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Also, to say Utah would beat Auburn over 50% may be a stretch, but they were good. Take a look at this I put together for a Texas board when people were trying to say Hawaii 07 = Utah 04 and Boise 06:

Boise 2006 played Sacramento St, Oregon State, Wyoming and Utah OOC. Not murderer's row, but they beat Oregon State, which finished 10-4, by 28, and won at Utah, which finished 8-5, by 33. So Boise's 3 I-A OOC opponents finished 24-15 on the season and lost by a combined 57 points, or 19/gm. Sac State is I-AA, but were down 35-0 at half, and had 3 first downs and 82 yds for the game.

Boise had 3 games that were within a touchdown. A 17-10 win that was 17-3 late in the 4th Q at 6-6 Wyoming, a 41-34 win over 11-3 Hawaii that Boise led 34-14, and that Hawaii scored with 3:00 to go to cut from 41-27, and a 23-20 win at those San Jose State Spartans, who finished 9-4 last year. Boise did trail late in that one.

So of their 12 regular season wins, 11 of them were either double digit wins or wins by 7 where the other team scored a TD to cut it from 14 late. The record combined of the 3 teams that played them within 7 points is 26-13.

Utah 2004 is the same story. Their OOC is Texas A&M, at Arizona, at Utah St, North Carolina. 3 BCS conf teams, 2 road games. The record of teams that played Utah within 13 points or better in 2004? 0-0. NO ONE DID. Closest win was 49-35 over Air Force, who scored with :22 to go to cut it from 49-28. The only other teams to play Utah within TWENTY were Arizona who lost 23-6 at home and the FIGHTIN FARMIN BAWLSQUEEZIN AGGY who lost 41-21 in the Torbush Game, which also featured a slop TD with :10 to go to cut it from 41-14. So every opponent but Arizona was down 21 or more with 1:00 to go in the 4th. Wyoming also lost by 'only 17', but they trailed 45-14 with 1:00 to go and scored 2 TD in the final minute. to lose 45-28.