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The chief coach of Buffaloes de Colorado, Deion Sanders, revealed his bold idea for the American football playoff (CFP) that no one has mentioned, and does not imply the format.
It’s about paying players.
“Coach Prime” suggested to pay the players to do the CFP and, in addition, pay them more if they advance.
“Now, it’s equality, it’s now uniform, and each player is earning the same amount of money,” Sanders said in an interview with the associate Press.
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The chief coach Deion Sanders, from the University of Colorado, talks about his trip that hits bladder cancer during a press conference at the TouchDown club in Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, July 28, 2025. (Aaron Ontivez/The Denver Post)
That interview also involved the legend of the university football coach Nick Saban as part of his new Aflac commercial. Saban has been extremely vocal about putting university sports on the right path in this new name, image and likeness (NIL).
While a university sports commissioner was floating, Saban said he doesn’t want part of that.
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“I don’t want to be in that Brez patch of being commissioned, but I do want to do everything possible to do it well,” he said.
However, both coaches feel that more structure is needed, since schools have the ability to make millionaire players because null offers and schools can pay up to $ 20.5 million each to their athletes during the next year.
Sanders referred to Nil offers as a joke, saying that “there are only three or four types to which you can know its zero, and the rest is only giving money.”
The chief coach of Buffaloes de Colorado, Deion Sanders, observes heating before the match against the Nebraska cornhuskers in the Stadium Memorial. (Dylan Widger/Imagn images)
Saban also cares about what happens after these players leave the university.
“For years and years as coaches, and when we were players, we learned this: we are trying to create value for our future,” Saban explained. “That is why we are going to university. It’s not just seeing how much money we can earn while we are in university. It’s how that affects your future in terms of our ability to create value for ourselves.”
To the point of Sanders on paying the players to reach the American football playoffs, the conferences whose schools make the CFP of 12 teams receive $ 4 million. These payments increase with each victory, but Sanders wants wealth to extend to those players who help that happen instead of just the conferences.
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That is what the NFL does with its playoff bonds. For example, Super Bowl winners received $ 171,000 every last year, no matter what role they played to make that happen.
And for those conferences that believe that a guaranteed offer for the CFP must be available, such as the SEC and Big Ten, Saban does not have it.
“The NFC EAST has the cowboys, Eagles and Giants. They have the biggest bases of admirers of anyone, and have to play,” he reminded football fans. “Everyone should enter their way.”
The chief coach Deion Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes speaks with the media during the Big 12 Media Days at the Ford Center in The Star on July 9, 2025 in Frisco, Texas. (Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
The world of university sports, especially when it comes to building a university football program, has become the head, and coaches continue to sail through those waters every season.
Until it is in place, any idea can be floated, such as Sanders’ proposal, While we head to another football season.
