Deion Sanders makes costly time management mistake, which helps Oregon State beat Colorado by seven

Publish date: 2024-04-13

It has been a very up-and-down season so far for Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes, and an embarrassing mistake on Saturday has led to a lot of ridicule for the college football coach.

Sanders was in the news for a different reason earlier in the week when he demoted his offensive coordinator Sean Lewis in an attempt to shake things up.

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Their offense has been really struggling lately and now some very silly mistakes have started happening on the field.

With 50 seconds left to go in the half in their Saturday duel with Oregon State, the Buffaloes were near their own end zone and Sanders decided to throw the ball instead of running out the clock.

After throwing two incompletions, Oregon State were able to call a timeout and force a punt. With a short field, the Beavers scored with 20 seconds left in the half.

Deion Sanders takes responsibility for poor clock management

After the game, which ended 26-19 to Oregon State, Sanders spoke to the press about the loss by seven points, the amount scored by the opposition at the end of that first half.

"We dropped the pass, we should have run the ball," Sanders said afterwards.

"That's on me. I take full responsibility.

"We have to get out of the half, we can't do nothing stupid like that."

Sanders also spoke about the decision to demote Sean Lewis.

"We're not going to demean Sean Lewis, we're not going to take that tone," Sanders said.

"Sean is a good man, I think he is a good playcaller.

"We just needed change at the time. We needed to try something else at the time, and that's what we did.

"I don't look back on it. I don't second-guess myself whatsoever, because there's more to it than what you may know. Let's just trust the process.

"I make a decision to help this team win. You guys don't know all the intangibles yet. You're just looking from the outside of the crib, looking in.

"I got tinted windows and you can't even see in the house, but you're making conclusions on what I should and should not do."

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