The toughest part about watching Boise State football, especially this part of the season, is that it gets boring. The Broncos played the New Mexico State Aggies Saturday and won 59-0; no surprise at all. I’m not surprised that the Aggies were not once inside the Broncos red zone and earned a total of 208 yards of total offense.

On the flip-side, the Broncos managed 608 yards of total offense. The thing about it though is that game was so boring. I watched the game with some friends and we probably watched a total of one quarter, sporadically while flipping from the Alabama-Florida game and the Stanford-Oregon game. Eventually we were just watching the Cardinal and the Ducks and during commercials, flipping back to the Bronco’s game.

I feel a little bad because I question my fan-hood as a BSU student when I say, “let’s watch something else.” The fact is, watching the Oregon-Stanford was a much more exciting, entertaining game.

Here is the thing though. In the four years now that I’ve been at Boise State, there have been virtually no middle games. It’s either a HUGE or low game.

Huge games like the Virginia Tech and Oregon State this season for example. The Oregon game and the Fiesta Bowl last year. The Oregon game the year before that. There are many more games I could mention that are prepped with hype.

These sort of games get us on this high because there is so much build-up and in most cases, Boise State has won those games. When BSU plays a cupcake team, like New Mexico State, a game that has zero hype, there is not a whole lot to look forward too.

The low games are the ones that you know are no contest. The football game Saturday is a perfect example of that. It was over before it started. The score was 31-0 at halftime. The second team for both offense and defense were playing by the second quarter. The back-up quarterback for Boise State, Mike Coughlin, scored the game’s first touchdown. When a game has such a low competition rate, it’s just tough to get excited about it when you KNOW the outcome before the opening kickoff.

When there is so much excitement for a game like Oregon State, i.e. ESPN College Game Day coming to Boise, the primetime slot on the ABC network, it does not compare to playing New Mexico St. and watching it on the WAC Sports Network. Which by the way was an awful broadcast. Almost every moment I was watching, there was something that made me say out loud, “Come on WSN, get it together!”

I wonder if the players were even bored with that game. The fact that a BSU game is almost not even worth watching brings back the discussion of Boise State’s easy schedule. It is an easy schedule. It’s so easy that people don’t even care to watch. It’s not Boise’s fault that their schedule is so cupcake that you could invite a bunch of kids, party hats, and have pin the tail on the donkey. They’ve done all that they possibly can to play tougher teams.

For this season, they get to say their farewells to most WAC schools before moving onto the Mountain West. If compared to a ’90s rock metal, hair band, they nailed their first show and did not destroy the hotel room.

The season will be almost all cupcake. San Jose in two weeks will be very similar to the NMSU game. Fresno State is always fun, same with Hawai’i and Utah State. I look forward to Nevada the most. They are ranked No. 21 in the country and will have that hype I talked about. Until then, the baker will be busy with all these cupcakes.