Travis Hunter calls out Colorado State after pregame scuffle: 'All talk, no bite'

Colorado hasn’t run from a challenge, a call out or even a little bit of a scrap, such as the one the Buffaloes got into with some Colorado State players on Saturday evening. The 2023 edition of the Rocky Mountain Showdown has had an unprecedented level of attention and hype.

With Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders and Rams head coach Jay Norvell trading barbs in recent days, things hit a fever pitch. It boiled over pregame, and Hunter was right in the middle of it, and it seemed to fire him up.

“They done messed with the wrong team. All talk, no bite,” Hunter said in a video posted by SportsCenter on social media.

"They done messed with the wrong team. All talk, no bite." 🗣️

Travis Hunter with a message before facing Colorado State. pic.twitter.com/jMyU9y7uCR

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 17, 2023

Hunter is a two-way star for Colorado, playing wide receiver and cornerback. It’s a safe bet that if he makes his usual share of plays on Saturday night in Boulder, the smack talk will continue.

Sanders said Norvell crossed the line

It was all fun and games between Colorado State and Colorado this week… until Rams coach Jay Norvell brought Deion Sanders’ mother into the trash talking.

At his coach’s show this week, Norvell threw shade at Sanders and Colorado, particularly over how Coach Prime dons sunglasses and a cowboy hat for his television interviews.

“I sat down with ESPN today, and I don’t care if they hear it in Boulder,” said Norvell this past Wednesday. “I told them, ‘I took my hat off, and I took my glasses off.’ And I said, ‘When I talk to grown-ups, I take my hat and my glasses off.’ That’s what my mother taught me.’”

Well, now that mothers were brought into the equation, Deion Sanders sure did have some thoughts on the Colorado State coach’s comments.

“We started off the week. We’re exchanging, being pleasant, like coaches do. Even though sometimes they don’t mean it, they do it anyway,” explained Sanders, noting that Norvell did not keep up the public friendliness.

“And he just took a left, he took a left. And the thing about us, you know, you can’t talk about momma now. You insinuate something about momma, that momma ain’t raised me right. Momma may be in the pregame speech today. That’s how personal it got.”

Sanders then suggested that his own mother was fired up by the comments and ready to defend herself and her son.

“Because when I got home, momma said ‘baby, are you serious?’ I said ‘how you feel about that, momma?’ Yeah, momma had one foot back. You know, when you get ready to throw ’em, you put one foot back. Momma’s ready.’”