The mindset will not change in November for coach Deion Sanders and Colorado, even after the Buffaloes moved up within the Big 12 rankings and the Associated Press ballot with out taking part in a sport.
After an open date and Saturday’s sport at Texas Tech, No. 21 Colorado moved up two spots within the AP Top 25 and ranked No. 2 in its first season within the league through which it performed consecutive championship video games 20 years in the past. Still forward of those Buffaloes (6-2, 4-1 Big 12) is an opportunity to win the Big 12 title sport, and maybe increase the College Football Playoff to 12 groups.
“Every sport is a playoff sport for us,” Sanders mentioned. “It’s been that method all season. I feel Shedeur (Sanders) made a remark early on… that each sport we play is sort of a rattling Super Bowl for individuals, not only for them, however for us, and that that is the way in which we’re coping with it.
“Every sport is a playoff, a knockout event. We plan to face all of them with ardour, dedication, consistency, focus and a canine’s angle.”
The Red Raiders (6-3, 4-2) are coming off a 23-22 win over then-No. No. 11 Iowa State that made them bowl-eligible, left No. 1 BYU. 9 because the league’s solely undefeated workforce and put the Cyclones in a tie for second place. Iowa State is the highest-scoring workforce Tech has overwhelmed in Joey McGuire’s three seasons, and the coach had a visual lower on his proper ear from one thing that occurred earlier than that sport.
“One of our power coaches acquired somewhat too excited and threw a rubbish can, a giant rubbish can,” McGuire mentioned. “I believed I stooped low sufficient, however I didn’t.”
Deep respect
Deion Sanders would not often hunt down different coaches on the sphere for pre-game chats. With McGuire he’ll make an exception.
Sanders considers him a real buddy, relationship again to when Sanders’ son, Deion Jr., performed for McGuire at Cedar Hill High School close to Dallas through the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame coach’s 14-year run there.
“It was just like the ‘Grand Poobah,’ the magna cum laude of the teaching district,” the Colorado coach mentioned. “I’m undoubtedly going to achieve out and attempt to hug him. I’m simply comfortable to have the chance to be on that stage with a person that I’ve revered for fairly a while.”
McGuire mentioned he’s excited to see his good buddy.
“The one factor that is at all times impressed me about Deion is what sort of dad he’s. Being a highschool coach, I’ve handled a whole lot of helicopter mother and father and he is the furthest factor,” McGuire mentioned. “I feel the world of him.”
Heisman hopeful Hunter
Travis Hunter, Colorado’s two-way standout, excels on each side of the ball. He is second within the Big 12 with eight landing receptions and third with 757 receiving yards. At cornerback, he leads the convention with seven move breakups and in addition has two interceptions.
The Heisman Trophy hope has logged greater than 350 snaps on either side of the ball this season. According to league analysis, no different FBS participant has greater than 50 snaps on both offense or protection.
“There’s no one else within the nation doing what he is doing,” Buffs cornerback DJ McKinney mentioned. “The Heisman is one of the best participant within the nation, proper? That’s Travis Hunter.”
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Running Brooks
Tahj Brooks had a game-winning 5-yard landing run for Tech with 19 seconds left at Iowa State, and he is the Big 12’s second-leading rusher with 130.9 dashing yards per sport. It was his eighth dashing rating in his final 5 video games.
Brooks is 121 yards away from breaking Byron Hanspard’s faculty file of 4,428 yards, which has stood since 1996. Brooks has rushed for no less than 95 yards in 19 consecutive video games, 16 of them with 100-plus, to match the longest FBS streak since 1996. Minnesota’s Mohamed Ibrahim additionally had 19 straight from 2020-22.
Winning in November
Texas Tech’s win at Iowa State made the Red Raiders 7-2 in November video games below McGuire. Both losses had been to eventual CFP groups: TCU in 2022 and Texas final yr.
Associated Press reporting.
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