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Colorado football coach Deion Sanders has slightly adjusted his preseason promise to Colorado superfan Peggy Coppom.
Before the season, he vowed to get his team to a postseason bowl game in her honor. But now the Buffaloes control their own destiny in their quest for the Big 12 Conference championship. Coppom also turns 100 years old next week.
Sanders wants more for her.
“I was really dedicated to get Peggy to a bowl game,” Sanders said Tuesday at his weekly news conference in Boulder. “Now we trying to get Peggy to the game. Yeah, it was a bowl game. Now it’s the game.”
The Buffaloes (7-2) are now in position to go to the playoff — if they keep winning. If they win their final three regular-season games against Utah, Kansas and Oklahoma State, they will play for the Big 12 Conference championship on Dec. 7 in Arlington, Texas. If they win that, they will get a berth in the new 12-team College Football Playoff and might even earn a first-round bye if they are among the four highest-ranked conference champions.
Colorado superfan Peggy Coppom will turn 100 years old next week.
Deion Sanders credits ‘flipping the dern roster’ for success
This is all happening a year after the Buffs finished 4-8 in Sanders’ first season as coach − and just two years after they finished 1-11. His defense is noticeably more physical than last year, leading to a question about the transformation Tuesday.
“We flipped the dern roster, remember?” said Sanders, who was hired in December 2022. “Remember all the changes? Yeah, we flipped the roster. That probably has a lot to do with it. We got the people that we wanted. You can’t keep forgetting: We got here in December a couple of years ago, right? That’s kind of tough. Backs were up against the wall. It was kind of tough. We flipped the dern roster, and I’m proud of…
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Publish date : 2024-11-12 21:18:51
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