Well at least it wasn’t empty hype.
The Boise State football team — and senior quarterback Brett Rypien — showed Saturday night that the 2018 Broncos are serious contenders for a New Year’s Six bowl berth.
Boise State walloped Troy 56-20 — a Troy team that won 11 games last year and 10 games the season before. The Broncos, playing 2,256 miles from home in hot-and-humid Veterans Memorial Stadium, led by four touchdowns at halftime and five touchdowns in the third quarter.
And more important than the score was the way the Broncos got there. The passing game that was so inconsistent last year torched the Trojans in the first half, with Rypien throwing for 276 yards and four scores.