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NCAA rejects new spring football proposal by Colorado, Deion Sanders

February 17, 2026

By Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY: Colorado football coach Deion Sanders has pushed the NCAA for permission to conduct a new style of spring football practice — by competing against another team, particularly against Syracuse under coach Fran Brown.

But the NCAA said no to that idea in 2025 and now has done so again for 2026.

Last year, the NCAA’s Division I FBS oversight committee noted the late timing of the request in March 2025, saying then it wouldn’t be fair to other schools who already started or completed spring practices and didn’t get the same opportunity.

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