Deion Sanders: Zero Colorado players will opt out of Alamo Bowl

The full complement of Colorado players and Sanders Family can be counted on for the Alamo Bowl this month.

Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders said the game against BYU in San Antonio will be steeped with emotion as the final time he'll coach his sons -- quarterback Shedeur Sanders and safety Shilo Sanders.

"This is gonna be our last game," Sanders said of coaching his boys one final game. "And you talk about monumental. You talking about something that we started from the youth league. And guess what? It started right here in Texas."

The Buffaloes were pointed toward the Big 12 Championship in November until a surprising upset against Kansas.

A win over BYU on Dec. 28 would give Colorado a 10-win season for the first time since 2016. The Buffaloes won four games in 2023.

Colorado junior cornerback and wide receiver Travis Hunter is expected to be handed the Heisman Trophy on Saturday in New York. Hunter and Shedeur Sanders are projected to be early first-round picks in the 2025 NFL Draft. Both transferred to Colorado from Jackson State to follow Deion Sanders.

Deion Sanders said both players -- and the rest of their teammates -- are not opting out to protect themselves physically ahead of the move to the professional ranks.

"Every last one of them are gonna play," Deion Sanders said. "We don't tap out. We don't sit out. This is a blessing to play this wonderful game.

"Our kids are going to play in our bowl game because that's what we signed up to do. We're going to finish. We're not going to tap out because that throws off the structure of next season."

--Field Level Media