Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes struggled mightily last season, finishing with a record of 4-8, losing eight of their last nine games to end the season. But one prominent college football analyst seems to think that they will do much better this season – and perhaps even content for a conference title.
During a recent episode of his show, college football analyst Joel Klatt picked Deion Sanders and Colorado as one of his bounce-back teams this season.
“Colorado was 4-8 last season. While I don’t think it was necessarily underperformed, I believe that, based on the way that the season started, it fell below expectations once the expectations were ratcheted up to a million in the first couple of weeks of that season under Deion Sanders,” Klatt said according to On3.
Klatt went as far as to suggest that Colorado could even make the Big 12 championship game this season, noting that they will face a “vastly, vastly easier” schedule than last season.
“They bulked up on both lines of scrimmage. My contention would be that Shedeur Sanders is good enough at the quarterback position. Their skill positions players are good enough on the outside,” Klatt said. “If you protect Shedeur, even just a bit better, they’re going to win not just four but six, seven, eight, maybe nine games and potentially competing for that spot in the Big 12 title game.”
It’s a pretty shocking prediction given how poorly Colorado performed last year. We’ll have to see whether or not he’s right.
[On3]
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