Boise State: I am absolutely going to cheat on this answer - deal with it. Boise State, like all football teams has many places that it could use some improvement in, but I am going to focus on a spot that they did exceptionally well in last year. Linebacker.
Boise State is losing one of the greatest players in program history to the NFL draft in Leighton Vander Esch. Let me repeat - one of the greatest players in program history. You just don’t lose a player the caliber of LVE and just keep plugging along.