Overview
- Deion Sanders enters his fourth season at Colorado with a three-year record of 16-21 and he told reporters he does not feel pressure about his job.
- The program relocated preseason work to Colorado Springs and put limits on phones and outside food to speed team bonding among a largely new roster and coaching staff.
- Colorado completed a wide offseason reset that added new offensive and defensive coordinators and dozens of transfer players while losing multiple assistants.
- CBS Sports sharply downgraded Sanders in its coach rankings and his reported salary and large buyout have amplified scrutiny of whether the reset must produce immediate wins.
- Sanders says the transfer portal and NIL money make retention harder, Danny Scudero is recovering from a leg injury and expected to be ready for Week 1, and the staff is framing strict discipline as the way to manage turnover.