Deion Sanders and Colorado Suffer Historic Choke Job, Blow Massive Lead In Second Half

Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes are must-watch television every weekend. And, if you stayed up until 2AM on the East Coast to watch the entirety of Colorado’s game against Stanford, you witnessed a historic collapse from Coach Prime’s team.

That being said, most sane people went to bed at halftime, as Colorado led 29-0 and was in complete control of the game. Thankfully, I’m addicted to watching football, So I kept the game on. And, what I and other saw was incredible.

The first half was complete domination for the 4–2 Buffaloes, who barely escaped lowly Arizona State last week as Shedeur Sanders led them down the field in the final minute for the game-winning score. Travis Hunter returned from the liver laceration he suffered on a cheap shot against Colorado State back in week three, and was dominating on offense early on. He finished with 13 catches for 149 yards and two touchdowns on offense. But, the two-way player had a nightmare performance on defense in the second half.

Football at this high of a level is normally an incredibly complex game. But, Stanford and first-year head coach Troy Taylor decided to simplify things in the second half. The Plan? Throw the ball to wide receiver Elic Ayomanor. And, he had one of the greatest halves in the history of college football, no exaggeration. Ayomanor had 294 yards on 13 catches and 3 touchdowns, all after halftime. And, plenty of those yards came against the ballyhooed Travis Hunter. These two long touchdowns got the game from a blowout to just ten points in with just under twenty minutes remaining.

Another Cards touchdown got it to 29-26, before Shedeur Sanders found Hunter in the end zone for the second time to put Colorado back up ten with just over 11 minutes remaining in the game. But, from then on, it was all Stanford the rest of overtime, as they scored ten unanswered, including a 46-yard field goal by Joshua Karty at the buzzer to send the game to overtime.

Colorado and Deion Sanders mysteriously elected to go first in overtime, but they scored pretty easily. But, this downright incredible, play-of-the-year typev play by Ayomanor tied the game.

Colorado got the ball to start the second overtime, but Shedeur Sanders made the first catastrophic mistake of his Buffaloes career with this ill-advised interception in 2OT to more-or-less hand the game to Stanford.

That is a terrible, terrible interception on what otherwise was a sensational game in a fantastic season for Sanders.

A few plays later, Stanford kicked a chip shot field goal, and the 1-4 Cardinal got their second win. Meanwhile, it’s the biggest collapse in the century-long history of Colorado football, and it’s the low point of the Coach Prime tenure so far. With a very diffcult schedule remaining, things are looking bleak for the Buffaloes to make a bowl game.