The Colorado football team does not plan on falling in line with the trend of key players sitting out a bowl game, even if that game is not part of the College Football Playoff.

The regular season concluded, Deion Sanders waxed philosophical Friday afternoon after his second Colorado squad trampled woeful Oklahoma State, 52-0, for its ninth win of the season. More than double the Buffaloes's four-win 2023 campaign; nine times that of its single-win '22 season that prompted the hiring of Sanders.