Bsu university of wyoming vs boise state
Ī few months before the teams' most recent meeting in Moscow in 2010, BSU president Bob Kustra expressed his displeasure with the behavior of Idaho fans. Since the 2010 game, no games have been scheduled and none are scheduled for the immediate future. Idaho has never won the trophy BSU has handily won all ten games played for it. Idaho joined the WAC in 2005 to return the rivalry to a late-season conference game. During the four seasons (2001–2004) as a non-conference game, it was played early in the season. Since its inception in 2001 for the 31st game, the trophy has yet to travel, as Boise State has won all ten games. In an effort to keep the intrastate rivalry strong, then Governor Dirk Kempthorne, a UI alumnus (1975) and former student body president, commissioned the Governor's Trophy, a traveling trophy awarded to the winning team. The Broncos moved up to the WAC, while Idaho joined the distant Sun Belt as a "football only" member (and remained in the Big West for all other sports). When the Big West dropped football following the 2000 season, Boise State and Idaho joined different conferences. Boise State has won 13 of 15 games over Idaho since both teams moved up to Division I-A (now FBS) in 1996.īoise State raises the Governor's Trophy again in 2010. The composite score for the most recent dozen games is 613–213, an average BSU victory margin of over 33 points per game, ranging from 14 to 58 points.
Idaho immediately followed with twelve straight wins 1982–1993, and won 15 of 17 before Boise State began its current 12-game winning streak in 1999, in which BSU has dominated the Vandals. BSU was 8–2–1 in the first 11 meetings, including five in a row 1977– 81. BSU became a university in 1974 and the Big Sky Conference moved to the new Division I-AA in 1978. It was Boise State's first-ever game against a University Division opponent. Upstart underdog Boise State College of Division II easily won the initial game over Division I Idaho in the season opener in 1971. The Boise State–Idaho rivalry has been dominated by streaks. The rivalry contests with Idaho in Boise from 1976 to 1994 were the conferences' highest-attended games for those seasons. īronco Stadium was expanded after the 1974 season and had the highest seating capacity in the Big Sky Conference. It was the first Big Sky home loss for the Broncos, who dropped to 7–4.
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Idaho returned an interception 75 yards for a touchdown and the Vandal freshman back-up quarterback ran for a touchdown with three minutes remaining to pull within a point another run on the two-point conversion gave Idaho the win and evened the series at a game each. The Vandals took a 7–0 halftime lead but Boise State responded in the third quarter with three touchdowns. The second game was played at the end of the 1972 season, again in Boise before 14,516 on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Idaho went 8–3 for the best record to date in school history Don Robbins' Vandals were Big Sky champions, won eight consecutive games (a school record), and had three players selected in the 1972 NFL Draft. Tony Knap's Broncos went 10–2 in 1971 and won the Camellia Bowl, but their two losses were both in conference. Idaho rented BSU's stadium and was the "home" team, but the "visiting" Broncos built a 28–7 lead at halftime and pulled off a convincing 42–14 upset before 16,123 for an instant rivalry.
The game was originally scheduled to be played in Moscow, but due to inclement weather in the spring, the Vandals' new stadium was a month behind schedule. The first meeting was 51 years ago in 1971, a season-opening night game at the year-old Bronco Stadium in Boise on September 11.