The biggest college football game is the country is not in Tuscaloosa, according to Steve Spurrier.

The former Florida and South Carolina coach joined “The Paul Finebaum Show” on Wednesday and had nothing but praise for Deion Sanders and his Colorado Buffaloes.

“I was watching it with my wife, Jerri,” Spurrier recounted to Finebaum. “She said, ‘Are you pulling for Colorado?’ I said, ‘You’re dang right I’m pulling for them.’

“I love Coach (Sonny) Dykes and TCU, and they had a heck of a year last year, but this is historical,” Spurrier said of Colorado. “A team that was nowhere and now all of a sudden they are beating one of the best teams in the country.”

Spurrier pointed out the Coach Prime haters need to look past the noise to see there a good football coach leading the Colorado programs.

“You know a lot of media, they say, ‘Well he’s real loud’ and whatever, but he’s a ball coach, too. He’s got his guys prepared, and he’s got a good coaching staff.

“His son, Shedeur, he is a good player. He throws a catchable ball. That’s how he throws for 510 yards, setting all kinds of records in his first game.”

Spurrier, the former Heisman Trophy winner at Florida, is so high on Colorado, he insists the showdown Saturday with Nebraska is the best game of the week.

“I know a lot of people think Alabama and Texas is big, but, to me, I think Colorado and Nebraska is the biggest game in the nation this week,” he declared.

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.