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The Colorado Buffaloese head coach, Deion Sanders, revealed his daring idea for the university football playoffs (CFP) that no one has mentioned, and that does not imply the format.
It’s about paying the players.
“Coach Prime” suggested paying the players for creating the CFP and, moreover, paying them more if they advance.
“Now, it’s equality, now it’s even, and each player wins the same amount,” said Sanders in an interview with the association Press.
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Head coach Deion Sanders of the University of Colorado talks about his journey against bladder cancer at a press conference at the Touchdown Club at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado, Monday, July 28, 2025. (Aaron Oniveroz / The Denver Post)
This interview also involved the legend of training in university football Nick Saban as part of its new Aflac advertisement. Saban was extremely vocal about the fact that university sports on the right track in this new name, the image and the resemblance (null) fed.
While a university sports commissioner was floated, Saban said he didn’t want this.
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“I don’t want to be in this briar patch of being a commissioner, but I want to do everything I can do things,” he noted.
However, the two coaches believe that more structure is necessary, because schools have the capacity to make millionaires of players due to our transactions and schools to pay up to $ 20.5 million each to their athletes over the next year.
Sanders referred to zero offers like a joke, saying that “there are only three or four guys you could know their Nile, and the rest you just give money”.
Colorado Buffaloese head coach, Deion Sanders, looks at the heating before the match against the Cornhuskers of Nebraska at the Memorial Stadium. (Dylan Widger / Imagn images)
Saban is also concerned about what’s going on after these players leave university.
“For years and years and years as trainers, and when we were players, we have learned this: we are trying to create value for our future,” said Saban. “This is why we are going to university. It is not only to see how much money we can earn while we are at university. This is how it has an impact on your future with regard to our ability to create value for ourselves.”
In Sanders, paying the players for having made the playoff series of university football, conferences whose schools make the CFP at 12 teams receive $ 4 million. These payments are increasing with each victory, but Sanders wants wealth to spread to these players who help get there instead of conferences.
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This is what the NFL does with its bonuses in eliminatory series. For example, super bowl winners received $ 171,000 each last year, regardless of the role they played to happen.
And for conferences which believe that a guaranteed offer at the CFP should be made available, such as dry and big ten, Saban does not have it.
“The NFC East has cowboys, eagles and giants. They have the biggest fans bases of anyone, and they have to play their way,” he reminded football fans. “Everyone should play their way.”
Colorado Buffaloes’ head coach Deion Sanders of Colorado speaks with the media during the Big 12 Media Days at the Ford Center of the Star on July 9, 2025, in Frisco, Texas. (Images Stacy Revere / Getty)
The world of university sports, especially with regard to the construction of a university football program, has been on and the coaches continue to sail in these waters each season.
Until an appropriate structure is in place, any idea can be floated, such as Sanders’ proposal,, As we head for another football season.
