Game Recap: Boise State Routs Colorado State, 63-13

by bluesyourdaddy on Oct 16, 2011 6:44 AM PDT in Mountain West Football

In their Mountain West Conference debut the Boise State Broncos (6-0, 1-0) posted a decisive victory Saturday evening over the Colorado State Rams leaving the Rams 3-3 on the season and 1-1 in conference play. The victory came at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, packed with a sea of Colorado State fans wearing white shirts in support of cancer awareness. There was also a sizeable crowd of blue and orange clad fans who had made the 750 mile roadtrip from Boise.

The Colorado State offense sputtered at the start and was shut out in the first quarter, while their defense allowed the Broncos to put up three scores. During the second quarter, the Rams scored twice and one was with a half-back pass. TE Crockett Gilmore pulled in a lateral and tossed a 27-yarder to a wide open FB Joe Brown. Five minutes later, they scored again after Momo Thomas forced a Boise State fumble. WR Charles Lovett took the handoff and took off running, then pulled up and threw a pass that hit Matt Yemm in full stride for the touchdown. It was like they had taken a page taken out of the Boise State playbook.

But those two TD's would be the only times the Rams would see the Bronco's end zone. They went into half time down 35-13, but carrying the momentum. The second half was all Boise State who went to work and showed why they are ranked 5th in the nation. They racked up 742 yards of total offense and a turnover, while holding Colorado State at 231 total yards and forcing 5 turnovers.

Boise State QB Kellen Moore was 26 of 30 in the passing department, and threw for 338 yards and four TDs for the evening. TE Tyler Shoemaker caught nine of those passes for 180 yards and two touchdowns, and added a 36-yard run on a fake punt that led to another. WR Mitch Burroughs caught 5 passes for 64 yards. RB Doug Martin had a great night as well. He rushed 20 times for 200 yards and three TDs. All told, the Bronco runners racked up 393 yards on the ground.

"Tonight we were just really clicking," Shoemaker said after the game. "I think it sets the standard for us in the Mountain West."

The victory leaves Kellen Moore one win shy of Colt McCoy's NCAA record.

Next Saturday the Colorado State Rams travel to El Paso to take on the UTEP Miners while the Boise State Broncos will host the Air Force Falcons at home.

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Ugh

I was way off on calling them to beat the spread. Think it just proves that Boise is that much better then any team the MWC has had lately.

Of course a few more Rams went down, Mike Orakpo looked like he was hurt pretty good. To boot backup linebacker Aaron Davis went down also. Latu made an appearance but didn’t play much or any later in the game. The Rams were down, by my count, 3 starting DL, 2 starting LB’s, and a CB (unless Shaq Bell won a spot cause he was out there most the time.)

Bring back Fum's Song!

by bhsmarine on Oct 16, 2011 9:44 AM PDT reply actions

Doug Martin

Might actually be the best player on that team. He is much faster and quicker then I thought he would be. Allows Moore to make the quick decisions he needs to by keeping the defense very honest to the run. Also freshman safety Austin Grey might not have tackled Martin all game on all his long runs, Grey looked like a boy amongst men while Martin looked like Goliath.

Rams did get a sack on Moore which is actually a big deal, Moore has now been sacked twice all season.

Bring back Fum's Song!

by bhsmarine on Oct 16, 2011 9:47 AM PDT reply actions

For the Rams..

Thomas missed to many deep throws early on. That might be a weak point in the Boise St defense, or they just challenged Thomas to make the deep pass in the wind and he didn’t.

The run game on 1st down was actually very good, averaging around 5 yards on runs on 1st down. A couple sacks hurt and the missed deep throws killed the Rams. Also short yardage runs hurt a couple times.

The Rams just have to pull the positive out that they tied the Broncos in the 2nd and 4th quarters and prep to beat UTEP and UNLV.

Bring back Fum's Song!

by bhsmarine on Oct 16, 2011 9:54 AM PDT reply actions

Boise State's secondary has some issues...

Colorado State found some success exploiting those. Mad props for the Rams never giving up. They fought hard way after most teams just roll over and die. Good luck in your future games.

by Spyder Mayhem on Oct 16, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, I think Thomas is a lot better

quarterback than the one we saw Saturday night. And that is a shame. In my pregame writeup I thought they would have done better and at least beat the spread. The Rams are too fine a team to lay down and quit over this. They played hard all night against the 5th ranked team in the nation. Next week is a whole other game and they will man up for it.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.---Vince Lombardi

by bluesyourdaddy on Oct 16, 2011 3:54 PM PDT up reply actions