NCAA committee won't grant wavier for Colorado-Syracuse spring football game despite push from Deion Sanders

The momentum behind a potential spring scrimmage between two Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams this April has come to a screeching halt.

Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders recently pitched joint practices between the Buffaloes and Syracuse leading up to the exhibition game.

"To have it competitive, playing against your own guys kind of gets monotonous," Sanders said during a news conference last week. "You really can’t tell the level of your guys, because it’s the same old, same old — everybody kind of knows each other."

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Syracuse coach Fran Brown eventually accepted the challenge from Sanders, but approval of a waiver from the NCAA's FBS oversight committee...