The Boise State football team enters Friday’s critical Mountain West showdown with No. 16 Fresno State as a home underdog — a position the Broncos never have experienced in a WAC or Mountain West conference game.
The last time the Broncos were home underdogs in a conference game, according to oddsshark.com’s database, was the 1999 Big West matchup with Nevada, just as the Broncos were starting to emerge as one of the top programs outside of the power conferences. Nevada was favored by 2 points but Boise State won 52-17 in the Oct. 23, 1999, game.