The Mikrino Poll: Raise your hand if you like dirty Nevada towns with casinos, brothels, and panhandlers.

Chris Ault raises his hand, but no one can see him, because he's only three feet tall.

Ault, before a college football contest, catches a glimpse of the field. *Not pictured: the two foot stepladder he's standing on.

Yes it's already time for another tasty Mikrino Poll. Since we've already begun with a hefty shot across the bow, what say we delve right into this one and start the name-calling. Weenies. I don't like The University of Nevada,Reno. More to the point, I don't like Reno the town. I lived in Northern Nevada for a decade, I visited Reno alot. I watched Bronco games at Mackay Stadium. When they re-vamped the stadium in the early 90's, My high school got their old bleachers. I almost attended UNR instead of Boise State. Several of my high school friends did go there. I'm ashamed of them now and we don't speak. Okay, not really, but it worked for the end of this paragraph.

Let's be a little truthful for a bit, Nevada is actually pretty good. The possibility of this upcoming game being a shoot-out is probably pretty good. Although we all heard the same thing about Hawaii, and Hawaii beat this Wolf Pack team. Here's my thing, if you have the Broncos games DVR'd, like I do, go back and watch the 1st quarter of every game since the opener. The Bronco Defense has been going crazy all season. In every game they have come out in the very first possession and sent a message to the opponent: You're gonna get rag-dolled all game long, best wishes, Bronco Defense. And then they do it, and it's impressive. Nevada is good offensively, if the Broncos can shut them down they way they have the last three games against other good offensive teams, it will be a good sign. I'm already giddy with excitement. Billy Winn is amazing on the interior line. He just pushes 300 pound men down and walks over them. Then, he gets to full speed in a half step and eats the quarterback like he's a Krispy Kreme.

Nathan Enderle has seen death, and it wears a Frohawk.

Then there's this guy;

Scampernick, runs like Peter Parker from those old Spider-Man cartoons. Except less cool and completely overrated.

Allow me to re-post a graph Kevan showed us all back in May, when Scampernick was on the ballot for Public Enemy No.1. I believe Kevan was spot on in his analysis.

Colin Kaepernick has been overblown since he came on the scene in 2007. You might recall him making his second college start  in Bronco Stadium back then. A game in which he was an unknown quantity, where he proceeded to quantify himself to the tune of 14 carries for 177 yards (12.64 ypc) and 2 TDs. He also threw for 243 yards and 3 scores. Four overtimes later the Broncos snuck out with a 69-67 win, and we all thank Tim Brady immensely for making the shoestring tackle that ended the game. Scampernick was born. And Graham Watson ran with it for the next couple seasons, assembling a hype-machine for him that led to him getting way too much pub for being an above average runningback with a poor completion percentage. He has won consistently, I'll give him that, no wait, he's lost consistently too. I'm confused. But anybody can do that in the WAC, am I right SEC fans? What does he have to show for all the hype? WAC offensive player of the year. WAC Champs? Nope. Bowl wins? Nada. Undefeated seasons? Zero. Let me get this straight, They've went 6-7(2007), 7-6(2008), and 8-5(2009) With Scampernick at QB. Exactly how good is he? Hmmm?

Here's why Nevada will lose this week's game. Defense. Broncos has it, Wolf Packs don't.

Scoring Defense: 38th (21.7ppg)

Rushing Defense: 21st (124.64ypg)

Passing Defense: 103rd (249.9ypg 6.9 per attempt)

Total Defense: 66th (374.5ypg)

The Scoring Defense rank might be legit, but it's not top-caliber. And the only top rated offense they faced, they lost to 27-21. Let's have a look;

I know what you're thinking. How did they get twenty thousand people to come watch them beat San Jose State? Have you ever been in Reno on a Saturday night? Yeah well I have, and I'm not ready to talk about it yet. Seriously though, the marquis victory Nevada is clinging to is the beat down of Cal in mid-September. I watched that game, it was impressive. But Cal is the Fresno State of the PAC10. They can look like behemoths one week/quarter/year and then take a massive dump the very next week/quarter/year. Outside of that win and the loss to Hawaii, really not much to write home about. Unless your Graham Watson, then you've got at least 15-20 blogposts about Scampernick you can rattle off from memory.

Nevada is a good team, the BCS Computers say so. But Boise State is an excellent team that ranks in the top 10 in almost every statistical category people track. And probably a few they don't. One thing about the WAC, they suck against Boise State in football, and it's been that way for awhile. Nevada especially has looked inept against the Broncos for the last few years. I've never seen so many people hang their hat on a 4OT loss, but whatever works I guess. When bascially nobody in the conference is in the same realm as Boise State you do that kind of stuff; "Man the Broncos only beat us by 2 points in 4OT's, we sure hung in there, made 'em work."  Huh? You did lose though?

I'll be out this week again so you'll once again have free reign to make fun of me in my absence. Or hate me, whatevs. Know this, you'll be in the snow in Idaho, I'll be in the 80 degree sunshine of Daytona Beach, watching my oldest son kick butt and take names in the National Youth Football Championships. Plus I'll have my Thanksgiving dinner at Hooters, haters gonna hate.

Nobody should be surprised when I say Boise State will dominate this week. Pjohn56 had a great post on another thread where he basically said that this Bronco team looked determined to march through anyone to prove the naysayers wrong. The chip on their shoulders is massive right now, and they be pissed. Rightfully so, I might add. Stewart Mandel tweeted that Boise State has the best D-Line in the nation, hands down. That's right SEC homers, you lose. Pat Hill said in all his games he's never been thoroughly dominated the way they were the other night. He also said he'd take Boise State over any team in the country right now, and when it comes right down to it, people are scared to play the Broncos. His mouth might be writing checks his mustache can't cash, but it sounded good anyway. Be proud Bronco Nation. And if there's anytime to spend a night in Reno, it's this Friday.

And somebody do me a favor and go get kicked off this Mizzou Blog this week. They're asking for it.

Onto the poll.