(TOM SCOTT’S COLUMN WILL RETURN THURSDAY.) Presented by BACON. Monday, July 24, 2017. The Mountain West Media Summit begins tomorrow in Las Vegas (the word “summit” makes us feel really important). This is where the Boise State program first reaches the crossroads that characterize the 2017 season. The release of the conference preseason poll tomorrow…… MORE
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If I had told you 20 years ago…
Presented by WESTERN SIDING. Friday, July 21, 2017. It’s a tricky thing trying to predict the future. That’s why Las Vegas exists, right? Yesterday afternoon’s breaking news only magnified that. Here we are exactly two decades ago, with Houston Nutt, a high-energy Southerner, coming in from Murray State to take over the Boise State football…… MORE
From captaining rafts to captaining the D
Presented by BACON. Thursday, July 20, 2017. A little more than three years after his all-everything career ended at Salmon River High in Riggins, Leighton Vander Esch steps into his first public appearance as a Boise State captain tonight. In the old days, he’d be spending hot July days rafting the Salmon with his friends.…… MORE
Beware Hawk when he carries that chip
Presented by WESTERN SIDING. Wednesday, July 19, 2017. There are 13 schools in the Big Sky Conference in football this year. The one picked to finish 11th in the preseason coaches and media polls at Big Sky Media Days in Park City is UC Davis. What’s significant about that is its head coach. If I…… MORE
The multi-tasking Cedrick Wilson
Presented by BACON. Tuesday, July 18, 2017. What did we say about Cedrick Wilson at the outset? After the Blue & Orange spring game in 2016, there was this: “What you have to like about Wilson is what he does on third down—two of his catches, going for eight and eleven yards, moved the chains…… MORE
Well, whataya think?
We’re about 50 days away from Boise State’s 2017 football season–the time of year when the questions start flying about how this team’s going to be. … MORE
Birthday numbers for Kellen Moore
Presented by CHUCK-A-RAMA BUFFET. Thursday, July 13, 2017. Yesterday was Kellen Moore’s 28th birthday. So how is it that he still looks 12? Moore is simply the guy who has captured the Fountain of Youth. It’s been 10 years now since he walked onto the Boise State campus as a peach-fuzzed 18-year-old from Prosser, WA.…… MORE
Jake Roh’s aberration season is past
Presented by CHUCK-A-RAMA BUFFET. Wednesday, July 12, 2017. The panel that compiles the watch list for the Mackey Award gave Boise State senior tight end Jake Roh a mulligan for his injury-riddled 2016 season. Roh is on the Mackey list again, with expectations that he’ll return to the form that saw him make 68 catches…… MORE
On the “watch list watch”
Presented by CLEARVIEW CLEANING. Tuesday, July 11, 2017. It’s the peak of prep for the 2017 college football season, and that means watch lists at every position. The Maxwell Football Club weighed in yesterday, and Boise State quarterback Brett Rypien is one of three Mountain West players named to the watch list for the Maxwell…… MORE
“Safe and secure”…
Presented by BACON. Presented by BERRYHILL. Monday, July 10, 2017. Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports.com has come out with his “2017 Hot Seat Rankings” for college football coaches, ranging from 5, “win or be fired,” to 0, “untouchable.” About half of the nation’s FBS coaches fall in 1, “safe and secure.” That’s where Boise State’s…… MORE
