Deion Sanders' Colorado Buffaloes eliminated from bowl contention amid lost season

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It will be another losing season for Deion Sanders as Colorado's head football coach.

After a 29-22 loss to West Virginia Saturday, Sanders' Buffaloes were eliminated from bowl contention and will finish with a losing record for the second time in three seasons.

"This is not who we are. We're better than this, and they deserve better than this. I want better than this. I feel like I coach better than this. I feel like we got players that are so much better than what the production is that we're putting out," Sanders said after the game.

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Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders Oct. 25 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)

"So, then, you got to identify the coaches, that's us, and that starts with me, because I feel like we got the nucleus inside the locker room that we should be getting it done. I don't think we played a team that's this athletically and physically better than us. I really don't, and I'll stand on that."

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Deion Sanders, center, with his sons Shedeur Sanders, left, and Deion Sanders Jr. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

Many critics wondered how Sanders' squad would perform in 2025 after the departure of his quarterback son, Shedeur Sanders, and two-way star Travis Hunter, to the NFL.

Shedeur and Hunter had been staples of Deion's college coaching career dating back to his first two seasons at Jackson State.

Ahead of Saturday's must-win game, Sanders named five-star freshman Julian Lewis the