Paul Finebaum: Deion Sanders must tune out Dallas Cowboys rumors to reach College Football Playoff

Paul Finebaum firmly believes Deion Sanders and Colorado’s College Football Playoff hopes are “fine” with one caveat though.

remember all of that talk over the last two days about Sanders and the Cowboys? Finebaum does (as he also said so himself).

So Colorado controls its own destiny to the Big 12 Championship Game and can win the next three regular season games, plus the conference title, and get to the CFP. Of course, unless a mysterious blue star comes crashing in.

“I think that they are playing so well right now that they can get to the championship game and possibly beat BYU,” Finebaum said during ‘Fine, Not Fine’ on SportsCenter. “There is one caveat, though, and that’s all this chatter on your network all day long about Deion to the Cowboys. I think that could be the only thing that stops this program, all the noise about Deion.”

Heck, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith called for the Cowboys to tank for Shedeur Sanders and hire Deion as the new head coach, keeping the father-son duo together.

This isn’t the first time the Cowboys and Sanders were mentioned in the sentence. But Coach Prime previously explained why he has no desire to coach the pros compared to the kids in college.

“I’m old school,” Sanders said in January. “I’m not gonna say they’re too soft, but we might collide with the thought process of even getting to the game. My disruption is going to start on Monday when we’re watching that film of the previous game. Then we gotta flush that and then you’re off Tuesday. And so, I’m gonna give you off Tuesday, but does that mean you don’t come in? What does that mean? Because if you wanna be great, most guys come in there.

“Then Wednesday — how you approach this new test, this new challenge. When we display the gameplan to you, are you tentative about that? Like here [at Colorado], every Friday I put up film times of the entire team. Who all watch film? So, if you don’t watch any film on that Friday, you ain’t playing. Because there’s no way you’re prepared, it’s no way you can help us because you aren’t prepared. … So, I’m old school to that aspect that I want unity, I want these guys to want this and on social media, you know we got that like button. I want a love button in this game. I don’t want you to like this, I want you to love this.”