Boulder, CU- The 2025 Colorado football team is 3-6 after a blowout loss to Arizona after a 53-7 loss to Utah last week. The Buffaloes are also 1-3 for their last four games.
Head coach Deon Sanders, in an unprecedented move for the season, made himself the only person to talk to the media at the end of the game.
“No one will be available tonight, it’s just me,” he said. “Don’t attack the coordinators; come at me. Don’t attack the players; come at me. This has nothing to do with them; it has everything to do with me.”
On Saturday night at Folsom, the Buffaloes failed on all cylinders, falling 17-0 eight minutes in and 38-7 by halftime.
Colorado’s first touchdown was off a Kaidon Salter led drive. Throughout the season, Salter has started the majority of games, but the Buffaloes have switched to their second and third strings in attempts to find offensive success, a strategy Colorado tried against Arizona.
Overall, the offense had a season-high five turnovers and a season-high 13 penalties for 105 yards. Salter contributed two of those turnovers off an interception and fumble and finished the game with 49 yards passing. The defense didn’t fare much better and allowed Arizona to end the game with 417 yards and over 50 offensive points.
“We’re not executing, and that’s on me. I know this team personally, I know them intimately,” Sanders said. “And they don’t quit. I know when a player quits. I know that when I see it, and I haven’t seen it.”
Five-star freshman quarterback JuJu Lewis provided some relief with a 59-yard touchdown pass to Omarian Miller, to give Colorado their second and final touchdown of the game.
Arizona responded with a four play, 75-yard drive in the fourth quarter, sealing any opportunity for Colorado to comeback.
Sanders claims he’s struggling to see where the disconnect comes in between his team during the week at practice and during games. “It’s very frustrating not being able to put your finger on it,” he said. “Thinking that you’ve got it and you don’t is the hard part. Thinking you’re going to see it, and that you’re doing the right things, but you’re not. That’s on me”
Colorado heads to West Virginia next Saturday at 10 a.m. mountain time.
