Ed's note: Leaking Phil Steele information is the new planking. Everyone's doing it, from ESPN blogger Andrea Adelson to Mountain West tycoon Jeremy Mauss. So far we know that Boise State is ranked No. 3 and destined for a Fiesta Bowl with Notre Dame. But that is just the tip of the iceberg.

The rest of the iceberg is after the jump, courtesy of OBNUG reader killtacular and his stellar FanPost that is now a stellar main post. If you enjoy your Phil Steele magazines like you enjoy your Hunger Games novels - suspenseful and uncorrupted - you should probably stop reading here. Spoilers ahead. Enjoy.

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So, thanks to the amazing work of your OBNUG editors, here are links to every numerical countdown in one post. Sorry if this was already posted, but if not, here are your BOISE STATE BRONCOS! (Please post comments if I screwed anything up so I can fix it.). SBNation allows "featured posts" or whatever, and this should be one to honor the effort Drew (and Kevin and Nick) put into profiling 100 Broncos!

#1 Titus Young, WR, SR

#2 Austin Pettis, WR, SR

#3 Chris Potter, WR, SO

#4 Carlos Audagnotti, RB, SO

#5 Jason Robinson, NB, SR

#6 DJ Harper, RB, JR

#7 Mike Coughlin, QB, SR

#8 George Iloka, S, JR

#9 Mikey Tamburo, QB, FM

#10 Jerrel Gavins, CB, JR

#11 Kellen Moore, GOD, JR

#12 Jim McMillan, QB, ETERNAL

#13 Brandyn Thompson, CB, SR

#14 Trevor Harman, P, RFM

#15 Joe Southwick, QB, RFM

#16 Cedric Febis, FS, JR

#17 Winston Venable, NB, SR

#18 Aaron Burks, WR, RFM

#19 Josh Borgman, CB, SO

#20 Mitch Burroughs, WR, SO

#21 Jamar Taylor, CB, SO

#22 Doug Martin, TERMINATOR, JR

#23 Jeron Johnson, SS, SR

#24 Malcolm Johnson, RB, RFM

#25 Hunter White, NB, JR

#26 Matt Kaiserman, RB, SO

#27 Jeremy Avery, RB, SR

#28 Jarvis Hodge, RB, SR

#29 Tyler Jackson, WR, SO

#30 Travis Stanaway, SS, JR

#31 Antwon Murray, CB, JR

#32 Jonathan Brown, S, RFM

#33 Tommy Smith, LB, (Apparently unknown year).

#34 Kirby Moore, WR, ISO

#35 Kyle Brotzman, K/P/KOS,SR

#36 Aaron Tevis, LB, JR

#37 Ebenezer Makinde, CB, RFM

#38 Raphiel Lambert, RB, SO

#39 Drew Wright, FB, SO

#40 Troy Ware, WR, FM

#41 Kharyee Marshall, DE, RFM

#42 Matt Wilson, LB, JR

#43 Ricky Tjong-A-Tjoe, DT, RFM

#44 Allen Mooney, LB, RFM

#45 Daron Mackey, LB, SR

#46 Grant Hedrick, QB, FM

#47 Dan Paul, FB, JR

#48 J.C. Percy, LB, SO

#49 Brad Elkin, P, SR

#50 J.P. Nisby, DT, JR

#51 James Crawford, LS, SO

#52 Derrell Acrey, LB, SR

#53 Matt Miller, WR, FM

#54 Michael Ames, OL, SO

#55 Chuck Hayes, DT, JR

#56 John Michael Davis, LB, RFM

#57 Garret Pendergast, OL, JR

#58 Jeremy Ioane, SS, FM

#59 Will Lawrence, OG, SR

#60 n Darren Lee, LB, FM

#61 Joe Kellogg, OG, SO

#62 Kevin Sapien, Thanks for Everything, Graduate (right? hopefully?)

#63 Kyle Sosnowski, TE, FM

#64 Brenel Myers, OL, SO

#65 Matt Paradis, DT, RFM

#66 Thomas Byrd, C, JR

#67 Tyler Horn, DE, FM

#68 Bryan Douglass, CB, FM

#69 Hazen Moss, LB, SO

#70 Zach Waller, OL, JR

#71 Cory Yriarte, OL, JR

#72 Matt Slater, OL, SR

#73 Nate Potter, Ryan Clady, JR

#74 Tyrone Crawford, DE, JR

#75 Faraji Wright, OT, SO

#76 Jake Broyles, OT, RFM

#77 Spencer Gerke, OG, RFM

#78 Chalres Leno, OT, RFM

#79 Bronson Durrant, OG, SO

#80 Kyle Efaw, TE, JR

#81 Nick Alexander, DE, RFM

#82 Geraldo Hiwat, WR, RFM

#83 Sean King, TE, SR

#84 Jimmy Pavel, PK, SO

#85 Tommy Gallarda, TE, SR

#86 Holden Huff, TE, FM

#87 Gabe Linehan, TE, RFM

#88 Chandler Koch, TE, SO

#89 Tyler Shoemaker, WR, JR

#90 Billy Winn, DT, JR

#91 Greg Grimes, DT, SO

#92 Shea McClellin, DE, JR

#93 Justin Jungblut, DT, FM

#94 Byron Hout, LB, JR

#95 Darren Koontz, DT, SO

#96 Jarrel Root, awesome afro DE, JR

#97 Chase Baker, DT, JR

#98 Ryan Winterswyk, QB DESTROYER, SR

#99 Michael Atkinson, DT, SO

So, here is BSU VaTech Bingo.  A little more than half are in-game events, the rest involve the broadcast of the game (since Mark Johnson isn't broadcasting, I didn't do a Doug Harper entry).  Hopefully the thing actually does get a BINGO (or, I suppose, an OBNUG).  If it doesn't, the game may very well not turn out all that great.  Can't wait for the game, less than a week to go!

 

Sorry for a selfish post.  Anyways, I just found out that my girlfriend has to work at 7:30 in the morning the day after the VaTech game.  As a result, she won't be going.  Further, she needs the car to get to work, so I can't drive to the game.  Now, I can get on  Amtrack and make it there, but it would be cheaper to go by car.  So if anyone is in the New York City/New Jersey/Philadelphia area and is planning on driving down to DC for the game, and would like to split gas/tolls, that would be awesome.  Further, if you aren't a jerk, have just one of you going, and don't mind sleeping on a couch, I probably have a place for you to stay as well.  In any case, you won't have to pick me up - my girlfriend can drop me off wherever you are - and any day or time you are leaving is fine.  If this sounds good to anyone, please email me at jdelange at princeton dot edu or leave a comment here.  Sorry again for the selfish post.

So, lots of people complain about BSU's strength of schedule.  For a very good strategy of dealing with them, see Mikrino's thorough overview.  But, it must be said, there is something to these complaints.  Its true that BSU would probably not go undefeated in most BCS conferences (although I'd challenge anyone that we wouldn't go 8-4 or 9-3 or 10-2 right now in any of them, easy (and perhaps better if the breaks went our way), and then the money/recruiting/etc; its also true that some BSU stats are probably inflated relative to the stats of individuals in the BCS conferences.  But whatever.  Lets look at what BCS programs would do if they were in BSU's situation in the last two years.

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So this will in no way attempt to match Kevan's recap of the Street and Smith/Sporting News preview magazine, but at least has some of the player rankings from Steele's annual magazine.

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So Stephanie Stradley, over at her blog http://blogs.chron.com/texanschick/2010/05/more_on_ben_tate_and_what_spee.html, gets an interview with the managing editor of Football Outsiders, to discuss ... weightspeed!  Seriously, although they call it "speed score" for some lame reason.  It is calculated differently than how we have been imagining things, but its still weightspeed.  And guess which running back had the best weightspeed/"speed score" in the 2010 draft?  Thats right, Mr. Ben Tate of Auburn.  Interesting read, regardless.

First reported by ESPN and since confirmed by the Idaho Statesman, Gonzaga assistant Leon Rice has been named the new head coach for the Boise State men's basketball team. Rice had been at Gonzaga for the last 11 years. Hopefully he can do something similar for Boise State! Is this a good hire or not? Is it enough to get you excited about Boise State basketball again?

Share your thoughts in the comments. More information and quotes - including a recruiting soap opera - after the jump.

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Thomas Jones.  The guy is 32, but last year he put up 1400 yards and 14 touchdowns for the jets.  The year before: 1300 yards and 13 touchdowns.

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Well, perhaps not, but close. Check out his AP ballot here.  He has the Broncos ranked 11th: lowest of any voter.  He also has Oregon ranked 20th: again lowest of any voter.  And for the semi-absurd kicker: HE HAS IDAHO RANKED!  Just 25th, but still.  Is this the first time Idaho has ever received a top-25 vote?  Is there any conceivable reason he could be higher on Idaho than any other voter in the country, but lower on BSU than any other voter?  He's a USC alum, not a Vandal.  Could it be just so he could make this stupid blog post?

 

Very interesting stats from Paul Kuharsky about QB ratings in the AFC South broken down by situation here.  Perhaps not surprisingly, with standard pressure Schaub decimates all other AFC South quarterbacks (and probably any other quarterback as well) with a passer rating of 126.6.  However, with added pressure, his rating plummets to 61.3, good for worst in the AFC South.  We also get that Schaub is unbelievable when passing for 11-20 yards, with a passer rating of 155.8, which approaches perfection, but is a somewhat more pedestrian 95.8 when when passing for 21-30 yards.  Bottom line: Schaub appears unstoppable when he isn't being blitzed and is throwing to around 15 yards from the line of scrimmage, but if he gets blitzed he becomes very, very mortal.  None of which is all that surprising, but interesting to see confirmed statistically.

Hadn't seen anyone link this yet at brb, but Paul Kuharsky is reporting that Dunta (and Cushing) will start on Sunday, though with playcounts.  Seems like good news as long as its because of their perceived readiness and not just to avoid embarassment/the crappiness of their backups.  I'm a little confused about the preset playcounts, though.  Do the Texans think they aren't sufficiently conditioned?  Or that they will only be in on certain plays (i.e., theones they are up to speed on).  Otherwise, it seems that how they are performing should dictate whether they come out or not.