BYU Football Will Reportedly Play At Colorado Early In Big 12 Schedule

Feb 3, 2025, 4:43 PM

KSL Sports

PROVO, Utah — One high-profile game on the BYU football schedule for the 2025 season has reportedly leaked.

According to Yahoo’s Ross Dellenger, BYU will play at Colorado on Saturday, September 27.

Report: BYU football will play Colorado on September 27

Here’s an early peek at Colorado’s 2025 football schedule set for release Tuesday: Deion Sanders and the Buffs host BYU on Sept. 27 in a rematch of the Alamo Bowl and open Big 12 play at Houston on Sept. 13, sources tell @YahooSports. https://t.co/864KZqHkao

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) February 3, 2025

The game will be a rematch of the 2024 Alamo Bowl, where BYU crushed Colorado, 36-14, in San Antonio to cap off an 11-2 season.

BYU’s 2025 Big 12 football schedule will be unveiled on Tuesday, February 4, at 9 a.m. (MST) on ESPNU.

The reported date of BYU/Colorado would be BYU’s second consecutive road game. One week prior, BYU is scheduled to travel to Greenville, North Carolina, to face the East Carolina Pirates in nonconference action.

2025 Big 12 Football Schedule will be revealed at 9 a.m. on Tuesday on ESPNU.

— Mitch Harper (@Mitch_Harper) February 1, 2025

The meeting between BYU and Colorado will mark the Cougars’ first trip to Boulder since 1981. It will also be the first regular-season meeting between the programs since that same contest 44 years ago.

BYU won that 1981 meeting in Boulder, 41-20. A pair of BYU legends played quarterback in that game, with Jim McMahon getting the start and Steve Young stepping in when McMahon got banged up.

BYU’s last two meetings against Colorado have come in bowl games.

During the Alamo Bowl festivities in December, BYU head coach Kalani Sitake and Colorado coach Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders expressed respect and admiration for one another.

“I have a great relationship with Coach Prime. I have a lot of respect for what he’s done with his team,” BYU football head coach Kalani Sitake said in December.

“They played a heck of a football game. If I’m going to get my butt kicked, I’d rather get my butt kicked by that coach,” Colorado’s Coach Prime said about BYU and Kalani Sitake after the Alamo Bowl. “I love him to life, man. He’s a good man.”

BYU football: Big 12 opponents in 2025

TCU Horned Frogs
UCF Knights
Utah Utes
West Virginia Mountaineers
at Arizona Wildcats
at Cincinnati Bearcats
at Colorado Buffaloes | September 27 (Report)
at Iowa State Cyclones
at Texas Tech Red Raiders

Nonconference games

August 30: Portland State Vikings
September 6: Stanford Cardinal
September 20: at East Carolina Pirates

Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for sports.ksl.com and hosts the Cougar Tracks Podcast (SUBSCRIBE) and Cougar Sports Saturday (12–3 p.m.) on KSL Newsradio. Follow Mitch’s coverage of BYU in the Big 12 Conference on X: @Mitch_Harper.