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COLUMBUS, CO: Coach Deion Sanders is not a big fan of cold weather and detests late kickoff times.
Here he is, however, on Friday the 13th, guiding his Colorado football team into a cold-weather kickoff against Stanford (1-4) at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN.
The Buffaloes (4-2) will face a different kind of challenge because their previous five games were against either nationally rated teams or a close “personal” adversary.
Coach Prime and the Buffs at Folsom Field will continue to be surrounded by excitement even though Stanford is neither. They’ll be performing for their sixth consecutive sold-out crowd in addition to a large national televised viewership.
Will they start slow again, as they did in their previous three games, when they were outscored a combined 34-7 in the first quarter? And can they protect star quarterback Shedeur Sanders? Colorado ranks second nationally in most quarterback sacks allowed with 31.
Coach Prime has been waiting all day to find out.
Travis Hunter playing today?
Travis Hunter, a standout receiver and cornerback, is scheduled to make his Colorado debut on Friday night after missing the previous three games due to a lacerated liver. When he entered the field wearing shorts and a sleeveless shirt, fans cheered. During pregame warmups, he made some impressive one-handed catches in the end zone.
This week, Deion Sanders stated on his weekly coaches show that if Hunter is given the go-ahead to play, he won’t have a play limit. That isn’t Hunter’s style. He is a “all-out” or “nothing guy,” which means that, as he did in his first two games of the season against TCU and Nebraska, he might play more than 120 plays overall for Colorado on offense and defense against Stanford.
The sophomore Hunter was struck late in the first quarter by Colorado State defender Henry Blackburn, resulting in a double-overtime victory over the Rams on September 16. Colorado’s game should have a positive atmosphere, despite Deion Sanders’ dislike of late starts.
Although Stanford is not a formidable foe or a fierce rival, the atmosphere for Friday night’s game in Boulder might turn rather rowdy. This is due to a few factors:
1. Since it’s Family Weekend at CU, parents flocked to the campus bookstore on Thursday and Friday to buy Buffs merchandise. Many of them are excited to join in the celebration with their CU student children after witnessing “Coach Prime” and the school’s football team become a national sensation last month. Because of this, this game and the one against Nebraska on September 9 were the first two Colorado games to be confirmed as sellouts this season. Announcing the sellout on July 20.
2. The evening game on ESPN is completely sold out. Colorado has appeared before3. It’ll be cold. Temperatures could plunge to near 30 degrees, just six days after the Buffs kicked off in 99-degree heat in a 27-24 win at Arizona State. That’s why sweatshirts in particular suddenly became a popular sales item this week on campus. Cold weather also doesn’t exactly tend to reduce alcohol consumption before and during football games. Deion Sanders detests Colorado’s later kickoff time compared to Stanford.
In a mocking statement, Colorado football coach Deion Sanders stated, “Thank God” his team is soon leaving the Pac-12 Conference and that the game will take place in the West at far later times than the 8 p.m. local time ESPN set for Friday night’s matchup versus Stanford at Folsom Field.
The kickoff at 8 p.m., according to Sanders, is the “dumbest thing ever” and “the stupidest thing ever invented in life.”
“Who wants to stay up till 8 o’clock for a dern game?” questioned the man.
On his weekly Colorado Football Coaches Show in Boulder on Wednesday, he said these things. Then, given that the game begins at 10 p.m. on the East Coast, he wondered how many spectators would stay up to see it.
“They even care about ratings or anybody watching it?” inquired he.
ESPN does, and on September 16, it struck gold in a prior late game involving Colorado. That game ended beyond two a.m. on the East Coast, but Colorado still defeated Colorado State in double overtime and attracted 9.3 million live viewers. , it was the most watched late game ever.
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