Analyst calls Colorado football frauds after Oregon loss: ‘Resembled 2022’

Mike Farrell Sports’ Scott Salomon went scorched earth on Coach Prime’s Colorado football team after a brutal 42-6 loss to Oregon at Autzen Stadium in Eugene on September 23 in one of Week 4’s most lopsided beatdowns — calling the Buffs “frauds” and insinuating that CU looked like the 2022 team in Week 4.

“After the final whistle in Saturday’s 42-6 loss at Oregon, the Buffaloes resembled the 2022 Colorado team that went 1-11,” Salomon prefaced before saying, “The clock struck midnight, Cinderella left the ball and her gown turned into old raggedy hand-me-downs. Colorado was exposed as the fraud that they are and proved that their three-game winning streak against teams that are worse than they are, were nothing but preseason, pointless victories against inferior teams.

“There is no mistaking this team for a championship program and Coach Prime’s stock and that of his team is dropping faster than the value of his son and quarterback’s Shedeur Sanders’ Rolls Royce Maybach.”

Analyst reaching in order to kick Colorado football while they are down

This wasn’t Salomon’s first shot at Coach Prime’s Colorado football program, and like the others, this one was an exceptional reach.

Saying that Colorado resembled the 2022 team after one loss essentially means that any one-off blowout loss means all the progress prior to it is erased. Just like when Oregon fell 49-3 to Georgia during the 2022 season’s opening kickoff. Or when Alabama knocked off Georgia in the 2021 SEC Championship 41-24; this a month before the rematch went 33-18 in the Dawgs’ favor in the College Football Playoff Championship.

One can cherry-pick individual results all they want to prove a broader point. CU’s first conference road game under Deion Sanders in a notoriously tough-to-play in Autzen Stadium against an Oregon team that features a Heisman candidate and a roster capable of claiming the conference is just one hell of an easy target.