No. 6 Boise State makes Idaho blue

Published Nov. 15, 2009 10:01 a.m. ET

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Coach Chris Petersen claims to not pay any heed to the BCS popularity contest. That would be the one that excluded his rampaging Boise State Broncos last year following a perfect regular season and threatens to do so again this season.

Yet there was Petersen this week hanging a quote in the locker room from Robb Akey. The energetic coach of resurgent Idaho said he wanted to "take care of business," ruin his rival's BCS push and make the entire WAC mad at him for costing the conference the big bucks of having a team in the series.

And this was Petersen on Saturday, after Kellen Moore threw four touchdown passes to Austin Pettis and tied a career high with five overall while the supposedly endangered, No. 6 Broncos overwhelmed the shellshocked Vandals, 63-25:

"I think we'll probably drop about three or four notches."