Boise Condition wins Mountain West championship as first expanded CFP bracket starts to shoot circumstance


Boise Condition is headed to the College Football Playoff

The Broncos captured the Mountain West Convention identify Friday night time and earned their spot in the sport’s first 12-team playoff with a 21-7 victory over UNLV within the Mountain West championship recreation. 

Big name working again Ashton Jeanty ran for 209 yards and a landing in his 6th 200-plus-yard recreation this season.

With 2,497 speeding yards for the season, Jeanty is now fourth at the FBS all-time single-season speeding checklist in the back of handiest Barry Sanders (2,628 yards in 1988), Melvin Gordon (2,587 in 2014) and UCF’s Kevin Smith (2,567 in 2007). Jeanty additionally finishes the familiar season with 29 speeding touchdowns.

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Working again Ashton Jeanty of the Boise Condition Broncos busts via an entire within the series right through the primary part of the Mountain West Championship in opposition to the UNLV Rebels at Albertsons Stadium on December 06, 2024 in Boise, Idaho. (Loren Orr/Getty Photographs)

Jeanty gave Boise Condition a tone-setting play games with a 75-yard landing run in the second one quarter, his twelfth elevate of fifty or extra yards this season. 

Boise Condition will cling directly to or beef up on its Incorrect. 10 score within the ultimate Faculty Soccer Playoff scores that pop out Sunday. That will virtually unquestionably manufacture the Broncos negative worse than the fourth-best convention titlist and in series for a first-round bye.

The Fat 12 identify recreation on Saturday pits Incorrect. 15 Arizona Condition in opposition to Incorrect. 16 Iowa Condition.

The winner is within the playoff. However the one sensible course left for both crew to earn a bye (and the too much $4 million that includes it) can be to mix that win — ideally a resounding one — with a loss through the Atlantic Coast Convention chief, Incorrect. 8 SMU, which performs Incorrect. 17 Clemson.

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Offensive lineman Mathyus Su’a of the UNLV Rebels and outdoor linebacker Jayden Virgin-Morgan #5 of the Boise Condition Broncos fight alongside the series of scrimmage right through the primary part of the Mountain West Championship at Albertsons Stadium on December 06, 2024 in Boise, Idaho. (Loren Orr/Getty Photographs)

The Fat 12 commissioner and Iowa Condition’s athletic director are amongst the ones already crying foul. By way of the hour the identify video games are over and the brackets are clear, they received’t be the one ones.

Now the rustic will flip its consideration to the alternative convention championship video games as the primary playoff image of the expanded playoff year will shake out. 

Oregon, top-ranked and the one undefeated crew within the nation, is in, too. However Saturday’s recreation in opposition to Incorrect. 3 Penn Condition is for the Fat Ten identify and a first-round bye.

If Penn Condition prevails, after there’s a controversy that the Nittany Lions may finally end up with that zenith seed.

Within the SEC, it’s Incorrect. 2 Texas vs. Incorrect. 5 Georgia. Unfortunately, Bevo may not be within the construction. The winner will get a bye and a championship. The loser must nonetheless be in, but when that loser is Georgia, the Dawgs might be at the highway for the primary around.

Relying on how the brackets circumstance up, those groups may face each and every alternative thrice this season.

Barring one thing totally sudden, it’s going to shoot both a loss through SMU, a transformation of center from the choice committee or each to knock Alabama out of the bracket. If the Wave manufacture it, the Southeastern Convention may have 4 groups within the playoff.

Because the variety committee positioned the Red Wave at Incorrect. 11 closing past, one spot forward of Miami, it appears very just like the Wave will keep forward of the Hurricanes of the Atlantic Coast Convention. The way in which closing past’s score shook out, that supposed Alabama was once in and Miami was once out.

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Ashton Jeanty #2 of the Boise Condition Broncos fires up the public previous to the beginning of the Mountain West Championship between the Boise Condition Broncos and the UNLV Rebels at Albertsons Stadium on December 06, 2024 in Boise, Idaho.  (Loren Orr/Getty Photographs)

A handful of groups aren’t enjoying this weekend and don’t have a lot to fret about. Incorrect. 4 Notre Dame must get a house recreation. 

Incorrect. 9 Indiana, considered one of 4 Fat Ten groups projected to manufacture the playoff, it will likely be at the highway.

In between, there may be the subject of Incorrect. 6 Ohio Condition and Incorrect. 7 Tennessee. Extreme past’s projected bracket paired the 10-2 groups in a first-round recreation to be performed on the Horseshoe in Columbus, Ohio.

The Related Press contributed to this document. 

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