Presented by GREENWOOD’S SKI HAUS. Wednesday, December 16, 2020. It’s been a bit under the radar, but Boise State has its 23rd consecutive winning season, extending the longest streak in the nation. It includes every year this century, of course. The Broncos’ record since 2000 is 224-44. That’s an 84 percent winning percentage. Too often…… MORE
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SCOTT SLANT: Run game issue—rinse and repeat
Presented by BACON. Tuesday, December 15, 2020. With the health of Boise State running back George Holani in question, we have an instant key to Saturday’s Mountain West championship game against San Jose State in Las Vegas. The Broncos must run and stop the run, and it won’t be as easy to stop it as…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: The QB behind the curtain
Presented by BBSI BOISE. Friday, December 11, 2020. Let’s pick up where we left off last week in our game prep discussion. So, what kind of a Jack Sears sighting will there be Saturday at War Memorial Stadium? Sears began practicing last week for the first time since suffering a head injury against BYU. Boise…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: How’s your Doppler?
Presented by PERPETUITY SKIN + SPA. Thursday, December 10, 2020. When this compact Mountain West football season was announced in October, I looked at Laramie weather in mid-December to get a handle on the Boise State-Wyoming game. I found that the average high is 34, and the average low is 9. The high isn’t way…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: It’s feather-ruffling time again
Presented by BBSI BOISE. Wednesday, December 9, 2020. BoiseDev.com and the Idaho Press have uncovered a smoldering fire. Following a Mountain West call in September after the league had voted to postpone the season, Boise State coach Bryan Harsin went off in an email to university president Marlene Tromp and then-athletic director Curt Apsey. BoiseDev…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: Best chance in three weeks
Presented by PERPETUITY SKIN + SPA. Tuesday, December 8, 2020. At this point, any game is a gift. And Boise State expects a present under a spruce tree in Laramie this Saturday. After two straight weeks on the shelf, the Broncos are hoping to get in their season finale at Wyoming. How is Bryan Harsin’s…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: Hoops happens first this week, we hope
Presented by BBSI BOISE. Monday, December 7, 2020. Boise State’s biggest men’s basketball win of the season last year came against BYU, a team that would be ranked No. 18 in the final AP Poll in March. The Broncos outlasted the Cougars 72-68 in overtime behind 26 points and 11 rebounds from Derrick Alston in…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: Home for the Holidays makes sense
Presented by MAZ-TECH AUTOMOTIVE. Friday, December 4, 2020. Pending what Central District Health decrees late this afternoon, here’s one thought on what’s left of the Boise State football season. If the Wyoming game next week is a no-go, and the Mountain West championship game disintegrates, why not just ticket the Broncos for the Famous Idaho…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: Another mood adjustment
Presented by PERPETUITY SKIN + SPA. Thursday, December 3, 2020. It was going to feel almost normal to be talking today about quarterbacks and tight ends and offensive possibilities. Jack Sears and John Bates and the evolving tight ends room. But hanging over our heads was what happened to Boise State last week—and when it…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: A destination for Bronco Nation
Presented by MAZ-TECH AUTOMOTIVE. Wednesday, December 2, 2020. If it weren’t for 2020, this UNLV game would be one blue-and-orange people would flock to. Boise State has poured as many as 15,000 fans into rickety old Sam Boyd Stadium through three games against the Rebels and five Las Vegas Bowls. But now it’s time for…… MORE
