Boise State beats down the Vandals, 63-25; winning streak against Idaho moves to 11 straight

Keeping 1st team offense to score a meaningless td, go for 2, and then onside kick it? Hope the broncs keep that in mind for next year.

Pettis was huge today, but so was the rest of the offense.

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Pettis!

three observations.

1. austin pettis has the best hands i’ve ever seen. i swear he can catch anything.

2. titus young’s 100+ kickoff return for a td really broke the vandals spirit. it was a thing of beauty.

3. vandals radio announcers bigger jerks than vandal fans. they called for akey to put twelve men on the field, blitz moore and put him out of the game if coach pete put him back into the game after the broncos challenged the fumble recovery late in the game. they whined because bsu challenged the play but it should have been reviewed as a matter of course anyway. they said ‘wait ’til next year.’ i say yeah, wait ‘til next year — we’ll give them more of the same kind of behind-the-tool-shed-beating again in moscow.

That was going to be the title of the next podcast. Kidding.

Kellen Moore staying in the game and the response from ESPN and the Vandal Crew is something as damned if we damned if we don’t. People criticize the Broncos by not blasting La Tech, but when the Broncos blast the Vandals they get criticized. Had the Broncos wanted to they could have scored 80 plus today.

The best moment of the day is Kellen Moore begging to go for it on 4th and 10. That Bronco Nation is a huge sign of Kellen’s competitive desire.

When ref is standing 2 feet from the ball being caught and the calls it a catch. The replay booth should not question the call and stop wasting everyones time, while making the ref that made the correct call look like he has no idea what he is doing.

I do agree that Pettis was the player of the game but there were plenty other great players making great plays that it made it a tough choice to leave them out.

Oh yea, and Kellen Moore is still a stud!

was the Idaho band wearing skirts? Did you guys catch an eyeful of that? I guess I can sort of understand boys wearing the short kilt things, but these were like girly skirts. It was weird…

moore (22/31 298 yards 5 tds), young (6 catches 101 yards 1 td 100 yard kickoff return for a td, pettis (8 catches 123 yards 4 tds), wilson (71 yard interception return for a td), thompson (2 interceptions), acrey (1 interception), tevis (1 interception), avery (14 carries for 111 yards 1 td) all deserve game balls. this was truly an outstanding team effort and obviously the most complete game the broncos have played this year.

Is Kellen Moore the best QB the broncos have ever had. Man he looked REAL good today. He should easily set all of BSU’s passing records before he is done. He is the real deal. Hard to believe he is still a sophomore. There is a chance this kid could lead us to the promised land. Maybe not this year, maybe next. I am feeling pretty good about us getting a BCS bowl game this year, with USC losing and Ohio winning. Go Broncos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I called Pete and said 63-21. Defense must not have gotten the message. :)

That was a great game to watch. I can’t complain can I?

i thought maybe the tuba players were german woman or something?? (Politically Correct? Ooops..haha) until my friend pointed out “well, that one has a beard.” Haha. That was priceless.

No need for field goals tonight.

And I love when a team puts two guys back on punt return to protect against the rugby kick and then Brotzman sails it over their heads.

BSU was ripped apart last week when we play La Tech; the announcers kept saying that BSU needed to preform better against a lowly team like La Tech. La Tech came very close to beating LSU tonight, and I did not a word about how LSU was exposed!? The announcers on ESPNU kept saying how aggressive La Tech was and then explaining how great LSU really was! Not one word about style points needed for LSU.

LSU just got WAC’ed!

i missed it, and really wanna see this game!

Any word on Kaiserman’s injury or the BSU tuba player who did a faceplant while coming off the field during halftime?

From BroncoSports.com:

• Austin Pettis improves to 31-straight games with a reception and ten straight
games with a touchdown.

• Pettis also improved to 15-straight games with multiple receptions.

• Pettis has 14 touchdown receptions this season for a new school record of
touchdowns in a season (old record of 13 was held by Don Hutt (1974) and
Mike Holton (1975). It also marks his career-best of touchdowns in a game.

• Pettis ties the school record for touchdown receptions in a game with four.
(Tied with Rodney Smith, 1998; John Smith, 1974; Don Hutt, 1971)

• Pettis jumps Ryan Ikebe for career touchdowns with 29 total. The mark is
good for second-best total in school history. Hutt holds the school record of
30 career touchdowns.

from my DVR (doesn’t everyone do that when they get back from the game???) and aside from finding it to be really inappropriate that you can hear me screaming excitedly “COME ON JERRELL!!!!!”, when our favorite back up CB went in when Kyle Wilson was down on the turf banged up, I am really psyched watching how dominant the o-line was today. The run game was there all day, which I think obviously contributed to the passing numbers that we were able to put up. Just a great game all the way around. The defense was fearsome, Kellen Moore is unreal and someone needs to check Austin Pettis’ gloves for super glue.

Let the ballot box stuffing begin for Akey!

’Stache Bash 2009

I really liked the hurry up offense we used at the beginning of the game. Could this be the cure for our slow starts? It certainly seemed to help today…

Oh, and was anyone else mad at the referee? He was letting Idaho’s D-linemen hit Kellen quite late. They didn’t get a roughing the passer call ONCE, and I think they should have had two or three. Jerks. Stop hitting our quarterback!

Oh, and it is official. Kellen Moore actually breaths during Vandal games. I remember last year, he showed some emotion up there in Moscow, and now this year, he was quite animated (for him) on several occasions. I loved when he wanted to go for it on 4th down. I wish he would have…

Sorry I didn’t make it to the tailgate! My dad and I walked over, but we couldn’t find you guys. You guys may have gone into the game already. Maybe it will work out some other time.

Pettis is not human. He’s some kind of football catching machine. Maybe a Cyborg.
I know he’s the best receiver I’ve seen at Boise State.

Titus Young is this years Percy Harvin, but better because he plays for Boise State.

Going to the game was awesome! DVRing the game and watching when I got home was almost as awesome.

Speaking of which, Kaiserman definitely broke his ankle. I watched the replay in slow motion. You can see it bend the opposite direction. Yuck.

Kellen Moore is also a machine. He deserves to be in the top 3 of Heisman contenders.

The D gave up some yards but absolutely made up for it by forcing 7 turnovers.

Reader threw in Wilson’s direction and made him pay. Then he threw in Thompson’s direction, and Thompson made him pay twice. Then Reader went over the middle with a little bit of success…until they turned the ball over.

It felt good to blowout the Vandals. They can hang their heads as they fly up north in the Bronco Plane to communist Moscow and continue to be lead by Akey’s Red Army.

Ruined my score prediction of 63-17.

I hate you Robb Akey! I HATE YOOOOUUUUUUUU!!!

…and ESPN ignores it. Does it happen?

One interception in each of the last three games. Two of them were pick-sixes. I see a pattern here and it excites me.

Some excellent quotes.

"I think we’ll probably drop about three or four notches."
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Petersen then flashed a wry grin and tapped his feet, as if pleased with his jab at the pollsters who help decide the BCS.

Trey Farquhar’s kickoff soared 7 yards deep into the end zone. Young appeared ready to concede a touchback, but teammate Doug Martin urged him to run it out.
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Great idea. Young sprinted untouched down the right sideline. Winston Venable leveled Farquhar at the Idaho 40 to wipe out the Vandals’ last chance at the tackle—and the upset.
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"Coach Pete told me to hold him in if it was too deep," Martin said. "But with 27 seconds left I thought, ‘What does it matter?’ So I waved him out.

"I didn’t expect to get blown out like this," Akey said. "I knew that they were a good football team—but I didn’t expect for this to happen."

• Throw to shoemaker, dropped ball. Throw to Pettis, duh!
• Moore is amazing. Pettis makes Moore invincible.
• 7 turnovers (5 INTs, 2 fumbles) wasn’t Idaho screwing up.. they were ALL forced. All balls with Idaho logo go to the Bronco D.
• Kaiserman sacrifices life and limb to ensure Boise has 0 turnovers.
• Isn’t the Coughlin gameplan a little unfair? Run for short, run for short, see if Coughlin can make 3rd and long.
• Watching in the Taco Bell Arena sounded like a good idea…. until the power goes out.
• During the ‘power outage,’ ESPNU showed that Titus scored a touchdown. Said I to wife, “I wonder if Young got a excessive celebration flag for jawing to the cameras that weren’t even on.”
• Thank you WAC officials, for ruing an awesome run by throwing a phantom Kirby Moore holding flag.
• Scored on Offense, Defense, and Special Teams. I voted for Pettis, but there isn’t one person who didn’t deserve player of the game (except for Burroughs. Sorry, Mitch).
• A surprisingly clean game. Maybe Idaho has matured… oh, wait. Let’s throw a shove when they finally punt the ball to us.

• TCU is good. And I’m tired of cheering against them. I respect the program and Coach Patterson and want them to succeed.

Proof that Herb is not a complete douche bag:

http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/ncf/index (at the very end of the recap clip)

“And yes, Kellen Moore was still in the game with the outcome already in doubt”

to be fair, the outcome of the game was never in doubt :).

But yes, that was an awesome game! Gameballs to everybody!

I saw Moore passed Steve Young for 19th on the WAC career passing touchdowns list. Which is pretty sweet considering he has more than two seasons left!

I can’t really add anything that hasn’t already been said. So, I’ll just second all the comments about how impressive the game was for the Bromcos. Finally, the Broncos showed intensity and execution. This looks like the team we have been waiting to see all season.
 You know, it isn’t exactly a bad thing to play Kellen for more than three quarters. The offense dies and all momentum stops when Coughlin comes in. I agree with Loque, the play calling is terrible when Coughlin comes into the game. It’s like letting off the gas pedal and coasting to a stop. Coughlin must have some talent, as he was a good recruit prospect and has been in the system for four years, but he is never used in a competitive manner. Instead of continuing to attack, with Coughlin at QB, they use him to hand off to the RB, pretty much just using him to fill in the offensive possession requirement, and going three and out. I’d love to see him behind the starting line, with the starting WRs and RBs. I want to see that strong arm of his just once, and I want to see if he can sustain a drive. We may need him, at some point, and he has no real game experience. He is being taught not to compete.
 As great as Pettis and Young are, it’s Kellen who puts the ball on target for them. Moore is unbelievably great. All three of those guys deserve player of the game.
 The thrill is back, for me, after seeing the Broncos play like a top ten team. Make no mistake, I love the Broncos, but this is the first game, this year, they have looked like a Bronco team.