Hyperbole alert: Is Boise State - Virginia Tech "the biggest game in the history of Bronco football?"

Without a Fiesta Bowl 1.0 win, this game wouldn’t even be on the radar. But if we beat VT, come December, this could be the biggest one…until 1/10/2011.

Ranked in the top 5. Road game against a conference favorite. The road game is a de facto home game for Virginia Tech. Win this game and the Broncos set themselves up for a national title bid.

Every game this year could be the biggest in Bronco history. It may sound cliched to a Bronco fan but it’s true. Boise State may go ahead and beat Virginia Tech, only to turn around and lose to Wyoming in their next game. Woo Hoo! Boise State won their “biggest game” but that win didn’t put them in the NC game.

And it is on ESPN 3D, which is two entire dimensions greater than any previous Boise State game.

Funny, I don’t recall any BSU games being broadcast in 1D.

This game all rides on the season outcome and voter opinion of whether Boise belongs in a national championship. If it has to depend on so much other than the game itself, it is not the biggest game of ever.

I would say no, like Kevan listed above there are so many big games that BSU has played in. It seems that the media is the ones who are hyping this as the biggest game in BSU history, but so many games have already been hyped as that in the past. Others have said it, but Coach Pete would disagree, it’s just another game to him and his players. There are lots of supposed implications for BSU no matter the outcome of the game, so that is why it is receiving all the hype.

Looks like I am going against the popular choice here. The only reason I think it is bigger then fiesta bowl 1.0 (by a hair) is the opprotunity we have to “proove” ourselves to the east coast. Remember last time we played over there, Georgia. There is such an east coast bias in college football. This will, in my opinion, give us an opprotunity to redeem our Georgia trip

The Virginia Tech game is important, but if you were to ask Coach Pete, so is the Wyoming game. And the Oregon State game. And the New Mexico State game. And so on. If the rationale behind naming the VT game as the biggest in history is national championship implications, then you had better be prepared to call each and every game after the opener “the biggest game” as well

Who doesn’t know anything about Boise State football, I’d say this game is the most biggest game.

Yes, I know if they somehow lose later in the season, this game loses it’s importance.

But for right now… to me it seems to be the “biggest game of all time.” I guess I look at it this way: in a perfect scenario, what would be the biggest game of all time for Boise? The National Championship game.

This season, with the high preseason ranking needed in this day in age to stay relevant and in the hunt for a NCG appearance, the returning talent, the expecatations, etc… this season seems likes the best change for BSC to make the NCG game. So, to me, the VT game, seems like one of the major obstacles in BSU’s path this year. If they lose on Labor Day, the chance as the real “biggest game of all time” completely goes away.

That’s why I peg this one as the ‘biggest of all time.’ But, again, this is coming from a VT fan and a total outsider to BSU football.

Are not NEARLY as obnoxious and lacking in self awareness than other (looking at you, Oregon) opponents? Maybe it comes from having been where we are at more recently… There are a few 14 year old basement goblins, but everyone has those and VT fans in general are really pretty good dudes. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to ruin their lives for just one weekend this year, I’m just sayin..

I’m not convinced some of the obnoxious ones are really VT fans either.

To the ones “getting it”, i hear it makes all the difference. The routine response is, “it’s what you do with it that matters”…but that’s only for them as ain’t got it.

Can the Broncs ’give it"?

Have you ever seen a stallion at work? He does not differeniate from the prettiest or scruffy filly to the odest mare..when it’s time to mount..he goes at it with all he’s got!!!

This is a big game for the bank accounts of the media and BCS, but the stallions here are the Broncs and it’s as big as every stud session he ever had before!!!

If the Broncos win all regular season games this season and because of losses to teams in BCS conference the Broncos get to the NC game, then this game will have become the most important game in school history. If the team suffers a loss, or even just ends up in a non-NC BCS bowl game, then it will not have been the most important game. A big game, yes, but not the biggest.

See, there’s a the funny thing about history: it’s only written after the actual events have happened.

Then, using that same logic, you could say that last years Fiesta Bowl was the most important game in our schools history. Had we lost last that game, we would hopefully be ranked at No. 10 where TCU is ranked and our conversation would be “if we can just beat VT and the rest of our schedule, we may get into another BCS game.” If we didn’t get the preseason ranking we have, we would have never been able to jump a 1 or maybe even 2 loss SEC/Big 12 team. We wouldn’t even be able to jump TCU (assuming they win all their games).

In addition, the game is the first Boise State visit east of the Mississippi since the 2005 Georgia debacle.

Are you sure this game actually happened? I have my doubts.

Plus, the Broncos have played higher ranked opponents twice before (No. 7 Oklahoma and No. 4 TCU).

Fresno was #8 when we decided to make them our bit concubines for life.

I think that was the big one, we had to redeem ourselves from the poinsietta bowl,had we not done that there would be no talk of the importance of the VT game or NCG hopes.

Was there supposed to be a stadium expansion announcement today? Or is it expected next Friday?

53,000? Awesome!! I wish there was a picture!
http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2010/08/27/ccripe/boise_state_unveils_bronco_stadium_master_plan_53000_seats_new_f

But consider that a win against Va Tech sets the stage for a possible BCS National Championship run. This is the game everyone is talking about, nationally. By no means is it the biggest, but an important game in the evolution of the Boise State Football Program.

Then again a win over Va Tech means that the next game against Wyoming would be the next most important game. In the eyes of Coach Pete they all are important and big for that matter.

Though the game is huge this season, it’s not the biggest in the school history.
Either of the 2 BCS games are bigger.
Although BSU has a short D-1 history, it has compiled games that have brought it to this place, while placing BCS conference schools in suspended disbelief.

Even before I knew who your coach was, I was always a big fan of the idea that every (or the next) game is the biggest – I’ve never understood how some schools get passes for a losses, particularly crappy losses. To me, Florida did not belong in their “BCS” game and neither did LSU, and those two “SEC National Championships” are purely manufactured.

Unfortunately, BSU does have a lot of perception questions, sort of – but I do think the eyeball comment is correct. More folks will likely watch the VT/BSU game on Monday than any other game ever (although more folks CLAIM to have seen Fiesta 1.0). But most fans (see ESPN college football polls which have some 50% plus of 60K voters wanting to see the Broncos — myself included — play for that “BCS ‘National Championship’”) will accept a Branco victory than some of you guys are thinking, it’s some of the media and some others that still need their arms twisted (and brains reconfigured).