Nothing has been normal or easy this year, and many “new” teams have risen up this season through combinations of luck and skill. The perennial also-ran Spartans are one of those teams and to say they haven’t been this good in a long time isn’t an exaggeration...in all likelihood, you weren’t born the last time the Spartans were this good and the 25th ranked squad will be trying to dethrone perennially good Boise State for that shiny trophy. All things considered, that’s a pretty darn good storyline. Heck, maybe even the type of storyline you’d watch on network TV.