BOULDER — On Election Day 2024, Deion Sanders might’ve been the most popular man in America pleading to not have your vote.
Not your top-25 vote, anyway.
“We don’t care about (any) rankings,” the second-year CU football coach said Tuesday before the College Football Playoff committee ranked his Buffs 20th. “Rankings (are) like a tease, man. …
“Rankings can fool you. It can get you in a situation where you start thinking that you are that. And we don’t buy into that. We know who we are.
“(By) Week 11 in college football. If you don’t know who you are by now, something’s wrong. … So we can’t be fooled for that foolishness. That’s why I said, ‘Don’t rank us.’ We’re better without it. We’re cool.”
They’re good. Dang good. The clever coaches know when and how to play the underdog card. Sanders has played his the way Hendrix handled a Stratocaster. His Buffs (6-2, 4-1 Big 12) play with the speed of a Porsche 959 and the scorn of a jilted lover.
“You hate because you’re not us,” CU safety Cam’Ron Silmon-Craig, the heart, soul and spine of one of the most improved defenses in the country, told me in the preseason. “They’re mad because we do a lot of things that they can’t.
“They wish they could go around and say certain things. They wish they could wear the black and gold like we wear it and swag it up how we wear it and be us … and not have a coach that keeps us in just a box, but lets us be us.
“Everybody wishes they had a quarterback that holds up his wrist when you score. Everybody wishes they had that. So it’s easy to hate us.”
Beating them, though?
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That’s become much, much, much harder.
Last season, CU exploded onto the scene with a win at TCU, shredded Nebraska like a block of cheese, survived an upset scare at home to CSU and … …read more
Source:: The Denver Post – Sports
