BOULDER, Colo. — Don’t expect Deion Sanders to sit around and scoreboard watch all weekend. Too much stress and anxiety.
“I’m not the type of guy to sit down and wish everyone loses so we could reach our goal,” said Sanders, whose team had the inside track to the conference championship before a 37-21 loss to Kansas last weekend. “I’m not built like that. We had an opportunity. We squandered it. The Buffaloes host a Cowboys team that has dropped eight straight since a 3-0 start. But they have offensive weapons in 2023 Doak Walker Award winner Ollie Gordon II and receiver Brennan Presley, who’s just the fourth player at Oklahoma State to eclipse 5,000 career all-purpose yards. Oklahoma State is coming off a 56-48 loss to Texas Tech.
“He’s arguably the best player in the country at what he does,” Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said. “He has a skillset that is through the roof.”A well-protected Shedeur Sanders is an accurate Shedeur Sanders as he’s completed 73.4% of his passes. His 3,488 yards passing are second-most for a season in Colorado history and just 40 yards away from surpassing the mark of 3,527 set by Koy Detmer in 1996. Sanders’ 30 TD passes are already the most in program history for a season.