Colorado’s woes continued on Saturday with a heartbreaking 34–31 home loss to No. 23 Arizona (7–3), an outcome that led to a startling post-game moment of honesty from coach Deion Sanders.
Despite leading 31-24 to start the fourth quarter, Sanders’s Buffaloes (4–6) dropped their sixth game in seven outings after giving up 10 unanswered points to close the game, including a walk-off field goal. As Sanders began his post-game press conference, the coach divulged that he just finished speaking with the team about where he believes the struggling program currently stands.
“We’re so close is what I told the team but yet so far,” Sanders said. “We just simply, truly don’t know how to win yet and it’s not for lack of effort, not for lack of coaching with the staff and the support staff. … Everybody around is doing a phenomenal job. We just can’t get over that hump.”
