‘Arguably college football’s best player’ has demand for Colorado teammates

“Arguably college football’s best player,” Travis Hunter, finds it hard to comprehend his Colorado football teammates aren’t on his level of focus, relayed BuffsBeat’s Nick Ferguson — this in a response to No. 12’s approval of Coach Prime’s callout following the Week 7 Stanford debacle.

“It’s hard for Hunter to comprehend why anyone wouldn’t take football seriously,” Ferguson wrote. “The nation’s former top recruit opted to join Sanders at Jackson State and then followed him to Colorado. He’s arguably college football’s best player and wants everyone of his teammates on his level. Hunter bottled up his frustration following the Buffaloes blown lead against Stanford, but he’s ready to come back stronger.”

Blowing a first-half lead against Stanford and falling 46-43 in double overtime in Boulder, the Buffs showed its most remarkable lack of focus the entire season. That apathy reared its ugly head during the Rocky Mountain Showdown against Colorado State, but Shedeur Sanders bailed out Colorado in double overtime. It happened again in Tempe against ASU, but kicker Alejandro Mata, and some more late-game Shedeur heroics, bailed out the Buffs in another game in which they were favored.

That didn’t happen against Stanford, so Hunter understood why Coach Prime was so hard on his guys.

“Stuff like that makes you get to second-guessing,” Hunter prefaced on October 16 before saying, “Do you love this game or do you just like it? Do you like to play it because it’s fun? And I get what he said right there, man.”

Colorado football has reflecting to do during bye week with Pac-12 buzzsaw on other end of it

Five of CU’s final six opponents have been ranked this season, so the backend of the final Colorado football Pac-12 schedule will be a certifiable buzzsaw to close out the debut season of “Prime Time” in Boulder.

With the “gimme” win of Stanford not given, and Arizona improving to the point where CU might be the underdog on November 11, the Buffs need to do some deep reflection and come out on the other side ready to prove to Coach Prime and the world that they do love this game.

Because they do, but if CU loses like that again, these questions will have to be asked by Deion Sanders and the media circus that follows him.