Colorado bowl-eligible after beating Cincinnati

Shedeur Sanders completed 25 of 30 passes for 323 yards and two touchdowns while adding a rushing touchdown as Colorado beat Cincinnati 34-23 and on Saturday night in Boulder, Colo.Sanders connected on his first 15 passes and didn’t throw an incompletion until 3:37 was left in the second quarter. Colorado (6-2, 4-1 Big 12) is bowl-eligible in a full season for the first time since 2016.Travis Hunter had nine catches on nine targets for 153 yards and two touchdowns. Jimmy Horn Jr. had five catches for 78 yards and Isaiah Augustave had 91 rushing yards on 22 carries with a touchdown.Brendan Sorsby completed 16 of 30 passes for 180 yards and passed for two touchdowns for Cincinnati. Corey Kiner rushed for 94 yards on 17 carries and Evan Pryor had a rushing touchdown in the loss. Joe Royer had 50 receiving yards and a touchdown and Tony Johnson had 54 yards and a touchdown catch.Colorado scored on its first possession when Sanders found Hunter for a 3-yard touchdown catch with 9:32 left in the first.Cincinnati (5-3, 3-2) would answer on its next drive as Sorsby’s 6-yard pass was caught by Johnson in the corner of the endzone to tie the game at 7-7. The highlight of the seven play, 74-yard drive was a 40-yard swing pass from Sorsby to Pryor.The first quarter ended with Sanders’ 4-yard touchdown run that gave Colorado a 14-7 lead.On Cincinnati’s first possession of the second quarter, Pryor spun into the end zone on a 13-yard run to tie the game 14-14.

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