BOULDER, CO – Coach Deion Sanders has been telling everybody for months that his new football team at Colorado this year is better than before, possibly even the “best team we’ve ever assembled,” as he said this week.

Then came their first game on Friday, Aug. 29 at sold-out Folsom Field.

And it turns out he might be a little off, at least for one game.

Georgia Tech beat Colorado 27-20 after Georgia Tech quarterback Haynes King scored the game-winning 45-yard touchdown run with 1:07 to go.

It was Sanders’ first game at Colorado without his two youngest sons playing for him: quarterback Shedeur and safety Shilo . Two-way star Travis Hunter also has moved on to the NFL after winning the Heisman Trophy last season with the Buffaloes.

In their place, Sanders fielded a new-look

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