Colorado was one of the most intriguing teams in college football last season, but they were not able to put together very many wins. The 2024 season has been much different.
The Deion Sanders-coached Colorado Buffaloes defeated Utah on Saturday to improve to 8-2 on the season.
Colorado finished with just four wins during Sanders’ first season at the helm, which was a considerable improvement over the football program’s one-win season in 2022.
Sanders faced his fair share of doubters when he made the leap from Jackson State, a historically Black college and university in Mississippi, to a struggling NCAA Division I FBS program. The Buffaloes got off to a 3-0 start last season, but some critics became more vocal after Colorado ended the 2023 campaign on a six-game losing streak.
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NBA superstar LeBron James has long been among the vocal supporters of Sanders, and he put the “haters” on notice as he celebrated the Buffaloes’ 49-24 victory over Utah.
James suggested Sanders’ naysayers have gone into “hiding” this season. He also declared that Sanders has transitioned from “We coming” to “We here.”
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“I don’t hear non of those @CUBuffFootball @DeionSanders HATERS being up front and loud! They’re in hiding now! Coach Prime said ‘We Coming.’ Well it’s ‘We Here’ now. Love what’s going on there in Boulder,” James wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday.
Sanders oversaw an aggressive roster turnover during the past two offseasons, which seems to have paid off. The approach included leaning heavily on the transfer portal and recruiting some of the best high school prospects in the nation.
Quarterback Sheduer Sanders, Deion’s son, has anchored Colorado’s high-powered offense this season and two-way star Travis Hunter continues to be one of the best college football players in the country.
Colorado made the switch from the Pac-12 Conference to the Big 12 this season, which set up what many believed would be a more formidable schedule than what the Buffaloes contended with in 2023.
Nevertheless, Colorado has been up for the challenge and remains alive for a spot in the conference championship and even the College Football Playoff.
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