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Published: December 17, 2006
Boise blooms into a football power
OU football: No small potatoes
By George Schroeder
BOISE , Idaho — The phrase — " Rose Bowl 2000” — was something they whispered only to each other.

Less a dream than an inside joke, really. But there was no doubt John Keiser , Boise State 's president, and Gene Bleymaier , the school's athletic director, were aiming high when, some 15 years ago, they made a push to elevate the football program to NCAA Division I-A .

Aiming too high, apparently. At...

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