Boise State Broncos
sports teams of a university or college
The Boise State Broncos are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Boise State University, located in Boise, Idaho. The Broncos compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level as a member of the Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12). The Broncos have a successful athletic program overall, winning the WAC commissioner's cup for the 2005–06 and 2009–10 years. On September 12, 2024, Boise State announced it will be leaving the Mountain West and joining the Pac-12 on July 1, 2026.
Boise State's best-known program is football, which attained a perfect 13–0 record in 2006, capped by an overtime win in the Fiesta Bowl over the Oklahoma Sooners. They finished the season as the only major undefeated college football team. BSU's football team has won the Fiesta Bowl two more times, following the 2009 and 2014 seasons. The school's Albertsons Stadium introduced its famous blue artificial turf (now FieldTurf) forty years ago in 1986.
Other notable programs at BSU include the nationally ranked women's gymnastics team, the men's and women's basketball team, and the tennis teams which have consistently had nationally ranked players.
Conference affiliations
Pac-12 – joined 2026 (current)
Mountain West (MW) – joined 2011
Western Athletic (WAC) – joined 2001
Big West – joined 1996
Big Sky – joined 1970
Sports sponsored
Boise State University sponsors teams in seven men's and eleven women's NCAA sanctioned sports, primarily competing in the Pac-12 Conference, with the beach volleyball program competing in the Big 12 Conference.
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