"Deion hates FSU" - CFB fans left in splits over Coach Prime's comments about backing out in bowl games

Deion Sanders (Colorado
Deion Sanders [Image courtesy: @cubuffsfootball on Instagram]

The Colorado Buffaloes under coach Deion Sanders aka Coach Prime finished off the regular season in style, blowing out the Oklahoma State Cowboys 52-0 in Week 14 of college football action.

The Buffs' departing stars, quarterback Shedeur Sanders and the Heisman-contending Travis Hunter put on a show for the Folsom Field crowd in their last home game.

During his postgame news conference, the charismatic Colorado coach laid out his plans for the Buffs' bowl game while seeming to take a swipe at his former team, the Florida State Seminoles. Coach Prime said:

“Our kids are going to play in our bowl game. Because that’s what we signed up to do and we’re going to finish. We’re not going to tap out, because that throws off the structure of next season. There’s a couple teams that should take note. They laid an egg in the bowl game and they haven’t recovered since. We don’t plan on doing that."

The Seminoles were controversially snubbed for a spot in last season's four-team college football playoff despite an unbeaten regular season and an ACC championship win and proceeded to sit their starters for the New Year's Orange Bowl against the Georgia Bulldogs.

The Seminoles were blown out 63-3 as a result and have not recovered from the debacle leading to a horrendous 2-9 season after a lot of preseason hype under embattled coach Mike Norvell.

College football fans on X had mixed reactions to Coach Prime's comments.

Some fans saw right through the comments that seemed to be about FSU.

"I swear Deion hates FSU," one fan tweeted.
"He’s talking about Baby Brother Florida State," another fan tweeted.
"That's a nice way of saying that I am not coaching Florida State next season," one fan tweeted.

The Coach Prime vs. FSU beef

According to a 2023 report by The Athletic, the Florida State Seminoles where Coach Prime made a name for himself before he was drafted into the NFL, rejected him for a coaching job due to his coaching qualifications. Sanders then went back to school and graduated from HBCU (Historically Black Colleges & Universities), Talladega College in 2020.

During a news conference last season, Sanders refused to be referred to as a Seminole by a reporter instead claiming that he was a Talladega graduate:

“No, no, no … actually, do you know where I graduated from? I graduated from an HBCU. So I'm a who? No, I'm a who? I thought it's where you graduated from, isn't it? Why do you keep calling me that when you know where I graduated from? I'm an HBCU grad.”

The answer by Coach Prime caused a lot of controversy at the time since he made his name as a football player as a star for the Florida State Seminoles but he since seems to have dissociated from his alma mater and has taken a few shots at them in the media since then.

Edited by Jigyanshushri Mahanta
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