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Deion Sanders now has proof. His experiment at Colorado has worked. He showed it Saturday night when his Colorado football team beat Cincinnati, 34-23, giving the Buffaloes the minimum number of wins this season to become eligible for a postseason bowl game at 6-2.
This milestone comes just two seasons after he arrived to revive the worst college football team in America in December 2022.
“That’s not the end goal for us,” Sanders said afterward. “That’s the beginning.”
It still validates a rebuilding strategy that had never been seen before in major college football.
∎ As head coach, he overhauled the roster with an unprecedented influx of 51 scholarship transfer players in 2023, retaining just nine returning scholarship players last year out of a roster limit of 85.
∎ Then he flipped the roster again with 39 new scholarship transfers after his team finished 4-8.
∎ He even retooled his coaching staff this year after his top two assistant coaches left for other jobs.
Now, after just 20 games of testing, he has undeniable evidence that it produced the preliminary result he wanted – a bowl game, with even bigger accomplishments still possible this season, including a Big 12 Conference championship.
“We want so much more,” Sanders said.
Colorado football coach Deion Sanders leads the team onto the field before the Buffaloes game against Cincinnati Bearcats at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado on Oct. 27, 2024.
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The latest win at sold-out Folsom Field in Boulder again was led by his son, quarterback Shedeur Sanders, along with Travis Hunter, the two-way star. Shedeur set a school record with 15 consecutive completions to start the game before finishing 25-of-30 passing for 323 yards and two touchdowns. Hunter caught nine of those passes for a career-high 153 yards and both of those…
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Publish date : 2024-10-27 12:47:45
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