Keeler: Deion Sanders needs clock management coach. His CU Buffs are running out of time to salvage 2025

BOULDER Coach Prime you re running out of time Time to fix clock management mistakes Time to get the Buffs over the line late against a good group Time to salvage the roughest stretch of CU s football season But first let s get the elephant out of the way Is there a bigger mismatch in college football right now than Deion Sanders vs the clock CU s - loss to No BYU turned into Georgia Tech II in all the worst techniques Rushing quarterback running to daylight Two timeouts burning a hole in Coach Prime s pocket while a better running crew bleeds out the clock With left and CU trailing by three the Buffs called a timeout CU then came out of that to punt which was stimulating BYU burned of what was left Buffs QB Kaidon Salter threw a pick with seconds to go and that was that Again Could someone get Coach Prime a timeout coach A time manager Imagine where this CU season could be if the Buffs - - Big learned how to finish games as well as they ve been starting them Mind you that won t change much while the QB Keeper is still CU s killer At several point the Buffs are going to make an opposing signal-caller earn it on the ground Although Heaven only knows when BYU freshman QB Bear Bachmeier was last seen running down th Street untouched late Saturday night This was after the Cougars signal-caller torched CU for yards on carries while completing of throws Tech QB Haynes King ran for yards and three touchdowns Houston signal-caller Conner Weigman ran for and two scores Take away two kneel-downs for minus- yards that ate clock at the very end and Bachmeier rambled for The latter looked like a baby Tebow out there only without the funky arm action At -foot- and pounds he shifts to escape mode in about half a second invariably leaning forward legs perpetually churning Colorado defensive tackle Alexander McPherson right tackles BYU quarterback Bear Bachmeier left at Folsom Field in Boulder on Saturday Sept Matthew Jonas Staff Photographer At one point late in the third quarter the Cougars QB escaped what looked like about three Buffs defenders on second-and- at the CU chugging and dancing what should ve been a -yard loss into an -yard gain Two plays later on fourth-and- at the Buffs Bachmeier located wideout Chase Roberts for a short toss in the end zone to give BYU its first lead of the night - a run of three straight unanswered scores He wasn t done Down - Bachmeier lined up on third-and- at his with seconds left in the third stanza The frosh tucked zoomed and slid for yards largely on his own BYU converted the fourth-and- on the next play extending the drive one that finished with a -yard Cougars jet sweep for what turned out to be the game-winning sum That play CU safety Tawfiq Byard reported is killing me right now Don t look at the October fight card friends Iowa State quarterback Rocco Becht just ran for three touchdowns against Arizona Utah s got a QB who carries it times per tilt To start November Wildcats QB Noah Fifita was responsible for as countless rushing scores three going into the weekend as all of the Buffs tailbacks had put up combined It s a shame too given how CU began the evening with its collective hair on fire And that might ve sold their tempo short the Buffs raged as if someone had made them all watch a play-by-play of last December s Alamo Bowl on a -hour loop With no bathroom breaks The Buffs racked up yards on their first eight first downs CU s first quarter-and-a-half of offense was arguably its best start in the two-plus seasons of offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur s sometimes um unpopular reign The hosts weren t just quick They were clinical CU marched yards on plays to start the encounter with Salter conducting the offense at a hurry-up tempo The faster CU went the more at ease its signal-caller looked putting the bigger Cougars on their heels On second-and-goal from the BYU Salter backpedaled to his left spun away from a Cougars defender cut back left and weaved through traffic to the end zone giving CU a - lead five minutes into the challenge before the extra point CU s second possession was even more frenetic than the first spanning yards on four plays and a touchdown in seconds Running back Micah Welch exploded for yards on the first play of the drive while wideout all-purpose rocket Dre Lon Miller took the direct snap out of the Wildcat formation for a -yard gain from the BYU then a -yard figure with left in the first quarter that extended CU s lead to - Third drive Two sacks No points We had a tremendous amount of opportunities but we didn t cash in on them Sanders reflected after the challenge and sometimes it felt like the moment was just too big for particular of our athletes Too big for particular of the coaches too Especially at the end Colorado head coach Deion Sanders front confers with defensive coordinator Robert Livingston late in the second half of an NCAA college football meeting against Brigham Young Saturday Sept in Boulder Colo AP Photo David Zalubowski