The Colorado Buffaloes are 3-6, probably not going to a bowl game, and might have to fight to match the 4-8 record they finished with two years ago, which made Coach Prime a punchline in the sport, after losing 52-17 to the Arizona Wildcats in Week 10.
Deion Sanders’ Buffs are a disaster in 2025, and the worst part, as CBS Sports’ Shehan Jeyarajah notes, is that they’re not even entertaining. Jeyarajah floated out the idea of quarterback Julian Lewis and left tackle Jordan Seaton leaving for greener pastures after a rudderless season.
“Heading into the weekend, Colorado ranks No. 15 in the Big 12 in both total offense and defense. They're 13th in scoring defense and 14th in scoring offense. They only have one total player that ranks top 100 nationally in passing, rushing or receiving. They're just not very good at anything,” Jeyarajah wrote.
“And because of the sheer number of transfers, Colorado isn't especially young. Especially in the trenches, the vast majority of top trench contributors are gone after this season. This was supposed to be a year to keep the train rolling, but instead it's flown off the tracks. Why should Lewis or highly-touted tackle Jordan Seaton even return to the program next year?”
The main reason recruits came to Colorado in the first place is gone. Ratings are nowhere close to what they used to be during the highs of “Prime Time” in 2023. Without Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter, NFL scouts aren’t on the sidelines.
There’s no excitement. No hoopla. It’s hard to see why recruits would have belief in the Buffs being a springboard to a pro career, since the only players drafted the past two years were players Shedeur threw the ball to or the “Grown QB” himself, or being part of a winning culture.
CU hasn’t just been losing. They’ve been getting the doors blown off for the past two weeks. Whatever culture exists isn’t one that’s easy to sell to anyone.
“Easy” is the operative word. Coaching at Colorado is a great challenge for anyone, let alone someone who has the kind of health problems Coach Prime has been dealing with. Getting through this season was a victory for Sanders, given what he went through in the offseason.
He doesn’t need to keep doing this, though. And the chatter certainly points to him stepping down before long. Lewis and Seaton's leaving would expedite that.