Oregon trounced Colorado football in downright stunning fashion in Week 4, decimating the Buffs 35-0 in the first half via 21 yards of offense for CU and five touchdowns from Bo Nix and the rest of the Ducks attack. Analysts across Twitter/X had varied responses to the narrative-shifting destruction.
“Most of us were very wrong about Colorado,” Split Zone Duo host Alex Kirshner prefaced before saying, “Today is important because now the ‘Deion can win a national title here’ crew can join the rest of us in recalibrating.”
“The discourse around Colorado has been exhausting,” Extra Points’s Matt Brown prefaced before saying, “They’re an improved, bowl-caliber team. There’s not national champion anything now and won’t be for a minute. That’s okay! Let them just be a fun Alamo Bowl team, not the most important thing in college football!”
“Colorado can have Travis Hunter, Hunter Renfrow, Bounty Hunter, Torii Hunter, Lindsey Hunter, Crocodile Hunter — Oregon is running that football, regardless,” Super Bowl XLVI Champion CB Will Blackmon wrote.
Dan Lanning at halftime: I hope everyone who’s been watching Colorado football every week is watching this week
Oregon head coach Dan Lanning has always been skeptical of (and borderline disrespectful toward) Coach Prime and Colorado football, but he backed up his previous trash talk with a definitive first-half statement; followed by a halftime interview zinger he wanted Buffs fans to take with them into the intermission.
Oregon coach Dan Lanning really wants to make a point about Colorado. I would advise he make it quickly. I think coaches are worried bout what Deion Sanders is building in Boulder. Colorado was 1-win last year. Ranked now. What happens in 2-3 years? pic.twitter.com/87hH65i10h
— Langston Wertz Jr. (@langstonwertzjr) September 23, 2023
“We were composed, we executed at a really high level, (but) we’re not done yet. We’re not satisfied,” Lanning prefaced before saying, “I hope all those people that have been watching every week are watching this week.”
Certainly, that soundbite will be one that defines Oregon’s destruction of Colorado more than anything Coach Prime could say after his team laid a goose egg on the brightest of stages; albeit without Travis Hunter.