BOULDER, Colo. — The fight songs that play after touchdowns at Colorado football games are now in the national spotlight.
CU Athletics issued a statement calling a Barstool Sports report "completely false" that head football coach Deion Sanders told the Colorado marching band it can't play the school's fight song after his son, Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders, throws a touchdown pass. The Barstool report said the stadium will instead play one of Shedeur's rap songs.
"The report that Coach Prime instructed the CU band to refrain from playing the fight song is completely false," the CU Athletic Department said. "The fight songs 'Glory, Glory, Colorado' and 'Fight CU' have been played after CU touchdowns and field goals for years and were played every time the Buffaloes scored against North Dakota State earlier this season. It’s common throughout college football for individual players to have small snippets of songs played during games."
Traditionally, one of the university's fight songs, "Glory, Glory, Colorado," plays immediately after touchdowns, followed by another, "Fight CU," after the team's extra point attempt.
During Colorado's home opener vs. North Dakota State, as seen in video highlights from the game, a snippet of Shedeur Sanders' song "Perfect Timing" played after his touchdown passes, followed by the band's "Glory, Glory, Colorado" and "Fight CU."
Deion Sanders responded to the report about Colorado's fight song during a news conference Tuesday, challenging the media to do better.
"Whoever reported that I told the band not to play the fight song, that's idiotic, ya'll know that," Sanders said. "When you saw that, you knew that was a lie. We've got to start having some kind of a accountability to this. I understand this is a free and open world, that not everybody is a journalist, everybody's not an analyst."
"I'm thankful for many of ya'll that take your job and your craft serious," Sanders told reporters. "And consequently you get facts before you run with false narratives. Please know that that stuff affects people. Me. You've been attacking me my whole life, so I'm good.
"But other people that's involved, band members, Buff faithful and alumni. Sometimes they don't know what to believe," Sanders said. "Oftentimes in life, we believe the first thing we hear, in which we shouldn't. I would just challenge you to be more responsible with your reporting."
"What happened to Accountability for lies told and consequently sold," Deion Sanders posted on X on Monday. "A lie don’t care who tells it & only a fool can fool a fool but the Wise is Prudent."
Colorado football alum and Fox Sports commentator Joel Klatt also refuted the initial Barstool Sports report.
"This is false...that is all," Klatt posted on X.
CU Buffs 2024 football schedule
- Thursday, Aug. 29 - CU defeats North Dakota State 31-26 - ESPN
- Saturday, Sept. 7 - Nebraska defeats CU 28-10 - NBC
- Saturday, Sept. 14 at 5:30 p.m. at Colorado State - CBS
- Saturday, Sept. 21 at 6 p.m. - vs. Baylor - FOX
- Saturday, Sept. 28 - at UCF
- Saturday, Oct. 12 - vs. Kansas State
- Saturday, Oct. 19 - at Arizona
- Saturday, Oct. 26 - vs. Cincinnati
- Saturday, Nov. 9 - at Texas Tech
- Saturday, Nov. 16 - vs. Utah
- Saturday, Nov. 23 - at Kansas
- Friday, Nov. 29 at 10 a.m. - vs. Oklahoma State - ABC
CU Athletics announced Monday its homecoming game against Baylor on Saturday, Sept. 21, will kick off at 6 p.m. and be televised nationally on FOX.
The Colorado Buffaloes and head coach Deion Sanders will appear on all four networks in the same season for the first time in school history. Games this season are now scheduled to air on FOX, CBS, ABC and NBC.
The Baylor game will be the first Big 12 Conference game for the Buffaloes in 13 years. Tickets for the game at Folsom Field sold out in August.
