1995 Boise State Broncos football | |
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Conference | Big Sky Conference |
Ranking | |
Sports Network | No. 21 |
Record | 7–4 (4–3 Big Sky) |
Head coach |
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Defensive coordinator | Tom Mason (3rd season) |
Home stadium | Bronco Stadium |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 8 Montana $^ | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 13 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 21 Boise State | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 22 Northern Arizona | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 17 Idaho ^ | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weber State | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Idaho State | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Montana State | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eastern Washington | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1995 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State University in the 1995 NCAA Division I-AA football season, their last season in Division I-AA. The Broncos competed in the Big Sky Conference and played their home games on campus at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho. Led by third-year head coach Pokey Allen, Boise State finished the season 7–4 overall and 4–3 in conference, ranked 21st in the final regular season poll. [1]
This was Boise State's final season as a member of the Big Sky and Division I-AA; they began play in Division I-A in the Big West Conference in 1996.
Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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September 9 | at Utah State * | No. 5 | W 38–14 | 20,909 | [2] | ||
September 16 | Sam Houston State * | No. 3 | W 38–14 | 23,377 | [3] | ||
September 23 | 1:05 pm | at No. 6 Montana | No. 3 | L 28–54 | 18,504 | [4] [5] | |
September 30 | Northwestern State * | No. 11 |
| L 17–22 | 22,364 | [6] | |
October 7 | No. 18 Northern Arizona | No. 19 |
| L 13–32 | 21,683 | [7] | |
October 14 | at Weber State | W 40–14 | 11,428 | [8] | |||
October 21 | No. 22 Idaho State ![]() |
| W 27–17 | 23,621 | [9] | ||
October 28 | No. 6 Portland State * | No. 25 |
| W 49–14 | 18,128 | [10] | |
November 4 | 1:05 pm | Eastern Washington | No. 24 |
| W 63–44 | 18,051 | [11] [12] |
November 11 | Montana State | No. 23 |
| W 35–7 | 23,327 | [13] | |
November 18 | 4:05 pm | at No. 25 Idaho | No. 16 | L 13–33 | 16,295 | [14] [15] [16] [17] | |
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Coming off a successful previous season of 13–2 and the runner-up in the national championship, [20] BSU was ranked eighth in the preseason I-AA poll, [21] and climbed to third after an opening victory at Division I-A Utah State. [2] [22] A three-game losing streak dropped them out of the poll by mid-season, [23] after wide-margin losses to Montana and Northern Arizona. [4] [7]
After five consecutive wins, the Broncos climbed back to #16 prior to the regular season finale at rival Idaho, [24] whom they defeated the previous year in Boise to break a twelve-game losing streak in the series. [25] With a likely playoff berth on the line; [14] [26] BSU lost by twenty in the Kibbie Dome to end their season in a four-way tied for second place. [15] [16] [17] Surging Idaho (6–4) was selected for the final at-large berth for the postseason, [27] [28] [29] but was matched against top-ranked McNeese State in southwest Louisiana and made a quick exit. [30] [31] [32]
Allen had been diagnosed in December 1994 with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of muscle cancer. [33] [34] The tumor in his upper right arm was removed in March and he underwent extensive chemotherapy and a stem-cell transplant in July at the Fred Hutchinson Center in Seattle. [35] He returned to coach the Broncos while going through treatment, and the cancer was declared in remission in December 1995, but the doctors warned of likely recurrence.