BOULDER — Deion Sanders couldn’t decide which patch to put on Arden Walker’s jersey.

The Colorado coach doesn’t like to name specific captains, and no Buffaloes player wears the letter “C” on their jerseys. But Coach Prime does have ways to distinguish the top players on his roster. A few players wear the letter “L” for leaders and others wear the letter “D” for dawgs.

To Sanders, Walker is both.

“He's earned that,” Coach Prime said before the start of the season.

Unsurprisingly, there was a big ‘L” on Walker’s jersey during the season opener — the Denver native’s last in college football. But on the other side of his chest was another patch that means more to him than anyone else on the Buffs roster. It’s the one that says “Mac 82-94” in honor of the late Bill McCartney, the Hall of F

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