As many of you know, CU football just played CSU this past weekend on Saturday night. And if you don’t know, where have you been. Deion Sanders has taken the college football world by storm, raking up top recruits and transfers in the transfer portal. He turned around the culture in Boulder, leading the Buffs to a 3-0 record so far. To put this in perspective, the Buffs won 1 game last year – a drastic change. This past week, CU played CSU in the Rocky Mountain Showdown, with College Gameday being hosted in Boulder. The last time College Gameday was in Boulder was 1996. The Buffs started off hot, with a pick-six from Deion’s son, Shilo Sanders. 
But CSU came out to play, quickly answering back. Throughout the whole game, CU did not look as good as they did against TCU and Nebraska, missing easy first downs and committing dumb penalties. CSU looked like they came ready to play, leading CU at halftime 21-14. Keep in mind, CU was favored by 24 points this game, but they looked unprepared and had no sense of urgency. This may be due to the fact that CU’s star two way player Travis Hunter had to leave the game early after taking a hard cheap shot towards the end of the first half. 
But it also may be a factor of them overlooking CSU, and thinking they were going to blow them out. Their cocky attitude quickly changed as the game progressed.
This led the Buffs to scramble for his backups and get adjusted to playing without Hunter. The Rams looked dominant all game, but allowed CU to stay in the game due to the mass amount of penalties they committed. Towards the end of the game, CSU had a 99.2% chance of winning, with CU backed up on their own 2 yard line with only a few minutes to go. Fortunately, for CU, Shedeur channeled his inner Tom Brady, and led CU for a 98 yard game tying drive. The Buffs were able to battle it out in double overtime, winning 43-35 against the Rams. The game wasn’t pretty, and definitely shouldn’t have been that close. CU’s star, Travis Hunter, will be out for a couple weeks, missing next week’s Top 25 battle against Oregon.
