For these of you who stopped holding observe of Deion Sanders’ first season at Colorado, let me fill you in. After a 28-16 loss to UCLA on Saturday — the Buffs’ fourth in 5 video games — CU finds themselves at .500. At the moment sitting at 4-4 with 4 video games left, Sanders’ group wants two extra wins to grow to be bowl-eligible. So… which nationwide pregame present is headed to Boulder subsequent week?

Any curiosity, Large Midday? How about you, School Gameday? A top-25 Oregon State staff visits Colorado subsequent Saturday. Travis Hunter is wholesome, and, umm, Shadeur Sanders remains to be taking snaps. By no means thoughts that he’s been sacked extra occasions for extra yards than another energy 5 QB, and if I may confirm that neither FIU or Previous Dominion yielded 4 sacks Saturday, he’d lead the FBS in these classes.

Per my calculations, Shadeur has been dropped 42 occasions for a complete lack of 381 yards. That’s slightly over 5 sacks for slightly below 50 yards misplaced per sport. The Bruins harassed Deion’s child so relentlessly — seven sacks, and numerous hits, hurries, and knockdowns — that it might represent youngster abuse if his pops didn’t signal the waiver. (Or if Shedeur wasn’t legally an grownup.)

Chris Fowler was pleading for the younger QB to get down throughout the waning performs of rubbish time as a result of Sanders was hobbling round like a punch-drunk boxer. Look, I get it, he’s aggressive, assured, and desires to remain within the sport, however even should you take the regarding father-son side out of it, what the hell would Deion the coach do if Sheduer received critically injured?

Backup Ryan Staub has two cross makes an attempt on the season, and the offense is sort of as dangerous at working the ball as it’s defending the QB. They have been 126th (of 130) in whole speeding yards per outing coming into the weekend, and tallied a whopping 25 on the bottom on the Rose Bowl.

Oh, did I point out that Shilo Sanders earholed a Bruin, flexed, after which was promptly ejected for concentrating on?

What enjoyable!

The success of this Colorado staff is tethered to its quarterback, and as proficient as he’s, nobody participant (or coach) can carry a program by way of Pac-12 play. (See: Williams, Caleb.) The Buffs remaining schedule is as follows: Oregon State, Arizona, at Washington State, and at Utah. The applications bookending that stretch ought to each be ranked, and I pray Shedeur Sanders isn’t upright for the journey to Salt Lake Metropolis.

Hey, I’m an asshole, however I’m not 100% a dick.

Oklahoma, what the hell, man?

Per week after barely getting by UCF, undefeated Oklahoma misplaced their typical bizarre Large 12 street sport during which they couldn’t get out of their very own method, or get a cease. Dillon Gabriel threw a pick-six to open the scoring for the Kansas Jayhawks, the sport was delayed for an hour as a result of lightning, and the rain (or Brent Venables’ timid teaching) compelled the Sooners to remain grounded.

Kansas gained confidence the longer they hung round, and you may inform the Sooners have been in bother when the 2 golf equipment began buying and selling leads within the second half. When Jayhawk working again Devin Neal scored with 55 seconds left, it didn’t even matter that they failed on the two-point attempt. Gabriel threw 19 passes all sport, six of them on the ultimate, fruitless drive, and although the Sooners made it so far as the KU 23, his final try fell incomplete.

The win snapped the Jayhawks’ 18-game dropping streak to OU on its final try in who is aware of how lengthy.

On a associated be aware: I can’t look ahead to Bedlam.

Losses like these occur on a regular basis within the Large 12, and I’m going to overlook the times of rando colleges effervescent as much as throw a wrench within the projections. Oklahoma’s stumble places Texas within the driver’s seat till their mind fart (it nearly occurred at Houston final week), and hopefully, informal followers get an excellent snort on the escapists’ expense quickly.

Sooner or later, the trail to the playoff gained’t be as straightforward regardless of an expanded area. As an alternative of the Baylors, Texas Techs, and Iowa States of the world piecing collectively just a few competent drives, it’ll be Georgia, Alabama, LSU, and the remainder of the SEC testing the expertise and training at UT, and OU.

If my staff’s convention weren’t merging with probably the most highly effective universities within the Pac-12, I’d preserve working my mouth. Really, scratch that, I haven’t taken a retaliatory swipe at Venables but.

There’s nothing worse than praising a coach who instantly begins dry-heaving. I don’t know if the Crimson River Rivalry was an outlier like so a lot of these video games are, however the Sooner staff that rallied to beat Texas was nowhere to be seen the previous two weeks. Possibly it was a traditional Longhorn choke job, and neither of the SEC defectors are to be trusted.

Properly, if you put it like that …