Deion Sanders doesn’t deal with rats at Colorado

Deion Sanders has a problem this week and it has nothing to do with 10th-ranked Oregon.

The Colorado Buffaloes coach felt like Colin Sullivan as portrayed by Matt Damon in the 2006 thriller, The Departed, while in his office on Thursday morning. “I can get the rat. You just gotta let me do it my way,” Damon said in the Academy Award-winning film.

Coach Prime shouldn't be worried about a rat, but that's exactly what he was doing. Nobody knows how Charles Edward Cheese found its way into Sanders' office. Did someone drop it off from Lincoln? Fort Collins? Or maybe someone simply left a sandwich out all night?

These are all plausible. And there’s many other possibilities as well. That said, regardless of how or when the rat entered the building, it needs to be eradicated.

“I made eye contact with a mouse, we call it a rat…..I can’t do this, I can’t live like this. I’m in Boulder, Colorado, I cannot live like this. So, help is going to be on the way today. One of us got to go,” said Sanders.

Prime’s reaction is one any of us would have to the problem. His office is a sanctuary of peace and laughter. It’s his kitchen where he devises the best ways to cook his opponents. He doesn’t need Remy Ratatouille getting in the way.

“When I said we coming, I didn’t mean that. Somebody better call somebody. They got me in here scared, and I’m a grown man," Sanders added. This sounds like it's personal.

Sanders and the Buffaloes prepare for a trip to the Pacific Northwest on Saturday. A meeting with Oregon awaits this with a 3:30 p.m. kickoff on ABC.