B.J. Rains is a four-time winner of the NSMA Idaho Sportswriter of the Year Award. He covered Boise State Athletics for the Idaho Press from 2013 to 2021 before leaving to create Bronco Nation News. Rains, who was a voter in the Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll from 2014-2021, also makes weekly appearances on KTIK 95.3 FM each Friday at 4 p.m.
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LAS VEGAS – The Boise State defense entered the 2024 season with a goal of sacking opposing quarterbacks at least 30 times. They’ve already surpassed that with at least six games still left. Using a variety of blitzes and pressures the Broncos have racked up 35 sacks through seven games – the most of any…
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LAS VEGAS – Ashton Jeanty didn’t have his best game of the season Friday night. Statistically speaking it was his worst. But that says all you need to know about Jeanty and the special season he’s putting together. Boise State’s Heisman Trophy candidate rushed for 128 yards on 33 carries and scored the game-winning touchdown…
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LAS VEGAS – Both teams can say it all they want, but we know better – and so do they. Friday night’s matchup between No. 17 Boise State and UNLV is not just an ordinary game. It’s not ‘the biggest game because it’s the next one’, as Spencer Danielson says weekly. It literally is the…
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Anyone wanting to sound smart at a pregame tailgate could point to a number of things – without knowing anything about either team – as keys that could decide the next game. Red zone, third downs, special teams and the turnover battle are a few obvious ones. But several of these areas likely will be…
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HONOLULU – The Boise State football team’s road game at Hawaii late Saturday night had all the makings of a trap game – and for three quarters, it looked exactly like it was. But the Broncos have a guy named Ashton Jeanty and a defense that had plenty to prove. Jeanty finished with 237 total…
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Kaonohi Kaniho has had this one circled for a while. “Oh about a year now – ever since we heard about it,” Kaniho said. The Kahuku, Hawai’i, native is back home to play in front of dozens of family and friends – including his two young kids – when Boise State plays at Hawaii at…
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