025 NFL Draft earlier this week wasn’t that this will be his final season of college football. And his success playing both receiver and cornerback in college hasn’t come because Hunter has superhuman lung capacity or something like that, but because everything that makes him a special athlete — and a generational football talent — is translatable to both positions, from footwork to ball skills to the physicality required to tackle, block and break tackles.