The No. 10 Boise State Broncos had a quite simple state of affairs on Friday evening within the Mountain West championship recreation towards No. 20 UNLV.
Win and you might be in.
Simply deal with enterprise, at dwelling, and punch your ticket to the 2024 Faculty Soccer Playoff.
The Broncos did precisely that with a 21-7 win that not solely provides them the convention title, may very seemingly give them a bye week into the quarterfinals. They may get the bye week if they’re one of many 4 highest-ranked convention champions when the 12-team discipline is revealed on Sunday. Provided that they entered Friday’s recreation already in that place, it appears seemingly they are going to stay there.
Boise State has principally dominated its opponents this season, with 9 of its 12 wins coming by double-digits, together with Friday’s convention title win over UNLV.
The massive criticism of Boise State’s resume would be the high quality of competitors and the actual fact Friday’s recreation is its solely win over a ranked opponent.
The counter to that’s that its solely different recreation towards a ranked workforce was a Week 2 recreation at Oregon. Whereas Boise State did lose on the highway, it was solely a three-point recreation and got here right down to Oregon profitable on a discipline objective as time expired.
Provided that Oregon is the top-ranked workforce within the nation (and has been for a lot of the season) and that it was a real highway recreation in one of many nation’s hardest stadiums, that needs to be thought-about a powerful exhibiting.
The Broncos are being carried into the playoffs by celebrity working again — and Heisman hopeful — Ashton Jeanty who had one other dominant efficiency on Friday.
He completed the sport with 209 yards on 32 carries, alongside along with his twenty ninth whole landing of the season on a spectacular 75-yard run simply earlier than halftime. It’s his sixth 200-yard speeding recreation of the season.
That efficiency provides him 2,497 speeding yards on the season, and leaves him simply 131 yards behind Barry Sanders for the single-season report in faculty soccer historical past. Jeanty will get not less than yet another recreation to attempt to prime that.
Whereas he may have completed so in additional video games than Sanders performed, it mustn’t take away from the brilliance of his season.
