LITTLE ROCK — Broncos’ BCS hope reined in
Nevada’s 34-31 overtime victory over Boise State on Friday night was the best game of the 2010 college football season, according to Pete Fiutak of CollegeFootball-News.com.
“Kyle Brotzman didn’t lose the BCS dream for the Broncos,” Fiutak wrote. “That was gone once Nevada quarterback Colin Kaepernick took over.
“After the game got tight, Boise State’s season was effectively over. The national title was out of the mix once Rishard Matthews ran for a 44-yard touchdown early in the fourth quarter to pull the Wolf Pack within three.
“Passing TCU and getting a BCS bid was on life support after Matthews’ 7-yard catch in the final seconds of regulation to tie it up. The missed kicks from the normally automatic Brotzman just made it official.
“Boise State will still begood, but this was the chance at something truly special. One bad fourth quarter, two shanked kicks, and it’s all gone.” Add Wolf Pack
So who is the happiest member of the Nevada Wolf Pack today?
That would have to be safety Doyle Miller.
Miller is the player who inexplicably allowed Boise State wide receiver Titus Young to get behind him with just a few seconds left on the regulation clock.
“[Miller] was destined to be a pariah, the face of yet another Nevada loss to the Broncos,” wrote Richard Cirminiello of CollegeFootballNews.com. “Yet the kid got a reprieve from Kyle Brotzman, who missed a chip-shot field-goal attempt that would have prevented this thriller from ever getting to overtime.
“Thanks to the suddenly erratic place-kicker, Miller no longer has to worry about being an infamous footnote in history since the Kellen Moore-to-Young hook-up hadabsolutely no relevance on the final outcome.”
No argument here
“Many football fans think teams like Boise State and Nevada and TCU should not be eligible for the national championship because they play in weak conferences with consequently weaker schedules,” wrote Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.
com. “But by that token no team should be Super Bowl eligible coming out of the NFC West.” Future pay day
Brad Dickson in the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald, on reports that the Yankees and Derek Jeter are $50 million apart in talks to bring him back next season: “Ironically, so are Auburn and Cam Newton.” Camera shy
Carl Pelini, Nebraska’s defensive coordinator, apologized for grabbing a photographer’s camera after the Cornhuskers’ 9-6 loss at Texas A&M last week.
“On the bright side,” wrote Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times, “Tiger Woods just found his backup caddie.”Quote of the day “Everybody tells me I love Little Rock, and I do.” Arkansas receiver Cobi Hamilton on playing at War Memorial Stadium
Sports, Pages 28 on 11/28/2010