The No. 10 Boise State Broncos had a quite simple state of affairs on Friday night time within the Mountain West championship recreation in opposition to No. 20 UNLV.
Win and you might be in.
Simply deal with enterprise, at house, and punch your ticket to the 2024 School Soccer Playoff.
The Broncos did precisely that with a 21-7 win that not solely provides them the convention title, might very seemingly give them a bye week into the quarterfinals. They’ll get the bye week if they’re one of many 4 highest-ranked convention champions when the 12-team area 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 large 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 in opposition to a ranked group was a Week 2 recreation at Oregon. Whereas Boise State did lose on the street, it was solely a three-point recreation and got here right down to Oregon successful on a area aim as time expired.
Provided that Oregon is the top-ranked group within the nation (and has been for many of the season) and that it was a real street recreation in one of many nation’s hardest stadiums, that ought to be thought of a formidable exhibiting.
The Broncos are being carried into the playoffs by famous person operating 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 complete landing of the season on a spectacular 75-yard run simply earlier than halftime. It’s his sixth 200-yard dashing recreation of the season.
That efficiency provides him 2,497 dashing yards on the season, and leaves him simply 131 yards behind Barry Sanders for the single-season file in school soccer historical past. Jeanty will get at the very least another recreation to try to high that.
Whereas he could have finished so in additional video games than Sanders performed, it shouldn’t take away from the brilliance of his season.
