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As the playoff becomes Coach Prime real estate and the heat lifts on Billy Napier down in Florida, Indiana enjoys an opportunity to provide clarity to the College Football Playoff bubble.
Playoff longshots Kansas State, LSU and Missouri exited the stage, while Brigham Young’s loss to Kansas made it increasingly likely the Big 12 will finish as a one-bid league.
No. 1 Oregon reaffirmed its Big Ten bona fides by winning despite scoring only 16 points.
As conference commissioners prepare to work the propaganda circuit, with CFP selection day less than three weeks away, here’s what’s left on my mind after Week 12:
Are Deion Sanders and Colorado for real?
The Buffaloes are real, and Travis Hunter is spectacular.
A reminder: Colorado won one stinkin’ game the season before it hired Deion Sanders. Only Coach Prime’s staunchest acolytes could have fathomed he’d have Colorado (8-2) knocking on the door of the playoff in his second season.
Transfer additions unlocked necessary improvements at the lines of scrimmage.
Nobody will confuse Colorado with 2021 Georgia, but quarterback Shedeur Sanders benefits from better pass protection than last season, at least, and the defensive line doesn’t invite running backs to cruise on past.
Hunter’s myriad of talents serve as an ace up the sleeve.
Colorado’s 49-24 smashing of Utah struck me as substantial not because the Utes are a quality opponent – they’ve now lost six in a row – but because Kyle Whittingham’s program signifies everything Colorado lacked last season.
Wittingham built the Utes’ brand on stability and toughness, while Prime’s Buffaloes carried a reputation for being all mouth and no trousers, even as wins piled up this season. Well, Colorado donned its coveralls in a workmanlike shredding of what had been the Big 12’s best defense.
Pair Shedeur…
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Publish date : 2024-11-18 20:08:12
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