Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff to host the Mountain West Championship pregame show

Fox’s college football pregame show is coming to Boise.

The Big Noon Kickoff crew will travel to Idaho next week for a special Mountain West Championship pregame show, the conference announced Saturday morning. The pregame show begins at 5 p.m. mountain time on Friday with game coverage starting at 6pm on Fox.

Former college football stars Mark Ingram II, Matt Leinart and Brady Quinn sit next to national championship coach Urban Meyer on the Big Noon Kickoff set. The program is hosted by Rob Stone.

No. 11 Boise State (11-1) earned the right to host the Mountain West Championship by going 7-0 in conference play. The Broncos will most likely face the no. 22 UNLV (9-2), which can punch its ticket to the title game by defeating Nevada (3-9) on Saturday night.

“It’s a championship game,” Boise State head coach Spencer Danielson said after Friday’s 34-18 win over Oregon State. “Everything we’ve done to this point is to get here. And now, whoever we play, it’s 60 minutes of ‘Who wants it more?’ It’s all chips on the table for both sides.”

The Rebels and Broncos also met in last year’s Mountain West Championship, with Boise State earning a 44-20 victory at Allegiant Stadium. The Broncos have never won back-to-back Mountain West titles.

In Friday’s regular season finale against Oregon State, Heisman Trophy candidate Ashton Jeanty carried a career-high 37 times for 226 yards and a touchdown. It was the 10th straight win for the Broncos.

“It’s hard to win,” Danielson said. “It’s something where we want to celebrate every single win and we want to learn from every single win. But it’s hard to win. You look across college football, especially in the month of November, crazy things happen.

“Now when you go into a championship game, both sides know what it is. … And we’ve been in several situations during my time here where we’ve won a championship and the next year we’ve come up short . We have to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

A win over UNLV in the Mountain West Championship would likely secure a bye for the Broncos in the first round of the College Football Playoff. The next set of rankings will be released at 17.00 mountain time Tuesday.

“We have a group of 21 seniors that have been through so much,” Danielson said. “COVID, multiple head coaches. They went out there and played for each other today. They played for our seniors because they’re going to sacrifice for each other. That’s love. … Here we define love as action and sacrifice. That’s what love is and that’s what this team shows every single day.”

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