Colorado vs Oregon 0-35 at half! The bubble bursts!!!

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Sorry Deon.
When you have to play 2 overtimes to defeat Colorado State, you are not a great football team.

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EUGENE, Oregon – Coach Deion Sanders and his “Cinderella story” finally ran out of magic here Saturday. And it wasn’t even close. After three weeks of hype and momentum, Sanders’ Colorado football team missed tackles on defense, got bowled over on offense and lost at Oregon, 42-6.

As it turned out, Oregon coach Dan Lanning almost seemed to know what was coming before the game, when he gave a harsh assessment of Coach Prime and the upstart Buffaloes (3-1) in a pregame speech to his players.

“The Cinderella story is over, man,” Lanning told them before the game. “They’re fighting for clicks. We’re fighting for wins. There’s a difference, right? There’s a difference. This game ain’t gonna be played in Hollywood. It’s gonna be played on the grass.”

Not long after that, Oregon had built a 35-0 lead by halftime. Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders had led his team to only 21 yards of total offense at that point as his blockers struggled to stop the Oregon onslaught amid a loud green and yellow crowd of 59,889 at Autzen Stadium.

Sanders, the coach’s son, had entered the game as a Heisman Trophy candidate but was outgunned from the start by another Heisman candidate, Bo Nix, the quarterback for Oregon. Nix led the Ducks (4-0) to touchdowns on their first three possessions and completed 22 of 24 passes for 217 yards and three touchdowns in the first half alone, not including another touchdown by him on an 11-yard run right before halftime.

His favorite target was receiver Troy Franklin, who caught two of those touchdowns before halftime and had 126 yards receiving in the first half.

The Ducks racked up 22 first downs before halftime, compared to four for Colorado, who now face No. 5 Southern California next week at home. —