Boise had 17 points GIVEN to them on freak turnovers by the a lower ranked team and that qualifies them to be #1...????
They may play ONE MORE ranked them the entire year...they play in a weak sister conference...they would NOT survive an SEC or PAC-10 conference schedule.
I'm a big BSU fan, and I think they are ranked higher than they should be. Do they deserve #1, no.
Boise State took advantage of a fumble for 3 poinst and a blocked punt for 7. But the next 7 points came from a 78-yard drive. Both teams capitalized on mistakes by the other. VT recovered two fumbles and took advantage of both with touchdowns - that's 14 to 3 with respect to turnovers. Blocking a punt isn't exactly a "given" situation, and VT blocked a PAT by BSU. Also, BSU handed VT a big boost with a key roughing-the-kicker call that went from BSU taking over on downs after a missed field goal by VT to VT scoring a TD.
Boise State had 18 first downs to VT's 21. BSU had 383 total yards on offense to 314 by VT (BSU had more in both passing and rushing than did VT). BSU was penalized 11 times for 105 yards to VT's 7 times for 55 yards.
BSU went 6-15 on 3rd down conversions to VT's 4-12. VT also went 1-2 on 4th down converstions. VT had the ball for 34:20 to BSU's 25:40. In all, it was a good game with plenty of mistakes by both teams.
The game was not handed to BSU.