My TV certainly didn’t deserve the verbal abuse it got tonight.
When Holani fumbled, all I could think was that I’d hear that call of Aaron Taylor losing it for the rest of my life. The good guys won thankfully. Horrible, horrible game yes, but you can open your eyes now. I don’t want to talk a lot about the first half (or the second) but I’ll cover my bases. I also briefly considered putting in the videos of the bad plays to give you a little more breadth of coverage, but I don’t think you really came here for that anyway. (As a disclaimer I will include the aforementioned Holani fumble for it’s contextual relevance in my storytelling, otherwise we’re just gonna roll with the good stuff)
1st Half
The first half was objectively terrible. A fumble in the red zone, a missed field goal, and a turnover on downs lead to a very quick 10-0 lead for the pokes. Broncos started making plays to take over the stat sheet starting around the second, but points wouldn’t follow til much later.
While Jonah Buckets missed on an earlier attempt in the game, he hit this HUGE 47 yard nuke at the end of the half. More centered than hitting that center justification button on Microsoft Word.
3rd Quarter
A huge endzone INT by Rodney Robinson gave the Broncos the ball for the first time in the second half. And with that ball, we got this joy of a play. It was extremely stressful, but our baby Barry Sanders made it happen. Bonus commentary complimentary of Jeanty’s mom!
With 5 minutes left in the 3rd, Broncos finally take the lead. Taylen Green is absolutely the man and I love every bit of this play. He did a lot of these and it was pretty dang amazing.
4th Quarter
After giving up an 80 yard gash, the Broncos brought it right back to get this score. Clutch play from Bowens to put us back on top.
And now, the moment(s) you’ve all been waiting for:
*deep inhale*
OKAY so _yoming goes into 2 minute drill. They get a first down on the first throw but a couple incompletions puts them in 3rd down. Then BOOM. Interception Skinner.
Then there was a heinous amount of JINXING by the Bronco faithful declaring this game a victory. We had this fumble that looked like a time traveler came in to punch the ball out. It made zero sense. Holani has like 2 fumbles in the history of his life I’m pretty sure. Huge props to Taylen Green on the tackle here though. It probably should’ve been a TD but the _yoming guy decided to not follow his blockers, so thanks for that. Also: Taylen Green is fast. Pretty useful it would seem.
In it’s thrilling conclusion, the universe righted itself. A perplexing decision to throw here lead the _yoming interception. He ended with 3 completions to each team in his first career start. JL Skinner deserves anything you can throw at him. Special special talent.
Final Thoughts:
Stats for people who are into that:
I mostly want to forget the game, but I’m happy. Mountain Division champs? Check. Playing for all the marbles in two weeks at home? You betcha. Gooooooooodnight Bronco Nation, see y’all on Black Friday!
I respect Craig Bowels, but that was some of the worst end of game play calling. Lol. How did they not run the ball there?
Ssskkkkkiiiiiinnnnneeeeerrrrr!!!!!
Whatever. I’ll take it! Championship game on lock!!! Gutted that win out! Great job Broncos!!
Also, Jeanty not getting enough carries. That young man is a game changer. I would really like to see what he could do in a full time capacity. Holani is no slouch. But #2 is special.
Boise, the only plausible scenario I can come up with is Coach Bohl knew his guys couldn’t hang in OT, so he went for the win. However, I don’t get the long pass, given they struggled with their passing game all night. Short pass attempts? Sure! Run? Absolutely! Maybe he thought he’d catch the D off guard or out of position again.
Now that my heart rate and blood pressure are back to normal, I am able to write this response…
I guess so. If the shoe was on the other foot I would have expected the broncos to do the same there.
Really fun game though. Exciting ending. I think Holani is gonna be buying Skinners lunch for a while! Lol
Ok, that was bonkers. But such is the nature of college football—the good teams find ways to win amidst the craziness. There aren’t enough game balls to go around to give JL Skinner his due. And Taylen Green—running, throwing, and now tackling too!
This is far from the best Broncos team we’ve seen, but they have a whole lot of heart. Loving this season. And the future is looking bright. No one could have imagined this after UTEP.
Agree with AFFan. If it would have gone for a TD we’d all be saying Bohl is genius. What is it with the Broncos giving up the big plays? They nearly gave one up on _yoming’s first possession. They had a guy open, nobody within 15 yards, and overthrow him. This seems to be a part of BSU’s DNA. All the cold hands excuses can be made that will fill a commode but Bronco recievers have let balls drop or go through their hands all year long. And these were balls with both hands on them. Green is not tossing… Read more »
Whew!…too close for comfort. Broncos started out cold, brrr….We’ll take it . 8-2 baby! Top 25 maybe? Wyoming has a very good football team, good tackling, hard hitting and sound defense, very GOOD head coach. I can’t help but think if the pokes had their starting quarterback they would’ve won the game. Too bad for them, good for us. We need to play better if we hope to beat Fresno in MWC game. They have Jake Haener back, gulp…his last three games 335 ypg, 77% completions, 3td pg, etc, yowzah… He was out injured when we beat FSU earlier this… Read more »
College football!! What a ride! I think I was screaming for about five minutes straight at the end of the game there. Whew. I am glad it is over. Fresno makes me a little nervous. Typically when we lay them twice in a year we swap wins. History is not on our side. Hopefully we can design a way to contain Haener from picking us apart. Been a fun season though. Three more games to go!!
Agree on the Fresno State concerns. Our secondary may not be as good as we think they are. If we can’t get pressure on Haener then this will be a repeat of the BYU game. He will sit back and tear our zone D apart. Don’t think we are near top 25 material. But we are getting better every week. It’s going to be another year where we don’t realize our full potential. Imagine if we had made this change at the end of last year. We could very easily be looking at an undefeated squad right now. This is… Read more »
in the stats, there’s this “1 tackle” by TG
pretty important piece there
before the fumble and near-TD return, there was this kind of strange arrogant feeling… like when KM threw the long pass in the closing seconds of a game against Nevada
may i learn and remain grounded when i think i’m really doing great, and instead admit i’m really appreciative of a whole lot that has nothing to do with myself 🙂
Is it me or does Aaron Taylor not like Boise State? He was so thrilled when Holani fumbled. When Skinner sealed the game he didn’t say a word, his counter part was excited, but crickets from AT. It seems when BSU does anything good it’s because the other team messed up. Go Broncos!!
Aaron Taylor what a piece of work. He’s one of the reasons I turn of the sound. Obvious he is not a Boise fan or even objective. His immitating an endzone dance was a low point in the evening. Everytime he’s on he tries to make it all about him. The whole broadcast is two guys trying to talk over each other.