Believe in Sanders Colorado Buffs!

Mike Golic Jr. and Sr. hear the Pac-12 oud and clear

The Colorado Buffalos are for real. Yes, they had to survive a scare from in-state rival Colorado State Rams, but Head Coach Deion Sanders has them ready on Boulder.

Mike Golic and Gojo (Mike Jr) joined NFL33 to look at how the Pac-12 has withstood its misfortune to shine as the NCAA football has started HOT! Video only on NFL33!

After that performance for the Buffs, do you believe as Deion wants to know?

You know what? I'm still, I'm starting to believe more, you know, Mike and I have talked about this.

He's using this to put a chip on his shoulder and his players shoulders, right? Because let's look at the broad scope of this. He was a high school coach, was Deion, one of the greatest players ever play the game. Then he was a high school coach and he went to Jackson State and had a lot of success there, but never with a power five. So he comes to a power five and Deion's always been a big talker about what he's going to do.

But you can understand trepidation.

I certainly had a saying, okay, you've got 86 new players on a 111 team. You can't even say what the 111 team was last year, because all those players are gone. So the expectation wasn't real high right out of the gate. It didn't mean he couldn't build to that. But to have 86 new players play an entire game and have just six penalties shows great discipline by the coaches and by the players.

So am I starting to believe?

Yes, the best thing and the more important thing is player I guarantee you players going into that first game still weren't sure. But now you've got them believing and saying you know what all the stuff we did worked at least for game one.  So I'm buying in I still

I'll say it. I think I believe like I don't know what that nets you.

I always put that caveat.

I don't know what that nets you this season over the course of a long season right where depth is going to get tested where you're going to go matchups that may not work into your favor strengths and weaknesses wise as well as it did with TCU.

The bottom line is they went on the road week one and beat a team in that Texas Heat that played in the national championship last year and there are a lot of new parts TCU met them somewhere in the middle right with

Everything that they lost on offense with the coordinator that they lost there and all the change they were weathering But you had gone through the change last year already with a very good coach

In Sunny Dykes for TCU and they went out there and never once blinked did Colorado and so they'll lose the element of surprise.

All the things that we know are realistic about football over the course of a long season, but do I believe more now in the long-term viability of what Dion's building there?

Yeah, because he always had the flash that was going to sell tickets, sell those, you know, get the spring game packed, all those different things.

He's gone out here and shown now at the next jump up in level in college football that he's ready to instill a lot of that same culture, even though I know it's a word he hates around that team and it's been effective in the early going in a situation like dad said that just is a crucible we've never seen in college football.