A 19-point win and avoiding serious injuries were not enough for Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes on Saturday.

At the end of a 28-9 victory over Colorado State, Colorado had a chance to take a knee and put the game away after gaining a first down with less than two minutes left, but that’s not the path they took.

Instead, Colorado ran several offensive plays and threw several long passes to score another touchdown and make the outcome even more lopsided. Those efforts culminated in a fourth-down play where quarterback and Sanders’ son Shedeur Sanders dropped back and threw a pass for a loss of one yard while also being hit by a 300-pound Colorado State defensive player. They weren’t even willing to settle for a field goal.

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Head coach Deion Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes leaves the field after the game against the Colorado State Rams at Canvas Stadium on September 14, 2024 in Fort Collins. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

“We want to score,” Deion said in the postgame press conference when asked about the final drive. “The point of the game is to score points, right? I don’t know the protocol. They should call me and tell me when to pull away. As long as the other team is trying to score points, we’re trying to score points. That’s my rule.”

Shedeur suffered a broken back at the end of last season after being sacked 52 times in his first season with Colorado. Saturday’s decision to stay on at the end was a stark turnaround for Shedeur from last week, when he left Colorado’s 28-10 loss to Nebraska after taking a blow to the head and spending the final minutes in the locker room.

The Buffaloes’ decision on Saturday to potentially put their players in danger in pursuit of another touchdown also came against the same opponent that saw two-star Travis Hunter lacerate his liver on an illegal hit and be hospitalized in Colorado’s 43-35 double-overtime win last year.

The attempt to run up the score also came the same week that Colorado State players made it a point to badmouth Sanders’ program in the days leading up to the game.

Colorado State University’s Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi and Tory Horton provided Sanders and Co. with plenty of material for the bulletin board after boasting about it in an interview with CBS earlier this week.

“We should have killed those guys,” Horton said in the interview. “We’re coming for revenge.”

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Fowler-Nicolosi bragged about how close Colorado State kept the game last season despite being a clear underdog, then mocked Colorado for the amount of media attention the team gets.

“They’ve been rudely awakened. I think it shows that the hype, the media frenzy, only takes you so far,” Fowler-Nicolosi said. “We’ll see how far they get with Instagram followers.”

Sanders wasted no time criticizing Colorado State players for their postgame trash talk, even claiming one of the Rams players elbowed a Buffaloes coach.

Tawfiq Thomas of the Colorado Buffaloes carries the Centennial Cup after defeating the Colorado State Rams on September 14, 2024. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

“The disrespect has been uncalled for all week,” Sanders said. “A couple of their players have been attacking the whole program and some of our players. So it is what it is. We knew it was going to get a little personal before the game and it was. One of our coaches, Coach Phillips, during warm-ups … one of the guys ran into him and elbowed him, which is uncalled for. I just pray that our kids never act like that. Because I know you guys would have a blast if they did that.”

Colorado is not the first team this year to try to increase the score against an opponent in the closing minutes.

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Colorado head coach Deion Sanders speaks during the Big 12 NCAA College Football Media Days in Las Vegas on July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Lucas Peltier)

In Rutgers’ blowout win over Howard on August 30, Scarlet Knights head coach Greg Schiano had his team run a 38-7 offensive play instead of taking a knee. Instead, they scored another touchdown and won 44-7. Schiano expressed a similar sentiment to Sanders after that game, that they wanted to run plays, even in meaningless moments of the game.

“The guys have been practicing all training camp. They deserve to play,” Schiano said. “There was no running. If there was running, you don’t take timeouts when you have the ball. You let the game run out. This wasn’t retaliation. We wanted to make plays. We bring a team here to play us. We bring them here. We bring them in, we have to win and we have to get reps. And they were there, we took them.”

Colorado’s attempt to punish its cross-state rival with another point at the end of Saturday’s game resulted in no serious injuries.

As a newcomer to the Big 12, Colorado now faces its first conference game of the season when it faces Baylor next week.

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