Former Colorado star talks Deion Sanders, football revival in Boulder: ‘Tremendously exciting’

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The hype around the Colorado Buffaloes football program is at an all-time high, as Deion Sanders leads his team into Eugene, Oregon, against the No. 10 Oregon Ducks on Saturday. 

For a program that went 1-11 in 2022 and managed double-digit wins just once in the past 21 seasons, the rise has seemingly come out of nowhere. 

Colorado Buffaloes tight end Michael Harrison, #87, celebrates with the fans on the field after winning the Rocky Mountain Showdown against the Colorado State Rams 43-35 in double over time at Folsom Field Sept. 16, 2023. (Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

It all starts with Sanders, who completely flipped the roster after being hired in December and used the transfer portal to his advantage. 

"After 20 years of Buffs awful football, to have ‘Coach Prime’ bring the Buffs back to the national conversation has been tremendously exciting. I look at life through black and gold glasses. I'm a Colorado Buffaloes alumni. I was a part of the one national championship for that school," two-time All-American and 1990 Colorado national champion Chad Brown told Fox News Digital. 

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"So the glory days of my time, they felt like they were not just a lifetime ago, but like several lifetimes ago. So, now to have ‘Coach Prime’ and the Buffs to start the season 3-0, optimism is high. The ability for Buffs fans to look back at those once glory days and project those into the future, it doesn’t seem like a wish to hope and a dream anymore. It seems like a reality." 

Sanders took a good amount of criticism in the offseason