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Boise State College Football Preview

The Boise State Broncos have always been on the cusp of playing for a National Championship. This year could be the year when they actually play for the title.
 
Over the last five years of the incredible run the program is on, the Broncos have gone 61-5 with the last three losses by a grand total of seven points. Of those 61 wins, six of them were against BCS conference teams – with one loss to Washington – and 52 of the victories were by double digits. Again, a lot of the wins might be on 85 mile-per-hour fastballs, but Boise is putting them into the upper deck.

Even so, even though the team did everything it was asked to do, including beating Virginia Tech on the road, blowing away Oregon State, and obliterating everything in its path, there was sheer hatred when it came to the idea of a BCS Championship appearance. It took a late November road game against a very good, very experienced Nevada team, along with a few missed field goals, for the dream to die, and America breathed a collective sigh of relief.

And Boise State went back to being Boise State.

How did the Broncos respond to the soul-crushing defeat? They squeaked by Utah State 50-14 and eventually pounded Utah into a 26-3 Maaco Bowl pulp. This program is a machine on both sides of the ball finishing second in the nation in total offense, scoring offense, total defense, scoring defense, passing efficiency, tackles for loss, and pass efficiency defense, while leading the country in sacks, but it just can’t get any national respect whatsoever outside of Kirk Herbstreit.

America, it’s time to ditch your preconceived notions of what a successful college football program should be. Just because Boise State is tucked away in Idaho, and just because it doesn’t get the four and five-star super-recruits like Alabama, Texas, or Ohio State, that doesn’t mean the brand of football is any less successful. Wisconsin, Iowa, and TCU get praised up and down for finding guys who are the right fit, and Boise State, after eight ten-win seasons in the last nine and ten in the last 12 deserves at least a little benefit of the doubt.

This could be the year where fans and players will have to give them the respect they deserve.