BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado head coach Deion Sanders held a news conference Tuesday morning as his team prepares to travel to the Valley of the Sun to play Arizona State.
Sanders and his Buffaloes (3-2) travel to Tempe this weekend to play the Arizona State Sun Devils (1-4). Kickoff is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. MT Saturday at the newly renamed Mountain America Stadium.
"Last week was not about expecations, last week was about winning," Sanders said. "This week is more about expecations than many of the other weeks because there's an expecation that we have of ourselves to go in an win this game. You want to win every game, but you really expect to win some games alot more than others."
"This game we expect to run the football this week, we've shown that we could last week. We expect to throw the ball successfully, we've shown that we can."
Saturday's game will air on the Pac-12 Network, the first that has not aired on Fox, ABC, or ESPN.
"We are going to be on somebody's television, I promise you that," Sanders said. "We got to go out there and exceed expectations, we really do. It doesn't matter if we're on a national stage or not. People understand that we're under, understand that we're coming, and they understand what we're building.
"So we have to have a consistency and a continuation especially early on. The challenge and the goal this week, we have to win the first and second quarter."
Colorado safety Shilo Sanders, who missed the game against Southern California due to injury, is back at practice, Coach Sanders said Tuesday.
> Watch below: Deion Sanders' press conference before Arizona State game:
Colorado has been the story of the early season, starting 3-2 after winning just one game last season. The Buffs jumped into The Associated Press college football poll rankings with an opening week upset of TCU.
The No. 9 Oregon Ducks' 42-6 blowout of Colorado on Sept. 23 knocked the Buffaloes all the way out of the AP Top 25 from No. 19.
Colorado then lost to No. 8 Southern California 48-41 on Saturday after making a big second-half comeback. The Trojans and Buffs are headed their separate directions next season — USC to the Big Ten and Colorado to the Big 12.
Freshman wide receiver Omarion Miller stepped up on offense with 196 yards on seven catches against USC.
Fellow freshman Cormani McClain, a five-star cornerback recruit, also had a breakout game in responding resoundingly to Coach Prime's admonition to hit the playbook as hard as he does receivers.
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