The charismatic former N.F.L. star known as “Prime Time” turned around the program at Jackson State over three seasons and would be expected to do the same for the Buffaloes.
Deion Sanders, the swashbuckling former N.F.L. star who in his first stint as a college coach shaped Jackson State into a head-turning team, will take over the football program at Colorado, the university announced Saturday.
In three seasons at Jackson State, a historically Black university in Mississippi, Sanders lost only five games, upending a program that had been mired in mediocrity — or worse — for years.