BOULDER, Colo. — Deion Sanders wasn’t stunned when he heard what Keyshawn Johnson said on Monday’s episode of Fox’s “Undisputed.” The former NFL wide receiver indicated that assistant coaches from other programs fed information to Oregon about Colorado’s schemes before last Saturday’s game.

“That’s ordinary,” Sanders said in his Tuesday news conference on campus. “That happens every week. That’s not the Oregon game. That’s life. I want our coaches to understand that we’re not just playing against a team, we’re playing against all of college football. It ain’t too many people lined up to see us dominate and see us win.”

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The Ducks routed Sanders’ Buffaloes 42-6 in Eugene to hand Colorado its first loss of the season.

“I spoke to somebody in the coaching fraternity right after the game, and they know some people that coach at Oregon,” Johnson said Monday. “And they were telling me, they said, ‘Man, I’ve never heard from another assistant coach of how much information was being given to that staff,’ about, I’m being real with you, about game planning against Colorado. So they could beat them.”

Sanders shrugged off the sports-talk show fodder because he didn’t find it damning.

“We call (around) for information as well,” Sanders said.

The Buffaloes, now 3-1, host No. 8 USC (4-0) on Saturday morning at Folsom Field. Sanders praised USC coach Lincoln Riley and reigning Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams. As it typically tends to do, the conversation in the news conference drifted toward Sanders and his team versus the college football establishment.

“When I came out the womb, I was booed,” he said. “I don’t have a message to detractors or haters. I don’t take my time to respond or defend myself. Why would I do that? I’m giving you a microphone if I’m doing that. I’m giving you solace that you’re in my life. I don’t care. I really don’t. If it’s been that way all my life you would think I’m used to it. I’m not new to this, I’m true to this. And I keep going. I’m good with that, man. This is a comfortable place for me.”

Despite being thumped by the Ducks last weekend, Sanders maintained that the program is “still on a high and “not on a seesaw.”

And he had a biblical message ahead of the showdown against the preseason Pac-12 favorites.

“You’ve got to understand: David’s got to have a Goliath,” he said. “If David don’t have a Goliath, he don’t get to use his stones.”

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