Colorado football coach Deion Sanders has hit new lows on the field in recent weeks with back-to-back blowout losses, including his worst loss as a college head coach and another change in direction at quarterback. Now comes news of another new depth — his lowest recorded television audience in three seasons in charge of the Buffaloes.
His team’s 52-17 loss against Arizona on Nov. 1 drew an average of just 374,000 on FS1, Fox Sports confirmed to USA TODAY Sports. That is by far the smallest recorded audience under Sanders at Colorado, even lower than his previous low two years ago, a 56-14 loss at Washington State, which drew an average of 727,000 on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023.
One big reason for it was the Arizona-Colorado game competed against Game 7 of the baseball World Series on Fox on the same night. If the Toronto Blue Jays had won Game 6 against the Los Angeles Dodgers the night before on Oct. 31, Colorado would have played on the main Fox channel instead on Nov. 1 and got a much bigger audience.
But it still tracks with a downward trend this year for Sanders.
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