Next year’s Chick-fil-A kickoff game will feature Boise State and Georgia. The two teams agreed terms to play in Atlanta on September 3, 2011. The game will be Boise’s second season-opener that the team will play on the road. Boise faced Virgina Tech earlier this season at Landover, MD’s, FedEx Field. Boise was originally scheduled to travel to Oxford, MS, to play the Ole Miss Rebels, but dropped them from the schedule for Georgia. The two schools rescheduled their meeting for the...
Although the season is still young, a potential game of epic proportion is looming out west. Reno, Nevada, could possibly be the site of college football’s most anticipated game of the year this November 26th when the Boise State Broncos come to town to take on the Nevada Wolf Pack. Tickets will be scarce as national title implications will more than likely be on the line when the two teams meet on the gridiron. College football analysts and followers...
Monday night’s Allstate Kick-Off In The Capital game, featuring No. 3 Boise State and No. 10 Virginia Tech, is one of the most highly anticipated season-opening matchups college football has seen in years. While only in the first week of the season, tonight’s game has national title implications. The meeting, which is also the first ever between these schools, will be televised nationally on ESPN at 8:00pm ET from FedEx Field (home of the Washington Redskins) in Landover, MD. Tonight’s game...
The first part of this Iowa news series received such a warm reception by Hawkeye Nation, hopefully part two promises more of the same. Apparently, Hawkeye football in Iowa is more popular than corn subsidies. Iowans from Sioux City to Waterloo either left comments or shot-off emails, sticking up for their head coach, with some using a few choice words to do so. Nonetheless, I would not expect any different from any true college football fan in coming to the aid and defense of their...
“I had fun with it, but I’m not having withdrawals. I can go without,” said safety Jeron Johnson. Johnson spoke these words to the Idaho Statesman concerning Boise State head coach Chris Petersen’s decision to ban his players from using the social networking website Twitter this season. Boise State opened fall practices last Friday with one goal in mind: win it ALL. While some may question the practice of Petersen’s banning of Twitter, the truth remains that the coach...
After nine years in the Western Athletic Conference, Boise State says farewell. The Broncos have accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West Conference earlier today. The news of Boise’s defection from the WAC comes on a week where rumors of a potential historic college football shake-up have been as rampant as Justin Beiber’s hair. Mountain West officials are beaming from ear to ear to have Boise State sitting at their table as this bodes well for their conference’s...
Boise State football’s Knockout Kings road tour will continue in 2011 in Oxford, MS. Boise State and Ole’ Miss have agreed to terms to bring Boise to Mississippi for a SEC/WAC showdown. The Rebels and Broncos will play on college football’s opening weekend in 2011and Ole Miss will pay BSU $900,000 for their trip down south. Boise State’s athletic department has made it a priority to schedule heavyweights from power conferences like Virginia Tech, Oregon, and Oregon State in...
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) meetings are taking place in Phoenix, Arizona, this week. While all the media talk has been about the potential expansion of the Big Ten and Southeastern conferences, the Mountain West Conference could end up as the biggest winner if the the BCS powers that be have their way. BCS executive director Bill Hancock mentioned during meetings on Wednesday the possibility of Mountain West becoming the seventh conference to receive the coveted BCS automatic berth for the 2012 and...
