Soobum Im-USA TODAY SportsGame facts Time: September 30th, 2022, 6 PM MST Location: Albertsons Stadium, Boise, ID Weather at kickoff: 71° party cloudy Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent Odds: Boise State by 6 TV: FS1 Radio: 670 KBOI Commentators: Alex “Not So” Faust, Petros “Rocks” Papadakis Other facts 1. Funnel Cakes! During my extensive (and exhaustive) research for this game, I discovered the preview interview for the game with SDSU DL Keshawn Banks. Of the experience he said, “Vividly I remember smelling funnel cakes for 3 hours straight” Combine that with Andy’s recent presser talking about t ..read more

Photo by Logan Stanford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This morning, several outlets have reported that Hank Bachmeier will choose to transfer from Boise State with two years of eligibility remaining. BJ Rains broke the news first. This development comes two days after the recent announcement that Boise State’s offensive coordinator, Tim Plough, had involuntarily parted ways with the school. Hank started his college career with bang. He came in as one of the top-two recruits in program history and immediately notched a signature win at Florida State, throwing for 407 yards on the Seminoles ..read more

Brian Losness-USA TODAY Sports In a move many saw as inevitable but doubted we’d see in such short order, Boise State second-year OC Tim Plough is officially OUT as Boise State offensive coordinator effective immediately—former Boise State HC and NFL HC/OC Dirk Koetter, who’d been serving as offensive analyst will take over in an interim capacity. Boise State’s offense under Plough just never found its rhythm and while the lion’s share fell of the criticism fell on him, the rest of the offensive unit contributed as well. Regardless, Boise State barely hit 30 PPG last year and couldn’t muster e ..read more

Photo by Sam Wasson/Getty Images It’s Sun Bowl time, everyone. Boise State looks to win their 3rd straight after an...uh...unceremonious(?) start in Corvallis. In about a half hour, the Broncos and Miners will square off for the 7th time (the Broncos have won every previous meeting) and everyone will likely commence whining about our offense and raving about our defense...are we San Diego State now? The game is on CBS Sports Network, 670 KBOI, and in our hearts. Hang out here if you want to discuss our boyz. We’ll be along after the festivities to recap what we just saw. GO BRONCOS ..read more

Photo by Tyler Ingham/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Let’s get to it. Here are the rules: We are going to keep this simple this year on the predict the scores. No need to overly complicate this. Guess the actual score as close as you can (obviously) but in the event that no one gets the score 100% correct, we are going to go with how close you guys were. Just... just make my job easier and get it right from the outset, mmkay? Tiebreakers: Let’s just not have ties, ok? I just need this to be fairly straight forward and easy on everyone. Especially since we aren’t going to be having any award ..read more

Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end Scene: Boise Avenue DAIRY QUEEN interior A visibly dejected OBNUG enters, sits in booth OBNUG: (loudly) “Barkeep, make me a Choco Brownie Extreme Blizzard™” DQ Employee: “Sir, you need to order at the counter” OBNUG: “I’ve got a punch card. My Blizzards pay your salary!” DQ Employee rolls their eyes OBNUG: “Plus I got fired today, you know.” DQ Employee makes a Blizzard™ OBNUG: “Outta nowhere. They just axed my entire website.” DQ Employee flips Blizzard™ upside down briefly OBNUG: “You kno ..read more

Photo by Tyler Ingham/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesGame facts Time: September 23rd, 2022, 7pm (MT) Location: Sun Bowl, El Paso, TX Weather at kickoff: 80° Odds: Boise State by 15.5 TV: CBS Sports Network Radio: 670 KBOI Commentators: Rich “Viennese” Waltz, Aaron “Raw Dog” Taylor, and Sherree “Go Brrr” Burress Other facts 1. No-no This will be the 7th all-time meeting ‘twixt the Broncos and Miners with every previous game ending with the same result: a Bronco win. The last time the teams met was just last season, when the Broncos gave Tim Plough his first and last opportunity to look at th ..read more

Marc Sanchez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The UT-Martin game had some good along with the not quite as good. For our part, we had some really good performances. Lets talk about them! Game Ball One: George Holani Mr. Holani had 226 all-purpose yards. 110 rushing yards. And his first rushing touchdown since last year. I didn’t know that I needed Holani to return punts. Seeing him in open space was awesome. Game Ball Two: Jonah Dalmas Mr. Dalmas hit all three FG attempts and all PAT attempts. He also garnered a less prestigious award: Mountain West special teams player of the week from the co ..read more

Photo by Tyler Ingham/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Broncos are headed to El Paso this week for the latter “home” of the “home and home” series with the Miners. Let’s take a look at the depth chart to see who will be lining up where! WIDE RECEIVER (X) 18 Billy Bowens, RsSr. 6-1, 198 80 Eric MacAlister, RsFr. 6-3, 195 -OR- 9 Shea Whiting, RsJr. 6-2, 205 WIDE RECEIVER (H) 7 Latrell Caples, RsSo. 6-1, 190 17 Davis Koetter, 6ySr. 6-2, 200 WIDE RECEIVER (Z) 5 Stefan Cobbs, RsSr. 6-0, 192 83 Cole Wright, RsSo. 6-0, 180 LEFT TACKLE 70 John Ojukwu, 6ySr. 6-6, 315 73 Joseph Amos, RsFr. 6-6, 310 ..read more

Boise State head football coach, Andy Avalos, addresses the Boise sports media the Monday before the team’s game in El-Paso vs UTEP | Michael Johnson, OBNUG.com The three, main Boise State football coaches met with the media today, in anticipation of this weekend’s matchup at the University of Texas-El Paso. All of the coaches provided some more technical details for their roles but also how they view the game. It was really interesting. Here is what each of them had to say: Boise State Head Football Coach, Andy Avalos: Boise State Defensive Coordinator, Spencer Danielson: Boise State Offen ..read more