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Mountaintop View 1-7-21 Share this story It feels like Boise State football’s head coaching search has been going on for a month. Close! It’s been a little more than two weeks. Football Scoop is reporting that Montana State head coach Jeff Choate might be the leading candidate. I’ll refrain from saying anymore. Congrats, Khalil and Darius ZACH KAPONO WILSON (@zachkapono) TALANOA HUFANGA (@HufangaTalanoa) Not sure if there was any doubt, but Carson Strong is coming back next season As our...

College roundup: UMaine women continue strong start by routing Hartford The Black Bears are 4-0 for the first time in 34 years after an 85-57 victory in their America East opener. Staff and news service report Share WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — Blanca Millan scored 33 points, and the Maine women’s basketball team improved to 4-0 for the first time since 1986 as the Black Bears rolled to an 85-57 victory over Hartford in their America East conference opener Tuesday afternoon. The Black Bears, wh...

Nevada earns 38-27 victory over Tulane in Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Share this story For the first time in the 21st century, the Nevada Wolf Pack will exit Boise, Idaho victorious. Nevada earned a 38-27 victory over the Tulane Green Wave in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl at Albertsons Stadium on Tuesday. It snapped a string of 12 consecutive losses on the blue turf, which dates back to 1997. It is now 3-21 all-time in Albertsons Stadium. In celebration, Nevada head coach Jay Norvell was showere...

Strong, Lee, Taua pace Nevada in Potato Bowl win over Tulane By JASON CHATRAWDecember 23, 2020 GMT BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Nevada coach Jay Norvell had plenty of reasons to be emotional as he challenged his team before it took the field in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. And his players responded. Carson Strong threw for 271 yards and five touchdowns, Devonte Lee and Toa Taua each rushed for over 100 yards, and Nevada’s defense recorded eight sacks for the first time in 17 years as the Wolf Pack ...

Nevada in Potato Bowl Win Over Tulane BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Carson Strong threw for 271 yards and five touchdowns, Devonte Lee and Toa Taua each rushed for over 100 yards, and Nevada beat Tulane 38-27 in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on Tuesday. Nevada finished 2020 the same way it started the year — by playing in the same bowl game, which the Wolfpack lost 30-21 to Ohio on Jan. 3. This year’s Potato Bowl allowed Nevada to end with a win after losing its regular-season finale to San Jose Sta...

Tulane ends 2020 season with loss to Nevada in Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Tulane finishes their 2020 season in 6-6. (Source: Parker Waters) By Garland Gillen | December 23, 2020 at 9:23 AM CST - Updated December 23 at 4:24 PM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Tulane (6-6) fell to Nevada, 38-27, in the 2020 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. The postseason matchup marked Tulane’s third consecutive and 14th bowl appearance in program history. Freshman quarterback, Michael Pratt, completed a pair of passing touc...

Strong throws five TDs, Nevada tops Tulane in 2020 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl The Wolf Pack stymied the Green Wave’s hopes of winning a third straight bowl game in Boise. Share this story Photo by Loren Orr/Getty Images For the third consecutive year, Willie Fritz’s Tulane team found themselves in a bowl game to wrap up their season. This bowl game, though, was a unique opportunity for the team. The Green Wave traveled all the way up from New Orleans to take the spot of what would normally b...

2020/12/23 08:18 Nevada defensive back EJ Muhammad (4) reaches for the ball after it was tipped in to the air on a pass by Tulane during the first half of the Idaho Po... Nevada defensive back EJ Muhammad (4) reaches for the ball after it was tipped in to the air on a pass by Tulane during the first half of the Idaho Potato Bowl NCAA college football game, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, in Boise, Idaho. Nevada intercepted the ball on the play. (AP Photo/Steve Conner) ...

Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Alright, so Camerun Peoples rushed for 317 yards and five touchdowns on the totally, predictably porous North Texas Mean Green, and Appalachian St. Mountaineers cruised to a 56-28 win in the Myrtle Beach Bowl over hapless under .500 competition. Moving on. We’re rewarded with TWO bowl games today, and...guys, these should be fun. Lots of “Who knows?” in the mid-afternoon opener, with ALL THE POINTS from Boca Raton. I’m f...

Dec 22, 2020 Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football this bowl season, where some cases of COVID-19 at … AND NOW, THE FITTINGLY WEIRD FINAL CHAPTER Decades from now, the children will not believe their ears when we try to explain what the 2020 college football bowl season was like. “The Rose Bowl was played in Texas, kids. So was the New Mexico Bowl. California had no bowls at all. … A bunch of bowls were canceled, including the hardy old Sun Bowl. Times wer...