Good morning! Take a look back at last week’s Senior Day dub ahead of the Broncos’ championship game on Friday.

What else is brewing in today’s edition, Bronco Nation?

🏈 A Mountain West Championship game preview
🏆️ Awards all around
🔷 And much, much more!

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📈 STOCK UP

🔼 The Big Game. In a game between the top-two preseason favorites in the Mountain West, No. 10 Boise State will go for its second straight Mountain West title when it hosts No. 19 UNLV in the 2024 Old Trapper Mountain West Football Championship at Albertsons Stadium on Friday, Dec. 6 at 6 p.m. The Broncos are hosting the conference championship game for the first time since 2022 and are 3-2 when playing on The Blue.

📚️ Read the full Mountain West Championship game preview
📊 Broncos crack the top 10 in CFP Rankings

🔼 All The Awards. Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty was named Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year for the second-consecutive year and Spencer Danielson was named MW Coach of the Year as the conference announced its 2024 All-MW selections and superlative awards. Jeanty was also a unanimous All-MW first team selection. Joining him on the first team were tight end Matt Lauter, offensive linemen Kage Casey and Ben Dooley, defensive linemen Ahmed Hassanein and Jayden Virgin-Morgan, and linebacker Marco Notarainni.

🏈 Jeanty has produced some of the greatest rushing numbers in FBS history, running for 2,288 yards and 28 touchdowns. His rushing yards total is the fifth-highest single-season total in FBS history and set the Boise State and Mountain West records.

🏆️ Jeanty recognized as Walter Camp Offensive Player of the Week
📚️ Read more about the Boise State award winners

🔼 Big Win. Boise State men’s basketball’s Alvaro Cardenas tied his career-high in assists and Tyson Degenhart had a perfect shooting night to score 21 points as Boise State notched its sixth win of the season by defeating Utah Tech, 87-64, on Tuesday night inside ExtraMile Arena. The victory was Boise State's 16th straight nonconference home win.

🔼 Four Honors. Boise State soccer’s Carly Cross, Genevieve Crenshaw and Morgan Padour were named to the United Soccer Coaches Women's All-Pacific Region First Team, while Avery McBride earned second-team honors. The four Bronco honorees add these accolades to a long list of awards such as Crenshaw’s All-MW First Team selection and Cross’ MW Player of the Year award.

🔼 One of the Best. Boise State offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Dirk Koetter has been named a semifinalist for the Broyles Award, an award presented annually to the nation's top assistant coach. The Broncos rank third in the nation with 40.6 points per game, the team's highest average since 2011, and have 3,042 rushing yards, the fifth-most in the country this season and most in the program's FBS era (since 1996).

🔼 Ranked Broncos. Boise State women’s tennis wrapped up the fall season with two national rankings with Bronco duo Maya Dutta and Zdena Safarova coming in at No. 63 while Safarova ranked No. 92 in the singles rankings.

🔼 Ranked Broncos II. Boise State men’s tennis also wrapped up the fall season with some national rankings as Bronco duos Carson Baker and Adam Duda and James Van Herzeele and John Chin rank No. 95 and No. 104, respectively. In singles, Jett Middleton came in at No. 11 to end the fall season.

🔼 Pro Broncos. The 2024 NFL season continues with another weekend of Boise State players competing, including two-way standout Scott Matlock and the Los Angeles Chargers facing defending the Super Bowl champions. Former teammates and All-MW offensive linemen Ezra Cleveland and John Ojuwku will meet in an AFC South battle while Avery Williams and Brett Rypien, who each earned MW Player of the Year honors twice, will meet for the first time since they were teammates on The Blue in 2018.

🤔 BLUE TURF TRIVIA

High-Powered Player. Today’s trivia question…can you name the three Boise State football players to have won Offensive Player of the Year by their conference?

Think you got it? Scroll to the bottom and find out!

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🗓 THE WEEK AHEAD

Wednesday, December 4
No scheduled events

Thursday, December 5
👟 Track & Field @ Silver State Invitational and Multi in Reno, Nev.

Friday, December 6
👟 Track & Field @ Silver State Invitational and Multi in Reno, Nev.
🏀 Women’s Basketball vs. Utah Tech @ 1 p.m. in Boise, Idaho | Tickets | MWN | Listen
🏈 Football vs. UNLV @ 6 p.m. in Boise, Idaho | Tickets | FOX | Live Stats

Saturday, December 7
👟 Track & Field @ Silver State Invitational and Multi in Reno, Nev.
🏀 Men’s Basketball vs. Washington State @ 2 p.m. in Boise, Idaho | Tickets | CBS | Listen

Sunday, December 8
🏀 Women’s Basketball vs. San Diego @ 2 p.m. in Boise, Idaho | Tickets | MWN | Listen

Monday, December 9
No scheduled events

Tuesday, December 10
No scheduled events

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Ashton Jeanty, Bart Hendricks and Kellen Moore!

The HEI2MAN candidate is the third Bronco to be named Offensive Player of the Year by his conference, joining quarterbacks Bart Hendricks (Big West, 1999-00) and Kellen Moore (WAC, 2009-10; MW, 2011).

🔷 Have a great Wednesday, Bronco Nation!