Prime's time

 Oh, hell, let Deion Sanders gloat all he wants. He earned it yesterday.

That was, after all, a great big howdy-do to Great Big College Football yesterday, taking the Colorado Buffaloes down to TCU and strapping a 45-42 loss on a team that played in the national championship game last year. It was the biggest W folks in Boulder had seen in several epochs, and proof (at least for now) that Coach Prime isn't just sequins and glitter and over-the-top branding.

So, yeah, let him say I told ya so. You can even let him say it over and over and over, the way he did yesterday in the posrgame.

However.

However, let's also acknowledge its disingenuousness.

Deion had a right to tell us making his kid his starting quarterback wasn't nepotism after all, because the kid (Shedeur Sanders) threw for 510 yards and four touchdowns on 38-of-47 passing, setting the school record for passing yards in a game in his very first start. Travis Hunter, playing both ways, caught 11 of Shedeur's throws for 119 yards and had an interception as defense.

Coach Prime, who brought both players with him from HBCU Jackson State, crowed that, see, he told you his Jackson State guys could play at any level you threw at 'em.

However.

However, it should be noted that Hunter was the No. 2 recruit in the country in 2022 and turned down Florida State to play for Deion at Jackson State. So it wasn't like he was your typical Jackson State recruit.

Same with Shedeur, who was a four-star recruit coming out of high school. Same with a whole pile of other Colorado kids, hardly any of whom played for the 1-10 dumpsite that stunk up Boulder last year.

Fact is, that Colorado team is effectively gone. The one that took the field in Fort Worth yesterday was brand new, because Coach Prime brought in 86 new players -- all of them way better players, presumably.

So, yeah, let the man gloat. But pull the reins on the hype a bit.

I know. Too late.