The Colorado football program has made promising strides through the first part of the 2024 season. Colorado has beaten stout competition, including the stateside Colorado State football squad. CSU has been caught amid NIL rumors amid a resurfacing of news, and Deion Sanders gave a fresh take on the matter. In 2023, news surfaced that Colorado State football QB Brayden Folwer-Nicolosi was allegedly offered as much as $600,000 in NIL money from other schools to leave the program.