Colorado is giving new meaning to the term "rebuild" in college football.
In an approximately five-month span after the Buffaloes hired coach Deion Sanders away from Jackson State on Dec. 3, 2022, a staggering 52 Colorado players entered the transfer portal. The Associated Press called the mass exodus “unprecedented in [the] portal era.”
The course of events in Boulder has ruffled the feathers of more than a few throughout college football, including Pittsburgh coach Pat Narduzzi. Narduzzi, who won the ACC title with the Panthers in 2021 only to watch All-American receiver Jordan Addison leave for USC, blasted Sanders for misusing the system in an interview with 247Sports.