Steve Spurrier: Colorado vs. Nebraska is a bigger game than Alabama vs. Texas in Week 2

Week 2 of the college football season will feature an impressive slate of games, headlined by Texas vs. Alabama in a rematch of last year’s thriller. The game will get the primetime treatment on ESPN and The Pat McAfee Show will also be in attendance for a “Field Pass” broadcast.

According to legendary Florida coach Steve Spurrier, though, another game could steal the spotlight — and, appropriately, it features “Prime Time.”

“I know a lot of people think Alabama and Texas is big,” Spurrier said on The Paul Finebaum Show Wednesday. “But to me, I think Colorado and Nebraska is the biggest game in the nation this week.”

However, he made sure to log his prediction for the Alabama-Texas showdown.

“I do think Alabama is gonna beat Texas. Let me throw that in there,” Spurrier said. “I think they’ll beat Texas [by] one or two touchdowns, at least.”

Steve Spurrier: Underneath Deion Sanders’ unique style, ‘he’s a Ball Coach, too’

Colorado and Deion Sanders became the story of college football with the Week 1 victory over TCU in Fort Worth. Shedeur Sanders set multiple records as he threw for 510 yards and four touchdowns, while Travis Hunter also impressed with 118 receiving yards on offense and a highlight-reel interception on defense.

Spurrier sounded more than impressed with “Coach Prime” and the Buffaloes as he praised the job Sanders has done turning the Colorado program around.

“A lot of the media or whatever will say, ‘Well, he’s real loud and this, that and the other.’ But he’s a Ball Coach, too,” Spurrier said of Deion Sanders. “And he’s got his guys prepared and he’s got a good coaching staff, Paul. I don’t know the name of his offensive coordinator, but they know what they’re doing. And his son, Shedeur, I mean, he is a good player. Gosh, he throws a catchable ball. That’s how he throws for 510 yards, set all kind of records in his first game ever in [FBS].

“But what was sort of fascinating also is, I think Rick Neuheisel said it. He said, who’d ever thunk the second week of the season, Boulder, Colorado is going to be the center of college football when they play in Nebraska?”

Saturday’s game between Nebraska and Colorado is the renewal of a storied rivalry between the two teams. Sanders is embracing it, too, calling it “personal” as he prepares for his first time coaching in the game. It will also mark Matt Rhule’s first time taking part in the affair, meaning it’s truly a new chapter for both programs.

Colorado and Nebraska will kick off Saturday at noon ET.