The first game of Year 3 of the Deion Sanders era at Colorado ended abruptly when he elected not to use his remaining two timeouts on his team's final drive during a 27-20 loss to Georgia Tech .

After Georgia Tech quarterback Haynes King scored a go-ahead 45-yard rushing touchdown with 1:07 remaining to put the Yellow Jackets up seven, Colorado got the ball back -- with two timeouts -- with a chance to potentially send the game to overtime. Instead, Colorado's offense managed to go just 25 yards on six plays, and a Hail Mary attempt by quarterback Kaidon Salter on the final play of the game fell incomplete.

After the loss, Sanders defended the decision not to use his timeouts , stating that it "didn't make sense" to call them with how the final drive played out. Four days l

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