Colorado’s recent slump on the field didn’t do much to shake up the recruiting board, and Deion Sanders says the 2027 class is still holding strong.
The Buffaloes dropped five straight games this fall, and the noise around Sanders’ future kept growing as the losses piled up. That kind of uncertainty usually opens the door for decommitments.
Colorado has mostly avoided that. The 2027 class has lost just one commitment, and after its first decommitment of the cycle on Oct. 27, it still sat at 20 pledges before the Kansas State win ended the skid four days later.
With the early signing period about a month away, Sanders was asked Tuesday how committed those recruits really are. His answer centered on the behind-the-scenes work.
“I talked to our recruits every week. We had a couple of few this weekend,” Sanders said during his weekly press conference. Later in the same answer, he added, “We talked to some before the games.”
For Sanders, that was enough. He didn’t need to turn it into a long pitch. The numbers already tell part of the story.
Colorado’s 2026 class finished No. 67 nationally and 15th out of 16 Big 12 teams in the Rivals rankings. By July, Rivals had the 2027 group at No. 37 nationally and No. 3 in the conference, a 30-spot jump in one cycle. That puts the class back near the level of the 2025 group, which Rivals ranked No. 35 nationally and second in the Big 12.
The class is headlined by four-star quarterback Andre Adams of Antioch, Tennessee, who announced his commitment at his high school in April. 247Sports ranked him No. 188 nationally this summer, the top rating of any Colorado commit at the time.
Colorado also attacked one of its clearest roster needs with numbers up front. At least five offensive linemen are already committed, including four-star offensive lineman Dewey Young, whose July pledge added another highly rated piece to the group.
The geographic spread is just as notable. As of July, the class included recruits from 11 states, with Florida leading the way, and none from Colorado. Sanders has leaned into the Southeast hard, and the approach has continued to resonate with prospects far from Boulder.
The recruits who visited over the weekend got a front-row look at a better scene. They were in the stands for Colorado’s first win at Folsom Field since mid-September, and they left with the Buffaloes carrying some momentum into November.
Still, November commitments are only part of the equation. Nothing becomes official until the December early signing period, and the next month is when other programs usually make their push to flip recruits.
Sanders didn’t sound concerned about that part of it. He kept coming back to the same assessment.
“They’re good. They’re really, really, really good,” Sanders said.
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