Ahead of Colorado’s Dec. 28 Alamo Bowl showdown with BYU, Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders made another audacious claim. Describing what the coach hailed as a “tremendous announcement,” Sanders and athletic director Rick George said the university had just secured a record-breaking amount of disability insurance for its two stars, Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders, the coach’s son.
“It was [Sanders’s] idea that we should get disability insurance for our student-athletes for this game to ensure that, if something happened, they’d be well taken care of,” George explained during a pre-bowl press conference. “We think it’s great that all of our players are playing in the game, and that’s how all bowl games should be.