Colorado entered the College Football Playoff conversation Saturday in force.
The Buffaloes, winners of three consecutive games and 7-2 on the season, after rallying for an 41-27 win at Texas Tech.
But that's not the only topic of conversation.
In his postgame press conference, Deion Sanders said an unspecified member of the Big 12 Conference's officiating crew remarked something to Coach Prime "that he probably shouldn't have said."
He shared the anecdote as he answered a question that pertained to Texas Tech's need to pause the game and see its coach, Joey McGuire, urge fans to halt throwing objects onto the field.
"Joey grabbed the microphone and he told me, 'Man, I apologize,'" Sanders said, "and I told him I had to do the same thing last week. He handled it like a professional."
Was that sequence what prompted Prime to speak with the referees?
"That was something else," he said. "One of the officials said something that he probably shouldn't have said."
Asked if the inappropriate comment was made directly to Coach Prime, he answered yes.
"The official said something to you?," a reporter questioned.
"Yeah, yeah," Sanders remarked.
McGuire already had blasted the officials's performance in his postgame scene, lambasting the crew for missing at least five facemask penalties and openly questioning how the officials had whistled a controversial targeting call against the Red Raiders defense for a hit on Colorado star quarterback Shedeur Sanders.
If Colorado wins out, it will play for the Big 12 Conference championship and the corresponding automatic berth in the expanded, 12-team College Football Playoff.
Deion Sanders praised his team's fortitude.
"We thrive on that, we thrive on that. We've always been in adverse situations," he said. "Everywhere we travel is an adverse situation, everywhere we go. Some of the typing and things in the paper put us in an adverse situation. There's not one time that I'm not getting a reminder on my phone that someone's talking about us and putting us in adversity.
"These young men are prepared for this."
The Buffaloes have home games remaining against Utah and Oklahoma State sandwiched around a trip to Kansas City to face Kansas.