That game should’ve been sold out.

Boise is new to having a TOP 10 team in their midst. With time, that should change.

Other schools like Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, and so on have been playing football longer than Idaho has been a state. It should be no surprise that they can sell out even when they play NMSU at home. Also they have developed national fan bases through all those years. Boise State is really only 14 years into their run, and even at that, only the last 4 or 5 years have they been even remotely on the national radar.

Nebraska didn’t fill an 80,000 seat stadium after a decade of major football. neither did Oklahoma, Florida, or any of them for that matter. It just so happens that was in 1905, and Boise State is faced with doing it now when every move is scrutinized by everybody, every moment of everyday.

Patience. In the meantime, get behind your team Boise! GO BRONCOS!

but no more or no less than most other towns. After 14 seasons of playing patsies, some of the fans are beginning to prove that since they know the outcome, what is the purpose of attending? What we need is a gasp, God forbid loss on the blue to wake people up. That would stick in people’s minds and keep them thinking: Maybe if I was there, they would’ve won. Or, maybe if I cheered a little louder, they would’ve pulled it out. That will motivate them to come out in droves and maybe stick around past the 3rd quarter. Ohio State loses at home from time to time and maybe that is why they got 101,000 fans v. NMSU.

Especially for further growth of the program.

Another reason to quit scheduling FCS opponents for home games.

let’s hope boise state can put the beatdown on the hokies.

I see no other way the BCS selections might happen.

Unless Arizona takes down USC.

i could see usc using two or maybe three of their qb’s in that game. tcu would win too 24 -17.

What’s the site that compares ballots in the AP poll? I can’t remember it, and can’t find it with a search engine.

I should have bookmarked it.

If angry, Adrian Peterson-esque runs are how Doug Martin recupes a leg injury…I’d hate to see how he gets over a cold.

As of the 2008 Census Bureau estimates, Boise’s population was 205,314 with a metropolitan area estimated to have 587,689 inhabitants, by far the most populous metropolitan area in Idaho. — says Wiki

So, because we can’t fill a stadium in which it’s maximum capacity is 16.8% of the whole population of metropolitan Boise and 5.9% of the surrounding area, we’re not a football town.

I doubt that the maximum capacity of larger football towns even graze 1% of the population of the cities they reside in/near.

I’m a Boise native. I played football at South Junior High. I was senior at Elko High School when Timmy Gilligan was freshman, and I attended Boise State.

My five year old entered kindergarten this fall. He also played his 1st year of tackle football. Full pads, helmets, everything. 200-300 people attended every game.
my eight year old played his 3rd year of football, I helped coach. We ran a spread/read option offense. We had a 2pt. conversion named “Boise Left”. We’re talking 8 and 9 year old boys here.

Pop Warner football begins at what age in Boise? 10? 12?