Is Boise State WORTHY of a National Championship this year?

It’s true that we haven’t seen a complete game out of these guys quite yet, but aside from the kicking game, there aren’t any glaring deficiencies (and even there it may not be so bad: 1/1 on field goals, eh?). The Broncos have ruthlessly dominated every opponent except maybe Toledo on defense, and Toledo still could only manage a single touchdown and a last-minute field goal in the first half. Even though the team’s been struggling to execute, they’ve been crushing their opponents so badly the games were still largely decided before they began. As commentators would say about some SEC team that barely edges some FCS team, “good teams find a way to win,” and even as BSU’s been spotting its opponents free yards and points nobody’s gotten close to catching up to the Broncos in garbage time, let alone threatening an upset. The defense is suffocating when it matters, and the offense has been limited more by its own mistakes than by opposing defenses.

That said, the difficulties that we’ve been seeing are all fixable, and have been getting fixed. The kicking game is better, the tackling is more effective, they’re not giving up too many big plays anymore, and rumors of the running game’s death have been greatly exaggerated. By the end of the season, we might not even have anything to complain about (though people will still find something).

All the trouble mentioned above, and maybe more. But we’ve still won all of our games thus far handily. When the kinks all get worked out, and we’re firing on all cyclinders, people better watch the hell out.

I’ll “settle” for a BCS Bowl. I spent all last season on pins and needles hoping Boise State would stay ahead of TCU and get into a big bowl. When the game that shall not be mentioned occurred I labeled the season as a failure (for a day or two…or seven, whatever). This year, I’m enjoying the players. Doug, Kellen, Billy, Shea, Nate, Mitch, Thomas, etc. etc. in their final year. So I don’t care about a NC, because we’ve had great season’s before that didn’t result in us getting there. I’m concerned about quality of play. In that regards, we have been left wanting. Execution isn’t there and at times we look very sloppy. Drops, fumbles, interceptions, missed tackles, blown blocking assignments. It’s very uncharacteristic of this team. I’m sorry the author of this post got blown up for expressing his opinion. If you need a true measuring stick of our team’s performance this year I suggest listening to Coach Pete’s comments during and after games. He’s still searching for a complete game, so I think it’s absolutely acceptable for us to do the same. That doesn’t mean we’re not dominating, it just means we’ve yet to fire on ALL cylinders. And other top ten teams have looked more complete than us. It’s not the end of the world. It’s the beginning of the season. But on a side note, y’all need to quit acting like anyone who points out some of our team’s deficiencies is a bad fan or a bandwagon fan. It’s a cop-out and an unnecessary personal attack. If you don’t believe that, you might want to think about how you react when someone calls you a bandwagon fan.

YES! I thnk Boise should get a shot at the title if they win out.
However, we all know that the hard nosed critics will use yesterdays game against Nevada as a reason to label Boise as " mediocre" again. Let’s face it- we didn’t look that spectacular. But then again, neither did anyone else yesterday?( I will say that TExas made a statement yesterday)
It’s so funny that any of the teams in the so called " big boy" conferences are allowed one off game. But not teams like Boise. Damn we need a playoff system!

We don’t need to be calling each other out for pointing out things that are wrong with the team. At the same time we have to realize that BSU football has set an impossibly high standard. Is there cause to worry when they don’t meet that standard? A little bit, maybe. But again, every game has been won by 2+ TDs.

To answer the original question, I worry about our team’s chances in a NCG right now. But they are still figuring things out, and fighting through an amazing number of injuries, and they are still undefeated. Let’s ask this question again towards the end of the season. Despite what some dip-BW SEC fan will tell you, there are still some challenges left on the schedule.

But it would help if the rest of the MWC would just win!

Yes, this is what I feel only what, 5 weeks into the season? Yes, I know we’re improving, but teams in front of us AND behind us are improving greatly as well. (Ex. Wisconsin and Alabama this week.) But one major point to make is that the top ten or so have actually been playing some “cupcake” teams for these weeks, while we have faced some stiff MAC and C-USA competition.

I know we have EXTREME potential with our team, but from what I’ve seen, there’s extreme potential on every team around us as well. Look at LSU, Oklahoma, and Alabama in front of us. While they may have their weaknesses, they are all better rounded teams than us this far in the season. Also, look behind us at teams like Clemson, Oklahoma St., and Stanford.

But as we all know, ANYTHING can happen in CFB. Teams/players can have bad weeks, like we saw with Kellen this week. All it takes is a bad week for a few teams around us to change my mind. With games with the likes of LSU – Alabama, Wisconsin – MSU/OSU, Oklahoma – TA&M/OK St., still looming on the schedule, it’s VERY possible to see teams faltering and showing more weaknesses.

We’ve got off to a slow start undoubtedly, and are still establishing those go-to athletes. Once we establish these threats, I have no doubt we will be a team to be reckoned with. But if we continue to play like this, I’m not so sure the media and voters will consider us worthy for a bowl game of BCS magnitude.

Kellen overthrows a few guys, a few passes are dropped in the numbers that would have been touchdowns. At 30-10, this game was in COMPLETE control and could have easily been 44-10 or 51-10 and instead of having this nonsense conversation, we’d be shopping for blue and orange beads for New Orleans. So our passing game was off one day for the first time in 3.5 years? That’s hardly worth worrying about. Is anyone really concerned about our passing game? The good news is, our defense looked dominant, the running game came out of hiding, our special teams were solid as they have been all season, and we made a field goal. Put the passing game back to where it usually is and you’ve got a recipe to blow teams out of the water.