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

Fox’s college football pregame show is heading 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 Friday at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time, with game coverage beginning at 6:00 p.m. 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 with a 7-0 mark in conference play. The Broncos will most likely face No. 22 UNLV (9-2), which can punch its ticket to the title game with a win over 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 so far is to get us here. And now, whoever we play, it’s 60 minutes of ‘Who wants it more?’ It’s everything for both sides.”

The Rebels and Broncos also faced off in the Mountain West Championship last year, with Boise State earning a 44-20 win 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 ran a career-high 37 times for 226 yards and a touchdown. It was the Broncos’ tenth win in a row.

“It’s hard to win,” Danielson said. “It’s something where we’re going to celebrate every single win and learn from every single win. But it’s hard to win. When you look at college football, crazy things happen, especially in November.

“When you go into a championship game now, both sides know what’s important. … And we’ve been in situations several times during my time here where we won a championship and the next year we didn’t. We have to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.”

A win over UNLV in the Mountain West Championship would likely give the Broncos a bye in the first round of the College Football Playoff. The next ranking will be published on Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time.

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

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