Travis “Big Victory’’ Hunter struck the pose, but all the Colorado players on the traveling roster should have stood together for a team photo at the end of their second conference game since rejoining the Big 12 and their most dominant triumph on the road in two seasons of Prime Time Ball.

Wow! Whee! CU pummeled the University of Central Florida Knights 48-21 Saturday.

The Buffs, two-touchdown underdogs, should be knighted. And they should be ranked in the nation’s top 25 after such a pose- and picture-perfect performance.

Hunter not only is the favorite for the Heisman Trophy, which he simulated during the festival, but he could have said afterward: “I’m going to Disney World’’.

All the always two-way football phenomenon did was catch nine passes for 89 yards (although his 100-yard streak ended). He scored the Buffaloes’ first touchdown in the first quarter on a 23-yard pass from Shedeur Sanders. He made an implausible interception and prevented a touchdown for the second successive game with a play at the goal line.

On the last turnover of four produced by the Buffs late in the blowout, Hunter’s ankle was rolled over by a teammate, and he had to go into the medical tent. Breathing was halted in Boulder and throughout Colorado and the entire college football country. Travis emerged moments later and was limping slightly. But it didn’t seem like he had suffered a major injury. In fact, coach Deion Sanders considered playing him on the final offensive series to reach the hundred mark, but thought wiser of it.

Enough was enough for CU. The Buffaloes had embarrassed a conference opponent, a school they had never played against before, an undefeated team and one of the most prolific rushing offenses in the NCAA this year.

Route 417 goes around Orlando, Fla., but the Buffs’ rout went through, over and under the Knights, whose black-and-gold colors were so lighter than the bold black-and-gold of the Buffaloes.

Now, CU is back in the game with its fourth victory in five games. They only won four in 2023. Two more, and the Buffs will be back in the bowls. And their schedule doesn’t look as daunting as it did following the Nebraska loss.

The House of Mouse transmogrified into the Home of Bad Dreams for the Knights on Saturday after lightning caused an hour delay of the kickoff. Who did the people come to see – Deion or Malzahn? Shedeur and Travis or KJ and Deshawn?

More than 45,000 spectators were squashed into the stadium 38 miles from Disney World; FOX Sports Big Noon Kickoff came to the event and more than 100 high school recruits came to watch. They went away singing the praises of Travis and Shedeur, who threw for 290 yards and three touchdowns. The Buffs also ran for 128 yards and two touchdowns and didn’t let the Knights’ 284 yards in the air and 177 yards on the ground irritate them.

Is coach Deion Sanders auditioning to return to the state where he was born and played high school and college football and as a coach at Florida or his alma mater Florida State some day or even next season?

Sanders the Elder was born three hours away from Orlando in Fort Meyers, Fla., and 18 of his players were swayed by him from Florida to Colorado. Thomas Wolfe was wrong. You can go home again – and win.

Two of the three most major programs in the state are struggling this season, and their coaches are extremely warm chairs. Miami’s Mario – Cristobal or Christo-ball – has no worries. The Hurricanes are 5-0 after barely surviving Virginia Tech Friday night. Yet, Florida’s Billy Napier may be in more trouble than any other college coach because of seasons of futility in the Swamp. At Florida State coach Mike Norvell isn’t in such an insecure spot because he was the ACC Conference’s and the NCAA’s coach of the year in 20-23. The Seminoles won 13 games last season and seemed to get jobbed out of the four-team playoff, but lost their bowl. This year, though, FSU has floundered after failing in its first three games.

A source in the middle of the muddled Gators predicament told me Saturday morning that Lane Kiffin, the Ole Miss coach, is the No. 1 candidate for Florida’s future, but if a billionaire booster would take care of the $26 million payoff to Napier and supported Sanders, he would be just behind Kiffin.

After the effort by the Buffs Saturday, Deion may want to stay in Colorado forever.