This weekend won't be the first time in Canvas Stadium for Shilo and Shedeur Sanders.

The Colorado football players will be in Fort Collins as members of the visiting team Saturday for the Rocky Mountain Showdown, but they once got the full tour of Colorado State's stadium.

Shilo was brought in on an official recruiting visit by former CSU coach Mike Bobo in 2018. He brought little brother Shedeur along.

It earned multiple social media posts from Deion Sanders, who at the time was the coach of their high school (Trinity Christian) in Texas and is now approaching his second Rocky Mountain Showdown as Colorado's head coach. A tweet showed Bobo sitting with both Sanders kids on a couch and said "awesome coaching staff and the facilities are unbelievable."

Deion Sanders posted a picture on Instagram of Shilo and Shedeur in CSU uniforms and Bobo doing his own fashion show as he put on Shedeur's more fashionable clothes. The post garnered nearly 30,000 likes on Instagram.

"He (Bobo) recruited my son. I know they (Shilo and Shedeur) had a good time. They really did," Deion Sanders told media in Boulder ahead of the 2023 Rocky Mountain Showdown. "They enjoyed the trip tremendously, but I think they enjoy it here much better."

Shilo was a high school senior at the time and Shedeur a sophomore. Shilo's only two official visits were CSU and South Carolina, but he chose the Gamecocks.

Bobo was let go as CSU's coach in December 2019. Deion Sanders was hired as the Jackson State coach in September 2020, after which Shilo and Shedeur both joined Jackson State. Sanders was hired at the University of Colorado in December 2022 and both sons transferred to Boulder.

CU and CSU met in a hotly contested, double-overtime game last year (won by the Buffs). CSU hosts the Showdown at 5:30 p.m. Saturday (CBS). Shilo may miss the game due to injury, but Shedeur will be looking for a bounce-back performance after CU's loss in Nebraska.

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