Tag: Deion Sanders
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5 storylines to watch as Deion Sanders, Colorado open season at Georgia Tech | Colorado Gameday
ATLANTA — All of the talking is done. It’s time to find out if the Colorado Buffaloes are truly a different team. That’s been the message coming out of Boulder all offseason. The leadership issues that plagued a 3-9 campaign in 2025 are in the rearview mirror. This team says it is more connected than…
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Colorado, Colorado State and Air Force season predictions | 2026 College Football Preview
Colorado’s FBS programs begin the 2026 season this week with Coach Prime’s Buffs at Georgia Tech on Thursday, while Air Force and Colorado State begin Saturday at home. Will it be more of the same from last season, when the three teams combined for just nine wins and zero bowl appearances? Or will they take…
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Why Deion Sanders trusts Brennan Marion to lead Colorado turnaround | 2026 College Football Preview
BOULDER — When Brennan Marion got his first head coaching job at St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School in Vallejo, Calif., he was told fielding a team would be a success. He did, then went 5—6 a year after the previous two seasons saw four wins combined. The following year, he returned home to the Pittsburgh…
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Colorado wide receivers healthy, ready to shine in ‘GoGo’ offense
BOULDER — The moment was fleeting, but it was still enough to prompt a call to Rashad Davis afterward. “‘Coach, it’s over,’” the Colorado wide receivers coach said was the message when his talented quartet of Danny Scudero, DeAndre Moore, Kam Perry and Joseph Williams finally got on the field together for the first time…
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Mark Kiszla: Buffs sell soul, forfeit control of Coach Prime’s tired, fading act
Ralphie doesn’t run, and nobody at Colorado lifts a finger, until genuflecting to the great and powerful Coach Prime. Long before the Buffaloes handed him a $54 million contract he did not earn on the football field, CU sold its soul to Deion Sanders. Does anybody in Boulder have the — um — gumption to…
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Deion Sanders downplays subpoena, off-field distractions ahead of Colorado’s season
BOULDER — Less than 10 days before his fourth season at Colorado kicks off, Deion Sanders was asked about distractions. Coach Prime has been in the headlines in multiple ways, both relating to his son, Shilo. Shilo Sanders has an upcoming bankruptcy case in Denver, at which Sanders was subpoenaed to testify, as well as…
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Former walk-on Brady Kopetz wants you to know the 2026 CU Buffs have deep bond
BOULDER — Pick a number from 1-99 and Brady Kopetz will tell you who’s worn it during his time on the Colorado football team. Considering the Portland native is entering his fifth season with the program — one of two “OBs,” or Original Buffaloes, remaining on the roster from the pre-Deion Sanders era, along with…
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Mark Kiszla: Does Colorado have sorriest state of college football in the whole USA?
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There’s a black hole on the Colorado sports calendar. In our fine state, where Broncomania rages on, college football Saturdays have fallen. And I’m not sure if the CU Buffaloes, Air Force Falcons or CSU Rams know how to get back up. The shine on Coach Prime is fading to black, with television ratings for…
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The NCAA’s new ‘5-in-5’ rule is here and it should make things simpler | College Football Insider
Deion Sanders has a color-coded roster inside his office that details every player in his program, how many years of eligibility each has left and which athletes are on scholarship. That roster had to be adjusted this offseason when the NCAA implemented a new “5-in-5” rule that goes into effect in full in the fall…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Hall of Fame should open its doors to these three Broncos
Mike Shanahan deserves to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but selectors might be holding the salary-cap infraction involving his Super Bowl-winning teams against him. Karl Mecklenburg, a defensive Swiss army knife who was named NFL All-Pro three times, should be in Canton. — W.P., Henderson, Nev. Kiz: Nobody asked me, and I…