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BSU clobbers Idaho
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Saturday afternoon an age-old rivalry on the gridiron was brought back to life in Idaho. For two quarters of play in Moscow, nine years of history between the Boise State Broncos and the Idaho Vandals was almost erased.
The fans who bleed black and gold for life believed a Vandal win was possible and the players performed as if they really could add another win to their column. Going into halftime, the Vandals only trailed by seven points.
But as everyone knows, history has a way of repeating itself.
As the numbered lights on the scoreboard flickered to life to start the third quarter, so did the Broncos. For the remaining 30 minutes of the play, BSU poured on the points and showed why they are the No. 9 team in the country winning convincingly 45-10.
“It’s a rivalry game,” Broncos cornerback Kyle Wilson said. “You’ve got to love it. To be honest, I haven’t felt like that for a long time. I felt everyone had the fire lit under ’em. The stakes just raised by all the antics at the beginning of the game. It was amazing. This is what we play for.”
The first half of play was a slur of head turning and jaw dropping plays that started with a 81-yard pass play from Idaho quarterback Nathan Enderie to receiver Daniel Hardy, that resulted in a quick seven points just 24 seconds into the first quarter.
“Well those thing happen,” head coach Chris Petersen said. “I mean we were there, we just didn’t wrap up, the guy made a nice play, playing through the whistle and again another learning lesson for us.”
BSU was able to respond back midway through the first off a 17-yard run by sophomore running back Jeremy Avery to even the score.
They added seven more points about three minutes later when junior Kyle Wilson zig zagged his way through traffic for a 79-yard punt return to make the score 14-7 in favor of BSU.
“It [was] just a tight game, I felt I needed to do something and I went out there, saw a couple blocks, made a couple people miss and just instincts took over,” Wilson said.
The second quarter was highlighted by two missed field goals from a normally consistent Kyle Brotzman, which allowed the Vandals to gain a little momentum and add a field goal of their own to the mix to put them right back in the game.
However, after halftime it was all blue and orange. BSU scored 28 unanswered points and never looked back.
“Nobody panicked,’’ Petersen said. “We are a second-half team, and that’s the most important half. [We] finally got the run game going a bit, Ellis makes a big play … and we kind of build some momentum and go.”
The highlight of the game and for BSU was finally being able to really get their running attack going. On the game, BSU had 315 rushing yards, which was highlighted by Avery’s 156 yards and two-touchdown performance.
“We’ve trying to get that run game going all year,” Petersen said. Once he [Avery] gets to the second level he’s a slippery guy and fast too.”
Avery also got into the Bronco record book for yards per carry with 14.2.
“That’s good, I’m in the books,” Avery said.
The Broncos will need to utilize their running game next week when they travel to Reno, Nev. to take on the Wolf Pack.
The game is scheduled to start this Saturday at 2 p.m.
MARY ALBL
Sports Editor
