Colorado State Players Send Warning to Colorado: 'We're Coming For Revenge'

In a game with little national significance prior to the 2023 season, the "Rocky Mountain Showdown" between the Colorado Buffaloes and Colorado State Rams has emerged as one of the more heated rivalries in college football.

We saw the Rams' head coach, Jay Norvell, put Deion Sanders on blast for wearing sunglasses when talking to the media. His wife also said Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders "acted like a B" in a social media post after the Buffs beat the Rams 43-35 in double overtime.

Ahead of the team's meeting on Saturday, two of Colorado State's star players added some fuel to the fire, with receiver Tory Horton saying that the Rams should have "murdered" the Buffs last year.

“We owe them one,” Horton told Romi Bean of CBS Colorado. “And that’s something that’s been sitting on everybody’s mind since we came back from break. We owe them one and we walked away from that game as we kind of left it all in the field. I don’t feel like we left it all on the field, because we should have murdered them guys and. They came out with that attitude as they were on top of the world, and this ain’t no Cinderella story. We’re coming for revenge.”

The Rams did lead 21-14 at the half, and also led by eight points with two minutes remaining in the game before Shedeur Sanders led the offense 98 yards down the field to tie it up and send it to overtime.

Quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi also made it quite clear that he felt the Buffs came into last year's game far too confident.

“They came out with that attitude and thought it was gonna be a cakewalk,” Fowler said. “They saw the reports, 27 and a half points, or whatever it was, and they got a rude, rude awakening real quick. And I think it goes to show that the hype, the media train, all that — it only gets you so far at the end of the day.

“At the end of the day, you have to line up 11 guys against our 11 guys, and we’ll find out who wants it more. We’ll see how far Instagram followers gets them.”

While Colorado went into last season's meeting as hot as any team in the sport and as massive favorites, things are a bit different this time around. They were embarrassed on the big stage in Week 2, losing 28-10 to the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The week before that, they narrowly escaped North Dakota State.

Their odd start to the season has clearly led oddsmakers not to be as high on them, as ESPN has them as just a touchdown favorite.

The shots have been one-sided thus far, as Colorado's head coach had nothing but nice things to say about Norvell's wife when asked about her comments.

“I’m not looking for an apology,” Sanders said. “I just met her. She was delightful.”

Both teams are at 1-1 on the season and would love to beat their in-state rival, and since the game is on CBS, it should draw a large crowd like last year's game. A showdown that saw 9.3 million people tune in.

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