‘Majority of country’ prefers Coach Prime’s Buffs over Washington’s Heisman

The “majority of the country” would prefer to see Coach Prime’s Colorado football program compete than No. 5 (as of Week 9) Washington and their Heisman candidate under center, Michael Penix Jr. — this, at least, according to BuffsBeat’s Josh Tolle, who boldly named his op-ed column “Nobody cares about Washington when you have Colorado and Deion Sanders.”

“The majority of the country isn’t waiting up to see Michael Penix Jr. continue his Heisman campaign,” Tolle prefaced before savagely saying, “We have highlight packages for that. They want to see Coach Prime work his magic and go against Chip Kelly. That’s what the people want and they’re going to happily flip over to watch it.”

Washington, unable to receive the Coach Prime ratings boost due to not being on the 2023 Colorado football schedule, is coming off a lackluster outing at home against ASU in which the Huskies needed a 12-point fourth quarter to outlast the Sun Devils. To be fair, though, lackluster doesn’t even begin to compare the Week 7 disasterclass of a second half against Stanford after ceding a 29-point lead at halftime.

Colorado football may end up having a more meaningful Week 9 game than Washington in the grand scheme

While it may sound crazy, Colorado’s Week 9 tilt against a ranked UCLA could end up being more meaningful than Washington’s battle at Stanford on October 28. Should the Pac-12 do what many figured it could heading into the season and have all the major teams trade wins, Coach Prime’s first season may be more important to the 2023 season’s lore in the grand scheme.

That would especially be the case should the Deion Sanders era in Boulder last shorter than his five-year deal with the University of Colorado. Any chance to see these Buffs should be taken advantage of by anyone remotely interested in the sport.