Pat McAfee, Nick Saban share fears they have for Colorado football on College GameDay

Pat McAfee doesn't believe Deion Sanders' Colorado football program is proving itself as a good football team -- and claimed that no one believes Colorado is a good football team on the Week 3 edition of ESPN College GameDay from Columbia, South Carolina. Nick Saban, meanwhile, expressed concerns about the Buffs' chemistry.

That's not a guy you want worrying about team chemistry. Saban knows a thing or two about what it takes to make a great team around stars. He propped up Bryce Young into a Heisman winner in 2021 after losing another Heisman, DeVonta Smith, and Jayden Waddle in one offseason.

McAfee doesn't believe the Buffs have the right stars around Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter. And after what we saw from CU in an embarrassing Week 2 loss against Nebraska, it's hard to deny that.

Colorado football still doesn't have the pieces to build a winner around Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter

Colorado's offensive line turned out to be as disappointing as some thought a line built through the transfer portal of lower-tier Power 4 programs, Group of 5 schools, and FCS teams against Nebraska would.

Perhaps that was an anomaly. Nebraska is well-built in the trenches and the Buffs may have never stood a chance visiting Big Ten country in the team's first road game and Power 4 game of the season. But it's hard not to expect struggles after the running game looked rudderless for a second straight year and Shedeur was brought down in the backfield five times.

McAfee is fair to doubt Colorado's ceiling and wonder if Coach Prime can get the most out of his men with his motivational tactics considering the roster may just be too undermanned to overcome.

Those doubts will grow -- and shared by every objective observer of the sport -- if things don't turn around for Sanders and Co. soon.