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One of the biggest knocks on Boise State this year was that the Broncos didn’t play any truly difficult opponents between their season-opening bout with Oregon and their Fiesta Bowl showdown with fellow undefeated mid-major TCU.
The Broncos have an opportunity to fix that … in the year 2015. Nebraska has offered a two-for-one deal that would see Boise play a pair of games in Lincoln in return for the ‘Huskers traveling to Idaho and trying to find blue-clad Broncos on the smurf turf. There’s apparently been no word from Boise officials.
Corn Nation, our Nebraska blog, thinks this is a good idea. And some Boise fans seem irritated that State hasn’t taken the deal.
Yeah, Nebraska gets two of the three home games, but Boise State gets a home game against a marquee national championship contender plus a huge payday. There would be no trouble selling out that one, and I’m sure that it would make at least a primetime game on ESPN.
Of course, if the buzz is to be believed, Boise will be part of an improved, BCS-certified Mountain West Conference by then. Which would make this one of those rare inter-BCS-conference battles.
Either way, a win for college football fans.
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Very cool
Mountain West Connection
by Jeremy Mauss on Jan 19, 2010 12:14 PM EST reply actions
I've heard
that the Broncos still want to get paid big bucks to agree to this deal.
If so, that’s a bit counter- intuitive to BSU’s case. Major programs that should be taken seriously come national championship debate time don’t act like small schools looking for a payday.
IMHO
Of course the conversation degenerated...
You were having it with a bunch of degenerates.
by MaliBuckeye at The BBC on Jan 24, 2010 2:48 AM EST reply actions
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