Deion Sanders looked exhausted when he stepped in front of the cameras following Colorado’s 29-22 loss to West Virginia on Saturday. It was a defeat that officially clinched a losing season for the Buffaloes at 3-7. This was the third straight for Colorado, expanding a brutal stretch where they’d been outscored 134-46 over their last three games after previous blowouts to Utah (53-7) and Arizona (52-17).

Sanders, who usually carries himself with unshakable confidence, looked genuinely broken as he tried to explain what’s gone wrong with a program that went 9-4 just last season and had given Boulder hope for the first time in years. “We collectively got to do a much better job, and that starts with me. I gotta do a much better job,” Sanders said, his frustration bubbling over. “You think I

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