Setting expectations for Deion Sanders, Colorado football in 2024 - ESPN
A couple of years ago, I wrote a piece about how college football might be vulnerable to a usurper, a new power that takes advantage of the new developments of the day — namely, allowing athletes to transfer more freely and make money off of their name, image and likeness (NIL) — to rise to or near the top of the sport. It seemed the sport might be capable of producing a new Miami or Florida State, programs that rose to usurper prominence in a changing television environment in the 1980s.


