{"id":734,"date":"2019-09-07T20:18:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T20:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/?p=734"},"modified":"2019-09-07T20:43:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T20:43:32","slug":"boise-state-move-to-2-0-with-hard-fought-win-over-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/boise-state-move-to-2-0-with-hard-fought-win-over-marshall\/","title":{"rendered":"Boise State Move to 2-0 With Hard Fought Win Over Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boise State Broncos who crashed the AP top 25 this week thanks to a huge win at FSU made it two wins out of two with a narrow win over Marshall. The final score of 14-7 probably flattered the Thundering Herd slightly but did more to reinforce our belief that they might just about be the best team in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/2019-college-football-season-conference-predictions-mountain-west\/\">Mountain West<\/a> this year and are a good bet for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/five-minute-guide-to-the-new-year-bowl-games-ny6\/\">At Large<\/a> bowl bid from the Group of Five conferences.<\/p>\n<p>The offense sputtered a bit on Friday night but still put up 437 yards against one of the strongest teams in C-USA, and its the mark of a good team when they can play below par and still come up with a win. The defense looked good, completely shutting down Marshall in the second half (zero net offensive yards)\u00a0 and Curtis Weaver had another nice game. He has averaged annual double-digit sacks in his career so far and looks on course to keep this up.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall who are our tip to win their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/2019-college-football-season-conference-predictions-c-usa\/\">division<\/a> in 2019, won&#8217;t be too downhearted by this but will have to pick themselves up quickly as they have two more tough non-conference games coming up, however, both are at home.<\/p>\n<p>Boise has FCS Portland State coming up next, which will be no pushover either given they gave SEC Arkansas a fright in their opener,\u00a0 however going to 3-0 looks on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>Attendance 31,951<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boise State Broncos who crashed the AP top 25 this week thanks to a huge win at FSU made it two wins out of two with a narrow win over Marshall. The final score of 14-7 probably flattered the Thundering Herd slightly but did more to reinforce our belief that they might just about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25,11],"tags":[143,148],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference-usa","category-group-of-five","category-mountain-west-conference","tag-boise-state","tag-marshall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}