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ESPN's Paul Finebaum compares Deion Sanders rise to Tiger Woods breakthrough in Golf

Coach Prime finally hearing positivity from Bristol
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ESPN's Paul Finebaum compares Deion Sanders rise to Tiger Woods breakthrough in Golf
ESPN's Paul Finebaum compares Deion Sanders rise to Tiger Woods breakthrough in Golf

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ESPN might have to actually be honest about Deion Sanders after all. The "Worldwide leader in Sports" has changing their tone following Colorado's upset win over 17th-ranked TCU this weekend. 

It started with Dan Orlovsky saying Coach Prime was more than a personality and was "perfect for college football right now" on Tuesday's episode of Get Up.

The positive comments continued with Paul Finebaum going off the deep end to appreciate the job done by Sanders saying, "He's the biggest name in college football today"

The highly-controversial ESPN radio figure also compared Coach Prime's breakthrough in Power Five coaching to how Tiger Woods took the PGA by storm in the early 2000's. Finebaum said people will tune into games just to watch Sanders.

This was a flip from the narrative being pushed out over the past few weeks. Two ESPN writers took their own stance against Colorado and Coach Prime. Tom Luginbill said Colorado had the worst roster in FBS, along with Mark Schlabach stepping in to say TCU would hang half-a-hundred on CU. I guess the tone has changed with the big win.

Sanders and the 22nd-ranked Buffaloes welcome Nebraska into Boulder for a renewal of the former Big Eight rivalry. It's the home opener for CU as 2.5-point favorites over the Huskers.  

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Josh Tolle
JOSH TOLLE

Josh Tolle is a writer covering college sports for On SI. Outside of storytelling, the multi-talented broadcaster has play-by-play experience at the professional and collegiate levels. In 2018, he began calling games for the National Women’s Soccer League. He has also called games for the United Soccer League, Concacaf, and the U.S. Open Cup. He has called hockey for the Premier Hockey Federation for the past three seasons and was the play-by-play voice for the Superior RoughRiders of the Western Hockey League. He has provided play-by-play for various other sports including football, basketball, baseball and volleyball events. Since 2015, Tolle has been the voice of Colorado School of Mines Athletics having called football, men's and women's basketball and soccer. He previously wrote for SB Nation.

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