Colorado coaching staff proved 3x champion HC wrong

Three-time national champion head coach Urban Meyer, whose Ohio State Buckeyes won the inaugural College Football Playoff and whose Florida Gators, flanked with Tim Tebow as a change-of-pace QB in 2006/07 and a previous Heisman winner by the time UF won in 2008/09, won a pair of BCS titles, had a strong endorsement of the Colorado football coaching staff — claiming that Deion Sanders hired “some really good coaches.”

“(Deion) has hired some really good coaches,” Meyer said (h/t Buffs Beat). “I went to the meetings and I watched practice. They have I believe seventy new players. I called this thing the grand experiment and I’m telling you, Colin… That was not what I expected. I saw a very good team with talented players.”

Meyer, although a controversial figure due to recent NSFW scandals we won’t delve into, is also a proven entity in the college football world. If he is willing to admit that he was wrong about what he thought he’d see and what he ended up seeing from the Buffaloes, it’s not a stretch to believe America could be due for the same during the 2023 season.

Urban Meyer compares star Colorado football transfer to Percy Harvin

Star Colorado football transfer Travis Hunter got a major compliment from Meyer in the form of a comparison to former Gators star Percy Harvin.

“I looked at Prime and said, ‘I had one of those called Percy Harvin,'” Meyer said. “I just pushed him to the side. You don’t need to practice (Hunter) much longer. He’s that good.”

Hunter is one of the game-changing transfers that would be responsible for CU outpacing expectations during the 2023 season. So many focus on the on-paper aspect of the team not having much playing time together, but not enough are focusing on the eye-popping on-paper aggregation of talent the Buffs possess.