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Coach Prime for Coach of the Year? What Colorado needs to do for HC to win award

By Andrew Hughes

CBS Sports' Barrett Sallee laid out what Coach Prime can do to warrant Coach of the Year consideration for the Colorado Buffaloes Mandatory Credit: Soobum Im-USA TODAY Sports
CBS Sports' Barrett Sallee laid out what Coach Prime can do to warrant Coach of the Year consideration for the Colorado Buffaloes Mandatory Credit: Soobum Im-USA TODAY Sports /
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CBS Sports’s Barrett Sallee took the road less traveled following Colorado’s 42-6 Week 4 decimation at the hands of the Oregon Ducks; figuring out a way Coach Prime can still win the Coach of the Year award by season’s end despite the blowout.

Sallee’s road to individual success for Deion Sanders in his first campaign in Boulder wouldn’t even require much from the Buffs — instead, it’d simply need Colorado to be bowl-eligible by the final whistle of November 25’s matchup against Utah.

“Colorado believers and Colorado skeptics can now come together,” Sallee prefaced before saying, “Before the season, most of us (myself included) thought the Buffaloes were in for a 3-9 or 4-8 season. The 3-0 start was nothing short of magical. However, anybody who thought they’d be an upper-tier bowl team was kidding themselves. If they get to 6-6 — which I now think that they will — Deion Sanders should get consideration for Coach of the Year.”

Coach Prime won’t win Coach of the Year with multiple programs coming into their own

The Coach of the Year in 2022 was TCU’s Sonny Dykes, who led the Horned Frogs to an unlikely College Football Playoff Championship appearance following a massive transfer portal overhaul the preceding offseason.

Coach Prime definitely did the overhaul part, but to anyone who thinks Colorado has a chance to replicate TCU’s run, I have a bridge to sell in Brooklyn.

With programs like Florida State and Texas remaining undefeated through the first four weeks of the 2023 season, there’s a good chance the head coach of one of those emerging programs, Mike Norvell or Steve Sarkisian, will have a better case than Colorado will. Ditto for Kirby Smart if he can get Georgia back into the CFP with a new quarterback.

Sallee’s premise is nice, but that is as unrealistic as the CFP expectations newer Buffs fans have been assigning to CU.

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