SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Thursday afternoon, Mike MacIntyre took his Colorado Buffaloes for a little tour of Levi's Stadium.
It's where MacIntyre told the Buffs last August they would be on Dec. 2.
It's where they have been planning to be all fall.
Now, while the rest of the college football world has been taken by surprise, the Buffs are taking their trip in stride — ready to play one more game with the aim of taking one more step in a rather improbable journey.
MacIntyre's eighth-ranked, 10-2 Buffaloes are just one win away from winning CU's first Pac-12 football title and the program's first conference title since 2001.