BOULDER — Watching a Deion Sanders team try to run the ball is akin to watching a Ford Mustang try to plow snow. The engine screams like a banshee while the wheels spin furiously to nowhere.

“I don’t think we’re in a car just running aimlessly the wrong way,” the CU Buffs’ third-year coach said during his weekly news conference Tuesday. “I don’t feel that way. I feel like we could be better. And we are better. We just had a hiccup here and a hiccup there that disarmed us in its totality.”

The Houston Cougars just hiccupped CU for 209 rushing yards and three touchdowns last Friday. The Buffs, meanwhile, ran for 96 on 23 tries — having to give up early in the fourth quarter when the Cougars forged a 33-14 lead.

Coach Prime vowed his Buffs (1-2) would run the ball with more consiste

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