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Oct 20, 2026 at 07:43 PM EDT
The Colorado Buffaloes showed fight on Saturday, but fell to No. 10 Utah 27-24 at home to fall to 2-4 on the season.
The loss to the Utes was the fourth in a row for Colorado. Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders cut a few "knuckleheads" that he was afraid would "poison" the team after CU's 41-7 loss to Northwestern on Sept. 19.
On Tuesday, Sanders said his locker room was in good shape despite the four-game losing streak after dismissing a few rotten apples early in the season. No one is pointing fingers and causing disruption at Colorado before the team next travels to play Oklahoma State in Week 8.
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"I'm trying to say this carefully. I got rid of that," Sanders said, via ESPN. "That's why you don't see that, you don't hear that. They don't think like that. They don't operate like that. These guys are united in there together.
"Nobody's sitting up there anymore going off on the sideline like, 'The offense ain't doing this' or 'The defense didn't get a stop.' That's not in this locker room. This is not that kind of party, and I'm proud of that."
Sanders went 4-8 in his first season at Colorado. The Buffaloes finished 9-4 in 2024, the last season Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders were on the team. Since Hunter and Shedeur left for the NFL, Colorado has gone 5-13 overall and 1-11 in Big 12 play.
Sanders said there's no quit in his team despite how Colorado's record looks in October.
"These young men are not to be counted out. The staff is not to be counted out," Sanders said. "I really hope you don't count me out because I'm going to fight, regardless of whatever's in front of me. That's just who we are and how we're built. I don't think you see quit in 99% of the team."
Colorado's play against Utah was evidence enough that the program isn't folding on the season. How long Sanders can keep the locker room if the losses pile up remains to be seen.
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