Shedeur Sanders pushes back on father Deion’s claim that Colorado became ‘intoxicated with success’

Colorado present needs immoderate help if they privation a accidental astatine the College Football Playoff.

The 16th-ranked Buffaloes controlled their ain destiny successful the bracket entering Saturday but fell to Kansas, 37-21, and present look an uphill climb.

It has been an awesome play for Colorado, which is 8-3 aft winning 4 games past play and winning conscionable 1 crippled the twelvemonth prior.

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Colorado Buffaloes caput manager Deion Sanders and his son, backmost Shedeur Sanders, are shown during the crippled against the Arizona State Sun Devils. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)

But caput manager Deion Sanders said his guys seemed to beryllium getting a small excessively excited.

"We started smelling ourselves a small bit," Sanders said aft the game. "That’s what I conscionable told our team. We got intoxicated with the success. We got intoxicated with the multitude of articles and the presumption that we’re this and the presumption that we’re that. And we did not play CU football. Therefore, we got our butts kicked."

Well, Deion's ain son, backmost Shedeur, didn't needfully hold with the sentiment.

Colorado Buffaloes caput manager Deion Sanders and his son, backmost Shedeur Sanders, are shown during the crippled against the Arizona State Sun Devils. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)

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"Personally, I’m conscionable an overconfident idiosyncratic myself," Shedeur said. "So I can’t spot that connected anybody other and accidental they’re overconfident. I’m not sure. It was truly … we each did our occupation preparing and doing that, truthful immoderate radical did successful their idiosyncratic side, similar mentally, you won’t beryllium capable to know, we won’t beryllium capable to know. I’m focused connected plentifulness of different things than however idiosyncratic is reasoning astatine each times."

When asked however the Buffaloes could "sober up," referencing his father's comments, Shedeur replied, "I don't know. No comment."

Quarterback Shedeur Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes looks to walk against the Kansas Jayhawks, Nov. 23, 2024, successful Kansas City, Mo. (Ed Zurga/Getty Images)

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Colorado present needs a triumph astatine location against Oklahoma State and immoderate benignant of operation of losses by Iowa State (home vs. Kansas State), Arizona State (at Arizona) and BYU (home vs. Houston) successful bid to play successful the Big 12 rubric game, which is present their lone avenue astatine making the College Football Playoff.

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