FORT COLLINS — The Colorado offensive line heard the noise. It was impossible not to.
It was coming from everywhere. Buffaloes fans and non-CU fans alike were taking part in the discourse after the Buffaloes offensive line was manhandled in the team’s disappointing loss last weekend at Nebraska. Shoot, even the team’s head coach and quarterback got in on the action.
“Protection was a problem,” Deion Sanders said in Lincoln. “I’m trying to be polite and say it because I can say the same thing you’re thinking, but if I say it, you’ll say I’m throwing my guys under the bus.”
“How many times did (Nebraska quarterback Dylan) Raiola get touched?” Shedeur Sanders added when asked about why the CU offense was outplayed by the Cornhuskers’.
In the days leading up to the rivalry game against Colorado State on Saturday, things flipped.