Every weekend, Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes must be seen on television.
Additionally, if you stayed up until 2AM on the East Coast to watch Colorado’s game against Stanford in its entirety, you saw Coach Prime’s team undergo an historic collapse.
However, with Colorado leading 29-0 and having total control of the game at halftime, the majority of sane people went to bed.
Fortunately, I can’t stop watching football, so I continued to watch the game.
And what my friends and I saw was amazing.
The 4-2 Buffaloes, who last week narrowly avoided lowly Arizona State as Shedeur Sanders guided them down the field for the game-winning score in the final minute, completely dominated the first half. Travis Hunter made a full recovery from the liver laceration he sustained on a cheap shot against Colorado State in week three and immediately started to dominate on offense. He finished the game with 13 receptions for 149 yards and two offensive touchdowns.
But in the second half, the two-way player had a terrible defensive game.
Football is typically a very complicated sport at this level.
However, Stanford and its inexperienced head coach Troy Taylor decided to make fewer adjustments in the second half.
Throwing the ball to wide receiver Elic Ayomanor was the plan.
And without exaggeration, he had one of the greatest halves in the annals of college football.
All three of Ayomanor’s touchdowns came after the half, totaling 294 yards on 13 catches.
And many of those yards came at the expense of the lauded Travis Hunter.
With a little under 20 minutes left in the game, these two long touchdowns reduced the score from a rout to just ten points.
With just over 11 minutes left in the game, Shedeur Sanders connected with Hunter in the end zone for the second time to give Colorado a ten-point lead.
A further Cards touchdown had brought the score to 29-26.
The rest of overtime, however, was all Stanford as they scored ten unanswered points, including a 46-yard field goal by Joshua Karty at the buzzer to force overtime.
Deion Sanders and Colorado mysteriously chose to start the overtime period, and they quickly scored.
But Ayomanor’s outright incredible, play-of-the-year caliber play tied the match.
Shedeur Sanders made the first grave error of his Buffaloes career with this ill-advised interception in 2OT, effectively handing the game to Stanford.
Colorado received the ball to begin the second overtime.
On what would have otherwise been a sensational game in a fantastic season for Sanders, that is a terrible, terrible interception.
The 1-4 Cardinal gained their second victory after a few plays when Stanford kicked a chip shot field goal.
The biggest collapse in Colorado football’s century-long history has also occurred, and Coach Prime’s tenure has never been worse.
The Buffaloes’ chances of making a bowl game are bleak given their difficult remaining schedule.