On November 8th, with the time still to be determined, Morgantown, West Virginia, will be the sight of a college football spectacle when Deion Sanders and his Colorado Buffaloes come to town for a matchup with the Mountaineers. WVU fans will likely wish this game were a "primetime" matchup, indeed.
It isn't every day, or ever, for that matter, that you get an opposing head coach who is an NFL Hall of Famer and the only person to have ever played in both a Super Bowl and a World Series. And the Colorado Buffaloes aren't to be taken lightly, regardless of who is at the helm, having attracted many great players over the years and finishing in the top-tier of the Big 12 just this past season under Sanders. The two teams have met twice, with WVU winning the last matchup in Morgantown by a score of 35-24 in 2009.
Deion Sanders once said, "I'm married to football, and baseball is my girlfriend!" But this coming November, with Rich Rodriguez leading the charge for WVU and returning the intensity to what it once was in Morgantown, WVU may have some divorce papers in hand for Sanders. Rodriguez will likely have his team ready to send Primetime and his headline-seeking program out of town with a loss and possibly another coaching gig depending, on where his offspring ends up in the NFL.
The Mountaineer faithful will undoubtedly be glad to see Sanders in the flesh, but leave no doubt about It; they will have high hopes of spoiling Deion's first-ever trip into the chaotic environment known as Morgantown, W.Va, on game day.