A receiver who played his high school football a short drive from Saratoga steps onto one of college football's biggest preseason stages this week. Danny Scudero, a San Jose native and Archbishop Mitty graduate, is one of six Colorado Buffaloes representing Deion Sanders' program Tuesday, July 7, at Big 12 Football Media Days at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas.
Media Days is the Big 12's annual football kickoff, a two-day event on July 7 and 8 where each of the league's 16 programs sends its head coach and selected players to meet reporters and set the season's early storylines. Both days air live on ESPNU from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Central, with a Big 12 Studios simulcast and part of the first day on ESPN2.
A South Bay story, now national
Scudero's path runs straight through the South Bay. After Archbishop Mitty, he began his college career at Sacramento State, then broke out at San Jose State in 2025 with 88 catches for 1,297 yards and 10 touchdowns, numbers that put him among the most productive receivers in the country. In January he transferred to Colorado, where coaches have already described him as a role model for the receiver room.
On Tuesday he shares Colorado's podium with quarterback Julian Lewis, who threw for 589 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions in 2025 according to ESPN, plus tight end Zach Atkins and defensive backs Ben Finneseth, Naeten Mitchell and Cree Thomas. The Buffaloes' session, with Sanders at the microphone, is expected to be among the most watched of the event.
Old Pac-12 faces, new conference
Bay Area fans will find the rest of the field familiar too. Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah, all longtime Pac-12 members, now make this trip to Texas as Big 12 programs. Arizona quarterback Noah Fifita, an Anaheim native who threw for 3,228 yards and 29 touchdowns in 2025, speaks Wednesday.
No games will be decided in Frisco this week, but for Saratoga readers there is a genuinely local reason to tune in: a Mitty product introducing himself to a national audience.