Colorado football predicted to not finish at either extreme during 2024 season

Deion Sanders' Colorado football team isn't going to be a world beater nor a bottom-feeder during the 2024 season according On3's JD PicKell -- who believes the Buffs will end up somewhere in between in Coach Prime's second go-round in Boulder.

“So, the preseason win total in Vegas, the over-under, is set at 5.5 wins for Colorado,” PicKell said. “I would be very careful for us to not buy into the extremes of the narratives out there around Colorado.

“Because while I’m all for extremes. I’m all for things being the greatest of all time or the worst of all time like I always think that’s a fun talking point to pick apart. It’s very rarely the case. The extremes you hear with Colorado are they’re gonna make the College Football Playoff, they’re gonna win the Big 12. The other extremes you hear is Deion Sanders is gonna win two football games. I have a hard time buying too far into either of those for us right now as we sit here in July.”

Deion Sanders set the bar at six wins for Colorado football in 2024

At the Black and Gold spring game, Coach Prime set the bar at six wins for CU in 2024; promising Buffs superfan Peggy Coppom a bowl game.

Perusing the schedule, there're no gimme's. Even the FCS school AD Rick George put on the schedule, North Dakota State, is a powerhouse in the D1-AAA level. While the Big 12 doesn't have many potential College Football Playoff candidates like the Pac-12 did -- which had runner-up Washington and Oregon at the top of the heap and part-time contenders like USC -- it does have more depth than perhaps any conference in the country. It's not implausible for half the conference to finish within a game or two of each other in the standings.

Six wins is a fair expectation. The overreactions will be plentiful if they can nudge past it, but if they fail to eclipse four games, or worse, regresses record-wise, a push to remove "Prime Time" from CU feels imminent.