Buffaloes 'impose our will' in dominant win over Cornhuskers - ESPN

BOULDER, Colo. — Two games into the Coach Prime era and the bar has already been raised at Colorado.

After upsetting national runner-up TCU last week, the No. 22 Buffaloes cruised to a 36-14 win against longtime rival Nebraska in the first regular season home game under coach Deion Sanders.

«We didn't just want to win, we wanted to dominate,» Sanders said. «The first half, we weren't dominant, the second half, we got it together and we began to dominate. We wanted to really impose our will.»

All week, Sanders preached to him team how the game against the Cornhuskers would be «personal.» He asked each of them to find a way to make it personal for them and to let that carry into Saturday morning. For Sanders' son, quarterback Shedeur Sanders, the Huskers made it easy.

«It was extremely personal,» Sanders said. «We go out there to warm up and you got the head coach for the other team (Matt Rhule) trying to stand in the middle of the Buff. It's OK if a couple of players do it, it's fine. Just enjoy the scenery, but when you've got a whole team trying to disrespect it, I'm not going for that at all, so I went in there and disrupted it.

»The Buff means a lot to me."

Shedeur Sanders also hadn't forgotten about offseason comments from Rhule, he interpreted as disrespectful toward his father. Shortly after being hired, Rhule said in an interview that he doesn't «let cameras in, there won't be a camera following me around. I want it to always be (about) the players.»

This came shortly after Deion Sanders' arrival in Boulder, where cameras seemingly following him everywhere he goes.

«The coach said a lot of things about my pops, about the program, but now that he want to act nice — I don't respect that because you're hating on