Deion Sanders, Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter and now-Disagree. 22 Colorado are the debate of faculty soccer. 

Next beating then-Disagree. 17 TCU — which reached the Faculty Soccer Playoff Championship final season — at the street final weekend, Colorado takes on longtime rival Nebraska on “Big Noon” (12 p.m. ET, FOX) Saturday in what’s the previous’s house opener.

At the Colorado facet, its head professor is fired up for the contention recreation. 

“I’ve learned the severity, the serious nature of this rivalry, and I’m embracing it 100%,” Sanders said Tuesday. “This is personal. That’s the message of the week.”

Colorado and Nebraska have confronted off 71 occasions with the Cornhuskers 49-20-2 all-time in opposition to the Buffaloes. Their final matchup got here in 2019 with Colorado profitable in time beyond regulation, 34-31.

The 2 faculties impaired to be within the Heavy 12 — prior to now the Heavy 8 and Heavy 7 — as they performed each and every alternative each season from 1948-2010 earlier than Colorado moved to the Pac-12 and Nebraska moved to the Heavy Ten in 2011. They’ve performed two times since converting meetings (2018 and 2019). Satirically, Colorado goes again to the Heavy 12 in 2024.

As for Colorado’s quarterback, who threw for 510 yards and 4 touchdowns at TCU final life, he too is all-in on embracing the contention.

“We just know the history of it, [at] Colorado we don’t like Nebraska. Simple. That’s just what it is,” Sanders said Tuesday. “We just gotta focus on that. Okay, cool, we don’t like Nebraska, but that’s not really gonna change the preparation or anything like that because we prepare like nobody likes us cause we know we’re going to get everybody’s best game. It’s just a little bit more motivation, but we gotta already be motivated.”

Sanders additionally mentioned that he’s telling population to not put on crimson (Nebraska’s number one staff colour) within the Colorado facility.

As for Nebraska, it’s coming off a gut-wrenching last-second loss to Minnesota in Life 1, 13-10, a recreation that noticed it flip the ball over 4 occasions. Matt Rhule is in his first season as Nebraska’s head professor.

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