Colorado Buffaloes are massively overrated in new College Football 25 team ratings

The Deion Sanders era continues to produce unexpected results for the Colorado Buffaloes program. While the gaming world is getting antsy with the days counting down until College Football 25 releases in a few weeks, EA Sports released its top team ratings for the 2024 season. The Colorado team rating stunned everyone.

Where does Colorado rank, and what does Travis Hunter, Shedeur Sanders, and Deion Sanders have to do with it?

Colorado Team Rating in College Football 25

We all expected teams like Ohio State, Georgia, Oregon, and Texas to be at the top of the offensive, defensive, and cumulative team ratings in College Football 25. But what wasn't in the cards was Sanders' Colorado program. Last year, Colorado finished just 4-8 and saw an offseason filled with more transfer portal drama .

Instead of Colorado ranking as a mid-tier team with a stellar quarterback in Shedeur Sanders, cornerback and wide receiver Travis Hunter, and influential head coach Deion Sanders, the Buffaloes are loaded. They're tied with LSU as an 86.5 overall team, good for 10th in the nation.

This puts them ahead of Florida State, Oklahoma, USC, Michigan, Tennessee, and Texas A&M. Colorado would be double-digit underdogs to each of those teams even in Boulder during the winter.

The best argument for Colorado rating so highly is they return the 15th-most production from last year and added key transfer Dallan Hayden from Ohio State. However, the trench play is still a huge question mark, and there are zero major NFL draft prospects on the defense besides Hunter.

Despite this, Colorado's defense is tied with several other major programs that clearly have years of better recruiting and development. This was a unit that finished 124th in points allowed last year. This is insanity.

The offense was better in 2023, ranking 60th and boasting Sanders and Hunter as real threats who will be first round picks. However, they're rated as an 89 on offense, tied with Ohio State and Missouri, and ahead of Utah, Ole Miss, Kansas, and Arizona.

Whatever the EA team used to create these rankings, it didn't work. Hunter and Sanders should be high-end weapons ranked in the 90s, but the rest of this roster will again leave them high and dry when the action begins this fall.