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'Prime' Colorado vs. Northwestern spectacle should have been at new Ryan Field

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Out in Boulder, Colorado, this week, a world-famous football coach sat under a black ball cap, the gray hood of his “I AIN’T HARD 2 FIND” sweatshirt pulled over the top, dark shades hiding his eyes, a Coke-can-size gold cross hanging from the thick gold chain snaking around his neck, and paid compliments to one of his least-talked-about peers in the Power Four ranks. “I really respect and admire him,” Colorado’s Deion Sanders, Pro Football Hall of Famer, said about Northwestern ’s David Braun. Let’s just get this out of the way: Colorado (+3½) at Northwestern (6:30 p.m., Fox 32, 720-AM) would have been a great way to open the new Ryan Field, an $875 million stadium project that fell behind schedule enough that the first game won’t come until Penn State visits Oct. 2. Not that the Penn State game won’t be a huge deal; it will. But having “Prime Time” Sanders on hand to hype the new place would’ve been oh, so perfect. Instead, it will be Northwestern’s final game at Martin Stadium on the