Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes are making sure people know they aren’t “irrelevant.”
Football season is all the way back, and both fans and the certified haters area already in mid-season form. Last year’s media darling in college football, the Colorado Buffaloes, have quickly become a team that casual football watchers love to hate. Head coach Deion Sanders and his team know that, and they’ll likely try to use that as fuel throughout the season.
They got their season kicked off last Thursday against the North Dakota State Bison, an FCS (level down from FBS) powerhouse that absolutely no one wants to see as their first game of the season. Colorado had to pull out all of the stops to win, and there were plenty of exciting plays to go around in what ended up being a shootout that came out in Colorado’s favor. The Buffaloes took down the feisty Bison 31 to 26, and there’s one pivotal play that contributed to that win that’s been talked about since the game concluded: Shedeur Sanders alleged fake cramp in the second quarter.
Millions of people watched as Colorado quite literally did everything they could to win, even faking an injury to get a free timeout and stop the clock in the first half. And speaking of the millions that viewed the game, Colorado boasted yesterday that their matchup with NDSU was the most watched Thursday Night Opener on ESPN in seven years.
5.6 million tuned in to watch Coach Prime in prime-time:
Needless to say, that’s a ton of people tuning in to watch a college football game between what would honestly be considered two lowly squads – when you speak in terms of Power Four football (used to be Power Five, but the PAC-12 dissolving knocked it down to P4).
Colorado should be able to brag about that a bit, and as you can see, they captioned the graphic with a simple “Irrelevant” quote poking at all of the haters who say the Buffaloes don’t deserve all of the attention that they get. And guess what? The haters didn’t like that they were called out (imagine that), so they chirped back in the reply section below the post undercutting the 5.6 million viewers that Colorado got for their 2024 debut:
First game of the year solo primetime slot people would have watched Colorado Tech vs. South Harman Institute of Tech.
— Zack Thomas (@TFel922) September 2, 2024
Yes, we all watched hoping you would lose
— Hunter Ming (@Hming45) September 2, 2024
Just to see em almost lose to a D10 school
— TucoBERG (@tuco_berg) September 2, 2024
We all watched because we knew you were potentially going to lose to an FCS team, and it was a Thursday.
— Joel Chandler (@jcteaman) September 2, 2024
Even the haters can’t help but watch
— Woke Infection (@wokeinfection) September 2, 2024
You were the only game on a Thursday night https://t.co/PgTUOiqrtv
— Derrico Henrio (@derrico_henrio) September 2, 2024
Week Zero on a Thursday.. Tumbleweeds season for sports, don't get too proud. https://t.co/LW1niYtPNT
— Rooted in Substance (@LakerH8tr) September 2, 2024
Imagine bragging your game was the most watched against ndsu and not knowing it was the most watched because people thought they would lose. https://t.co/WYfnLBplkz
— #9〽️ichigan Wolverines 1-0 (@thaboxxghost) September 2, 2024
Only game on. CSU gonna dog walk yall. https://t.co/FNiNYM8vcY
— Jeremy Snow (@Jeremysnow_33) September 2, 2024
