With four regular season games still remaining, Colorado cracked the critical mark of six wins on Saturday night, giving the Buffs bowl eligibility for the first time in a non-COVID campaign since 2016.

Following Saturday's 34-24 victory over Cincinnati, head coach Deion Sanders and multiple players admitted that while they're proud of the achievement, the Buffs have bigger goals left to achieve. Colorado now stands 4-1 in Big 12 play and has cemented itself as a legitimate threat to reach the conference title game.

Check out what Coach Prime, quarterback Shedeur Sanders, placekicker Alejandro Mata and others had to say about Colorado becoming bowl-eligible:

Coach Prime reaches out to 99-year-old superfan Peggy Coppom

"We wanted to give her love and appreciation and present her with the game ball, so we called her," Coach Prime said. "(Athletic director Rick George) was gracious enough to call her, and she answered on the first ring in Peggy fashion, with plenty of energy and that oomph that she has, and we told her that she is going to a bowl."

More on getting Peggy to a bowl game

"Now, we want to make sure she goes to the best possible bowl that she could possibly go to, and that means a lot to us, that really does," Coach Prime said. "She was so appreciative and thankful, but she means so much to this program, so we're glad that we could honor her in that realm. Now, we just got to get a private plane to make sure she's comfortable on the way there."

Aiming for more

"That's (bowl eligibility) not all we're after," Coach Prime said. "That's one of the hurdles that we're jumping over, that we're going over. That's a tremendous hurdle, that we're happy, we're excited, but that's not the end goal for us. That's the beginning, but we are thankful and appreciative that the hard work is going noticed.”

College Football Playoff hopes?

"We ain't think about the playoffs right now," Coach Prime said. "We go one game at a time. We don't even want to be ranked. Don't rank us, please. We don't like that. We rather be in the back, in the dark, just chilling in the cut. We good, we cool. We straight. All right, so don't feel pressure to rank us."

Shedeur Sanders gives his thoughts

"It’s big for us because it’s big for the fans," Shedeur said. "Us, we look at every game that we play as a possible win. We don't go into the season or look at the schedule like, 'Oh we're only gonna win six games.' That's not what happened, so the fact that we did it, it just trusts the process that we're using."

Shedeur also striving for more

"We're not even hitting our peak, nowhere close," Shedeur said. "We still got a lot of things we got to clean up. We still have a lot of things offensively we have to excel more at. It's just a great thing. It's just a great badge of honor for now. But we got bigger aspirations.”

RB Isaiah Augustave looking for the Big 12 title

“It’s good to be bowl-eligible, but we’re coming for the Big 12 championship," Augustave said.

Kicker Alejandro Mata shares his pride

“It definitely fills us with pride," Mata said. "After a season like last year, being able to bounce back with the coaching staff and the players, and feels great, and just full of pride.”

OL Justin Mayers opens up

"I'm so proud of this team," Mayers said. "A lot of people don't know how much work we put in, and all the adversity a lot of us go through as a player or as a unit as a whole. Being here as a transfer, I'm very thankful I chose CU.”

OL Kahlil Benson

"(The) adversity we went through, we bonded together as a team, came together and did what we had to do on the field and then off the field as well," Benson said. "Whether that's bonding out, going out together, doing whatever we have to do to make sure that we solidify everything that we got to do, especially like protecting the QB."

This article originally appeared on Buffaloes Wire: Deion Sanders, Colorado players react to becoming bowl-eligible