Coach Prime Deion Sanders Is Part of College Football's Realignment
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On the second Saturday of September, when Deion Sanders entered the press room beneath the stands at Folsom Field at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he halted for a split second to feign surprise at the number of reporters in the room. “Oh my God!” said Sanders, who took over as head football coach last December. “We must be winning. Shoot!” The Buffaloes had just defeated the University of Nebraska, 36-14, in their first home game of the season before a crowd of 53,241, their largest in 15 years. The week before, they had upset Texas Christian University. The room was packed to bursting with reporters from across the country.
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