Boise State needs to be getting a first-round bye within the College Football Playoff.
The No. 10 Broncos put No. 20 UNLV away within the first half on the way in which to a 21-7 win within the Mountain West Conference championship recreation on Friday night time. The win was fittingly sealed on the finish of the second quarter with a 75-yard run by Heisman contender Ashton Jeanty.
Jeanty completed the sport with 209 speeding yards and had Boise State followers chanting his title within the second half.
Jeanty’s complete brings him to 2,497 yards on the season as he handed former USC operating again Marcus Allen for the fourth-most speeding yards in a single season.
The 75-yard TD run earlier than halftime was Boise State’s second TD within the ultimate three minutes of the second quarter. Maddux Madsen prolonged the Boise State result in 14-0 with 2:40 to go within the second quarter with a implausible run on a QB draw.
UNLV received 4 yards on three performs on its ensuing possession earlier than Jeanty broke the sport open.
The Rebels’ offense merely couldn’t get something going. And when it had a scoring probability, it didn’t capitalize. UNLV missed a discipline objective within the first half, and Kylin James broke off an 86-yard run within the third quarter to arrange UNLV for a certain TD. But Seyi Oladipo ran James down from behind to forestall the landing and UNLV couldn’t punch the ball into the tip zone as a fourth-down go sailed incomplete.
After lastly scoring within the fourth quarter, UNLV had an opportunity to chop the result in seven earlier than the 2-minute warning. But the Rebels went backward after getting one other goal-to-go scenario and once more turned the ball over on downs.
The nature of the win nearly ensures that Boise State will keep forward of the winner of Saturday’s Big 12 title recreation in Sunday’s College Football Playoff rankings. That means Boise State needs to be the No. 4 seed within the playoff bracket and will even be as excessive as No. 3 if Clemson beats SMU within the ACC championship recreation.
The playoff format ensures spots to the highest 5 convention champions within the rankings and the highest 4 seeds are reserved for the highest 4 convention champions. There weren’t many individuals who would have wager earlier than the season {that a} non-power convention champion can be getting one of many first-round byes, but it surely’s laborious to argue towards Boise State’s worthiness except you’re affiliated with the Big 12.
Boise State’s solely lack of the season got here in Week 2 to Oregon, the one undefeated crew remaining in school soccer. The Broncos misplaced that recreation 37-34 because the Ducks wanted a brief discipline objective as time expired to win the sport.
Since then, Boise State received six video games by three scores or extra and Friday night time’s win over UNLV was the Broncos’ second over the Rebels. Boise State received 29-24 in Las Vegas in October.
UNLV, in the meantime, is left to go to a non-playoff bowl regardless of the crew’s second 10-win season in program historical past and its first since 1984. The Rebels could possibly be headed to the LA Bowl to go to back-to-back bowl video games for the primary time ever.
