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2009 Boise State Broncos football team
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The 2009 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Broncos played their games at Bronco Stadium, most famous for its blue artificial turf surface. They completed the season undefeated, their second consecutive unbeaten regular season and fourth in the last six years. The Broncos finished ranked #4 in the Associated Press and USA Today coaches poll for their highest ranking in history to finish a season. Head Coach Chris Petersen was named the Paul Bear Bryant National Coach of the Year, Petersen is the first two-time winner of the award since it was renamed in 1986. The Broncos were one of two teams to finish the 2008 regular season with an undefeated record and win their sixth WAC Championship in seven years. However, The Broncos were unable to finish the season undefeated after losing 17–16 to #11 TCU in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. The Broncos entered the 2009 season as one of the youngest college teams in the nation, with only five seniors on their roster, no other team had fewer than nine. Two Broncos were listed on scout. coms list of the 100 best returning players in the nation, senior defensive back Kyle Wilson at #54 and sophomore quarterback Kellen Moore at #37. Kyle Wilson - Playboy, nationalchamps. net 2nd team, CBSSports. com, the Broncos were the highest rated non BCS conference school. On August 22 Boise State received 659 points to rank 14th in the Associated Press preseason poll, just as they were in the USA Today poll, the Broncos were the highest rated non BCS conference school. The 14th ranking was the highest preseason ranking in school history, for the second consecutive year Bronco Stadium received an expansion, this time in the south endzone temporary bleachers. Rankings reflect the Coaches poll until the week of the Hawaii game, after which the BCS poll was used, last meeting in 2008, a 37–32 Broncos win in Eugene. On August 31, this game was named the Allstate Sugar Bowl Manning Award Matchup of the Week for the matchup of Boise State QB Kellen Moore vs Oregon QB Jeremiah Masoli. The Bronco offense scored on a 10-yard TD pass from Kellen Moore to Austin Pettis in the second quarter, the Broncos set a school record with 59 rushing attempts. Kellen Moore finished 19/29 for 197 and 1 TD, Austin Pettis had 6 catches for 68 yards and the TD. The Broncos out gained the Ducks 351 to 152, the 34,127 in attendance set a new Bronco Stadium record. The Broncos moved up 2 spots in the AP poll to #12 and 5 spots in the Coaches poll to #11. J
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2009 TCU Horned Frogs football team
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The 2009 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Gary Patterson, the Frogs played their home games at Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth. The Horned Frogs finished the season 12–1 and won the Mountain West Conference title, in the Fiesta Bowl, TCU was upset by underdog Boise State, 17–10
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Western Athletic Conference
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The Western Athletic Conference is an American collegiate athletic conference formed on July 27,1962 and affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I. The WAC thus became the first Division I conference to drop football since the Big West in 2000, the WAC then added mens soccer and became one of the NCAAs eleven Division I non-football conferences. The following institutions are the members of the WAC for the 2016–17 academic year. Notes With the elimination of football as a WAC-sponsored sport, New Mexico States football program has joined the Sun Belt as an associate member, in July 2015, UTPA merged with the University of Texas at Brownsville to create the new University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The University of Texas System stated in July 2014 that the UTPA athletics program will be converted into the program at UTRGV. On November 5,2014, UTRGVs new nickname of Vaqueros was announced, the founding date for UTRGV listed in this table reflects that of Edinburg College, the institution that eventually became UTPA. According to U. S. News & World Report, RNP means a ranking was calculated, unranked means not enough information was provided to make a calculation. Chicago States continued membership is problematic, considering the schools current strained financial situation and the needs of the athletic program, in April 2016, the University Budget Committee recommended that the Athletic Department. Study the benefits of being Division I or another division, championships title totals are through Spring 2016. The following 11 schools field programs in the WAC for sports not sponsored by their primary conferences. Notes Four schools became members in mens soccer in July 2013, the WAC announced on January 9,2013 that it would reinstate the sport. Because the conference dropped football, it was necessary to add a new mens team sport to maintain its Division I status, three of these schools have past WAC connections—former full members Air Force, UNLV and San Jose State. After the WAC announced it would add mens soccer, the conference gained an eighth soccer school for the 2013 season when UMKC, which already sponsored the sport, joined. In addition, Utah Valley added the sport for 2014, UT-Pan American added it for 2015, and Chicago State is slated to add it for 2016. Four schools became members in mens swimming and diving in July 2013, the WAC announced on May 16,2013 that it would reinstate the sport. Northern Colorado joined the WAC for baseball for the 2014 season, north Dakota also joined the WAC for baseball in the 2014 season, but dropped the sport after the 2016 season. Sacramento State was formerly a member of the WAC in baseball from 1992–93 to 1995–96. Championships title totals are through Fall 2014, north Dakota will leave the WAC entirely in July 2017 after dropping its remaining WAC sports of mens and womens swimming & diving
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Mountain West Conference
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The Mountain West Conference is one of the collegiate athletic conferences affiliated with the NCAA Division I FBS. The MW officially began operations in July 1999, geographically, the MW covers a broad expanse of the Western United States, with member schools located in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Craig Thompson has served as Commissioner of the MW since its founding in 1999, before forming the Mountain West Conference, seven of its eight charter members had been longtime members of the Western Athletic Conference. Half of these had been members of that conference from 1962. Overall, each school that has ever been either a full or football-only member of the MW spent at least three years in the WAC before joining the Mountain West, the 2013–14 academic year was the 15th anniversary season of the MW. The WAC, which had announced plans to expand beyond its then-current 10 members to at least 12. Ultimately, the WAC took in three of the four SWC schools left out of the Big 12 merger—Rice University, Southern Methodist University, however, the newly expanded WAC was soon wracked by tension between the established and new members. The final straw came in spring 1998, when BYU and Utah proposed a permanent split into two eight-team divisions, previously, the WACs 16 teams had been divided into four four-team quadrants, two of which rotated between the Mountain and Pacific Divisions every two years. A two-division setup would have forced some schools into an unnatural alignment because of the distribution of the conference. Air Force was the most strident opponent of this proposal, threatening to become an independent and they invited the WAC members New Mexico, San Diego State, and UNLV, to join them in what became the Mountain West Conference. The next move for the MW came in 2005, when the conference added TCU, on June 11,2010, Boise State University agreed to join the conference as its tenth member. On June 17,2010, Utah announced it would be leaving the Mountain West to join what would become the Pac-12 Conference, both schools accepted and would become the tenth and eleventh members of the league. BYU announced on August 31,2010 that it would leave the Mountain West Conference and go Independent in football, on November 29,2010, TCU announced all athletic teams would move to the Big East Conference effective in 2012. On December 10,2010, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa accepted a bid to become the 10th member of the conference for football only and these changes would leave the Mountain West Conference with 10 teams for the 2012 football season. However, two of the three schools that qualified are no longer with the conference, on October 14,2011, the Mountain West and C-USA announced a plan for a football only alliance. However, when the two discussed their plans with the NCAA, they were told that due to NCAA rules. As a result, the Mountain West and C-USA backed away from a full merger, in the end, this alliance never materialized due to both conferences soon adding new teams. On May 2,2012, San Jose State and Utah State agreed to join the conference for the 2013–14 academic year
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Chris Petersen
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Christopher Scott Chris Petersen is an American football coach who is currently the head coach at the University of Washington. Previously the head coach for eight seasons at Boise State University and he is the first two-time winner of the Paul Bear Bryant Award, which he won in 2006 and 2009. Petersen also won the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award in 2010, born and raised in Yuba City, California, Petersen played safety and quarterback for the Honkers at Yuba City High School. After graduation in 1983, he played quarterback for the Sacramento City College Panthers for two seasons, then transferred to non-scholarship UC Davis, then in Division II and he earned a bachelors degree in psychology in 1988 and a masters degree in education from UC Davis. Petersen began his career in 1987 as the head freshman coach at UC Davis under Hall of Fame coach Jim Sochor. In 1989 he became the coach for the varsity, departing in 1992 to become the quarterbacks coach at Pittsburgh. While at Pittsburgh, he coached QB Alex Van Pelt to a season where he threw for over 3,100 yards with 20 TD. He moved back west in 1993 to coach the quarterbacks at Portland State under Tim Walsh, Petersen moved over to Oregon in 1995 as the receivers coach, and spent six years as an assistant for the Ducks under head coach Mike Bellotti. In 1996, WR Cristin McLeMore topped 1,000 yards receiving, in 1997, WR Pat Johnson topped 1,000 yards. In 1998, WRs Damon Griffin and Tony Hartley both topped 1,000 yards on the year, in 2001, he was hired as the offensive coordinator at Boise State by newly promoted head coach Dan Hawkins. Hawkins left Boise State for Colorado after the 2005 season, sophomore tailback Ian Johnson said about the transition, We trusted him and knew he was going to take care of us. We knew he was a great person and he was going to recruit people just like himself. We waited for him to get here and he got in the perfect people. Petersen had served as coordinator at Boise State for five seasons and was twice nominated for the Broyles Award. In his first year as coach in 2006, Petersen led the Broncos to an undefeated regular season. He became the fourth head coach to lead a team to a BCS bowl game. Boise State was the undefeated team in Division I FBS for the 2006 season. The Broncos defeated Big 12 Champion Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl as only the second non-BCS conference school to play in a BCS bowl, Petersen stated, We were trying to get to it earlier, to tell you the truth
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Gary Patterson
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Gary Allen Patterson is an American football coach and former player. He is the football coach at Texas Christian University and the winningest coach in Horned Frogs history. His 2010 squad finished the season undefeated at 13–0 after a 21-19 Rose Bowl victory over the Wisconsin Badgers on New Years Day 2011, Patterson grew up in Rozel, Kansas and played football at Dodge City Community College and at Kansas State University. Patterson is married to Kelsey Patterson and he has three sons, Josh, Cade and Blake. He received his bachelors degree in education in 1983 from Kansas State University. While coaching at Tennessee Tech, he earned a degree in educational administration in 1984. Outside of coaching, Patterson plays guitar and performs at charity events around the Dallas-Fort Worth area during the off season, Patterson began his coaching career in 1982 at Kansas State University as an assistant to head coach Jim Dickey. He followed Franchione to Texas Christian University in 1998, serving as the defensive coordinator there, Patterson was a 2000 finalist for the Broyles Award, given annually to the nations top college football assistant coach. He was named coach at TCU prior to the Mobile Alabama Bowl in December 2000 after Franchione left to become the head coach at the University of Alabama. Patterson remains friends with former Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill from their time as coaches on Franchiones Pittsburg State staff, Kill served as the best man during Pattersons wedding to wife Kelsey in 2004. Patterson won his 110th game at TCU with a 56-0 rout of Grambling, passing Dutch Meyer as the winningest coach in program history and his teams have won at least 10 games in a season eight times. Only twice have they failed to reach a bowl, in 2004 and 2013, Pattersons Frogs have earned a spot in the year-end top 25 ten times, counting his partial season as head coach in 2000. In 2005, Patterson led the Frogs to the Mountain West Conference championship in their first season as a member. Over the course of the 2005 and 2006 seasons, the Frogs won four games against Big 12 Conference opponents. Patterson was named the 2005 Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year, in January 2007, Patterson turned down a head coaching offer from the University of Minnesota worth over $2 million per year. They ultimately fell by a score of 17–10 to undefeated #6 Boise State, the 2009 Horned Frogs became the second BCS Buster from the Mountain West Conference. For much of the season, they were a threat to crash the 2010 BCS National Championship Game. Earlier in the day, Cincinnati defeated Pitt on an epic fourth-quarter rally, cincinnatis win denied the Horned Frogs a shot at playing for the national championship, as it assured that two teams from Automatic Qualifying conferences would finish the regular season undefeated
