Last year, the Colorado Buffaloes were the most hyped team in college football history. This year, the Buffaloes are the most hyped team ever

Last year , the Colorado Buffaloes were the most hyped bad team in history.

The program was arguably the biggest TV attraction in the sport.

The only problem was that it turned out Colorado sucked.

This year 's team is now favored to win the Big 12 in its first year after migrating back from Pac-12.

This version of Colorado may be the most intensely documented program ever.

The decline in Colorado intrigue also does not stem from Sanders or his team’s biggest stars dialing back their public personas.

The Buffaloes are a college football story, sure, but Sanders made them into a celebrity story.

Maybe it is because talking about Colorado last year was uniquely exhausting.

The culture didn't move on from Colorado as much as it was just stopping over.

Now the Buffaloes are less a team coached by a celebrity than a program demonstrating real upward mobility in a sport that makes rapid improvement difficult.