Urban Meyer questions if Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter will play in Colorado bowl game

Colorado‘s chances to make the College Football Playoff appear to be over after losing to unranked Kansas in Week 13 and its subsequent No. 25 ranking in Tuesday’s CFP poll.

With the Buffs facing a non-playoff postseason, questions surrounding Colorado stars Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter and whether they’ll ultimately choose to opt out of their team’s bowl game have begun.

Urban Meyer weighed in on the conversation with a personal experience of his own while talking to Rob Stone and Mark Ingram on The Triple Option podcast, showing how much college football has changed since his days coaching at the college level.

“Mark, is Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter really going to play in a lower-level bowl game,” Meyer asked. They both said no. “When Denzel Ward first came to me before the Cotton Bowl and said, ‘I don’t think I’m going to play in this game.’ I thought, ‘What happened?’ It really didn’t compute with me what was happening.

“I think we’re about to see something in the next seven days that’s going to really transform college football and the postseason.”

Meyer’s bold guess comes as both Sanders and Hunter have been widely considered as consensus first-round draft picks, as likely the top players at their position heading into the offseason.

With nothing to gain by playing another college football game, many NFL-ready players have chosen to play it safe and focus on their upcoming professional careers instead of participating in their team’s postseason matchup.

“If you are one of these elite players that is going to the next level to play football, and you’re not in a conference championship game and you’re not going to the college football playoff — they are going to hang it up,” Ingram responded to Meyer.

That makes Colorado’s regular season finale against Oklahoma State inside Folsom Field all the more special for the duo that many considered the most exciting in the country this season.

Kickoff between the Buffs and Cowboys is set for Friday at Noon ET live on ABC.