Colorado Buffaloes Odds: Can Coach Prime's Team Win 4 Games?

There is plenty of hype and attention surrounding the University of Colorado and their football program. Deion Sanders is the new head coach of the football program, and he brings with him a certain pedigree and level of expectations. But he isn’t joining one of the powerhouse schools in the nation, and he has a lot of work to do in attempting to turn around a program that has seen far better days.

Colorado Has A Long Way To Go In Rebuilding

Colorado has been one of the worst programs in the country over the last 20 or so years. They have qualified to play in a bowl game just twice since 2005, and have a record of 69-134 during that span. They have been ranked just once since 2002, when they spend a couple of weeks in the top-25, getting all the way up to 15th in the coaches poll.

Rock bottom was essentially hit last season. The Buffaloes won just 1 game in 2022, the second time that they’ve gone 1-11 since 2012. They fired their head coach after an 0-5 start, and seemed to be almost directionless in digging themselves out of the hole that they had created.

Deion Sanders to the rescue.

Coach Prime had become one of the premier names in college football after the work that put in at Jackson State over the last handful of years. Colorado pounced when he became available, giving Sanders a reported $30 million for 5 years (though the value is likely far higher). He has already brought in a new program and new attitude, and he is doing his best to turn over the entire roster from the team that performed so poorly in 2022.