Following a 9-4 season and Alamo Bowl appearance, Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders briefly flirted with potentially coaching the Dallas Cowboys during the offseason.
Though Sanders has maintained all along he has no desire to leave the college ranks, but it was revealed he and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had discussions about the team’s head-coaching vacancy before offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer was given the job.
With Sanders emerging as a hot coaching candidate for other open jobs, Colorado promptly signed him to a five-year, $54 million contract extension to keep him in Boulder through 2029.
But nine games into the 2025 college football season, Sanders has won just three games, and his team has been blown out in back-to-back weeks by a combined score of 105-24.
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Things were so bad during CU’s 52-17 loss to Arizona last weekend that some Buffaloes fans were even calling for the school to fire Sanders.
While athletic director Rick George knows the Buffs haven’t lived up to the massive expectations placed on the team after Sanders’ monster extension, he also let the Colorado fan base know that he has full confidence in Sanders to continue turning the program around.
“Everybody feels like, ‘OK, we invested, we put our resources in it, we want results now,’ and yes, we get that but sometimes you just don’t live up to expectations,” George said. “… It’s a challenging time with the House settlement, NIL, the revenue sharing, there’s expectations out there. When you don’t exceed those, or meet those expectations, there’s a lot of chatter, there’s a lot of negativity.
“But I’m proud of ‘Coach Prime.’ It’s been a tough year for him and what he’s been through, and he’s just been a trooper, he’s working hard and motivating, and he’s doing the things I want him to do as coach. We’ve just got to win more football games.”
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Sanders has struggled to find any form of consistency after losing program cornerstones, quarterback Shedeur Sanders and Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter, to the NFL.
Colorado has played four different QBs this year, but it seems the team is five-star QB Julian Lewis’ moving forward after Kaidon Salter and Ryan Staub both failed to produce results.
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