Soon, one of the most ubiquitous elements of college football will return: those (at least, initially) entertaining Aflac commercials featuring Nick Saban and Deion Sanders.
Plus, a random smattering of animals ranging from the company's duck mascot to the occasional goat or buffalo.
Though Saban, the former king of college football at Alabama, retired earlier this year, Sanders, now entering his second season atop the Colorado program, revealed that the Aflac commercials are set to continue.
More compelling, however, was that Sanders shared the ongoing impact of his friendship/mentorship with Saban, as well as Saban's wife and the former first lady of Alabama football, Mrs. Terry.
"I can wait to shoot the next ones. I just saw the storylines," Sanders told Joel Klatt on his Big Noon Conversations. "Mrs. Saban needs to teach a masterclass for all the women who are alongside the [coaches]. She's unbelievable.
"Just getting your butt kicked, and you go back and look at your phone and you got a message from Mrs. Terry? It's unbelievable."
While he passionately proclaimed Saban the sport's all-time coaching great, Sanders also said that he continues to lean on Saban, among other coaches and mentors, as he seeks to grow in his role overseeing the Buffaloes. Sanders also said Saban's retirement, while understandable, was a significant loss for college football.
"First of all, let's just get this straight: He's the Magna Cum Laude. He is it," Sanders said of Saban. "We attain to just get next to it; we can never eclipse it. He kept it 100. I just hate it for him, because I felt he had so much more left. But I understand when it's not in him to do it that way and you want to do it this way.
"It was like, 'Dern, we lost the O.G.' He means so much to me personally as a man. Just watching him from near and far. I hate that we lost him for college football's sake."
Though not specifically from his discussions with Saban, Sanders revealed among his personal growth-goals in Year 2 is to do a better job of staying true to himself.
"I want to be much more consistent," Sanders told Klatt. "I've got to act on what I feel and I've got to act on what I know. It's like you see some things and feel some things, and I'm a nice guy, so I give it a chance to materialize and come to pass, then I call my support guys around the country, Coach Saban and some other guys I won't mention by name, and they give me so much love and advice.
"I've got to act on it. If I would've acted on it, things might have been a lot different. But I didn't."
Colorado opens its second season under Sanders against storied FCS powerhouse North Dakota State, under first-year head coach Tim Polasek, Aug. 29 before resuming its long-running rivalry with border-state foe Nebraska, which was blown out last year by the Buffaloes in Sanders's first-ever home game as head coach.