Some of the best plays of the Boise State football team’s 2017 season are directly related to failures in those same situations in 2016.
Never was that more true than Saturday night, when the Broncos recovered an onside kick to spark their come-from-behind, 59-52, overtime win at Colorado State.
Last year in Boise, the Rams recovered two onside kicks while trying to stage their own furious rally against the Broncos.
“We learned something from it,” Boise State coach Bryan Harsin said. “There’s a reason why we’re better at it, or at least we were tonight.”
Still, there’s a great deal of luck involved in a successful onside kick.