Boise State president Bob Kustra got the phone call he was desperately hoping for yesterday. The call was from Big West commissioner Dennis Farrell about the possibility of Boise State joining the Big West Conference. It’s far from a done deal, but Farrell said the Big West is following up the call by sending the Broncos an assessment tool the conference hands out to any potential new members.

The move comes as a surprise after the league turned down Boise State’s request this past December. That attempt was prompted by the Broncos accepting an invite to the Big East for football-only and needing to find a home for its other sports programs. Boise State ended up back in the Western Athletic Conference, whose survival is now in serious jeopardy after being shredded by the latest round of conference expansion.

"We're looking at this from a broad landscape right now," Farrell told ESPN.

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Over at SB Nation is relegation week for college football, and today's latest post has separated all of college football down to the NAIA level. There are seven tiers set up with teams currently in the conference they are, so Boise State and San Diego State are still in the Mountain West, and any independents such as BYU or Notre Dame are put into a league.

It is set up to be a geographical fit and due to the size of the info the tiers and map will be after the jump.

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Now that recruiting for the 2012 class is over and that the early entrants for the NBA Draft is complete the odds for who will cut down the nets in 2013 have been released by Bovada, and UNLV comes in at 40/1 to win the title.

Here are the early odds:

Indiana 7/1
Louisville 8/1
Kentucky 10/1
Duke 15/1
Florida 15/1
North Carolina 15/1
UCLA 15/1
Kansas 18/1
Michigan 20/1
North Carolina State 20/1
Ohio State 20/1
Syracuse 20/1
Michigan State 22/1
Arizona 25/1
Baylor 25/1
Memphis 25/1
Creighton 30/1
St. John's 30/1
Missouri 35/1
Texas 35/1
Florida State 40/1
Georgetown 40/1
Pittsburgh 40/1
Stanford 40/1
UNLV 40/1

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Bronco Nation is looking for one big answer going forward. No, not which conference will it play in next year, nor even if the world will survive beyond the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21st. Those would be too easy to answer. The bigger question on nearly every Bronco fan’s mind is which one of the four quarterbacks on the Broncos roster will be selected to fill record setting quarterback Kellen Moore’s shoes?

Not helping the discussion is that following last month’s Spring Game, Broncos head coach Chris Petersen was non-committal. They all did well, he said, and all are showing signs of improvement, thus leaving the clear impression that the QB race for the starting position is far from over. He’s just being picky.

Luckily for Petersen, he has a stable full of good, dual-threat quarterbacks to pick from.

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The Insight Bowl is getting a new name due to their sponsorship with Insight Enterprises ending. So here's your chance to have a little fun with a new name and corresponding sponsorship. I've given a few examples here so you can get started:

The Big Mack Bowl sponsored by Texas HC Mack Brown (note, the Big XII rep will always be Texas)

The Sedona Bowl sponsored by the city of Sedona

The Pirate Bowl sponsored by Mike Leach and Disney

The Animal Bowl sponsored by PetSmart

The Fly Whenever You Want bowl sponsored by US Airways (note, this bowl will be played in the US Airways center: Arena Football Rules)

The Peter Piper Pizza Bowl (special halftime guest Yanni)

The Sky Mall Bowl (this would have my favorite gift sets for the players)

The Coldstone Bowl (note: instead of using footballs, players must play with football ice cream cakes)

Let's see how many wacky and clever names come up...the winner will get bragging rights (and if you like you can submit your idea to that sponsor and see if they take you seriously!).

Cleverness and silliness are encouraged, however if you have a serious bowl name/sponsor throw it in!