Boise State Basketball: A Cinderella Season Or The Usual Step Short?

One Shot Short 2015. A raucous red crowd in Dayton, Ohio roared as a white-clad Derrick Marks dribbled up the floor. Announcers on the sideline gesticulated wildly while the amped-up home fanbase goaded on their Dayton Flyers. The Boise State Broncos weren't fazed. They kept their shoulders square in the face of unbridled opposing momentum …

Week 9 Group of 5 Games of The Week

In a week where there are not a lot of big time match ups in the Group of 5 Conferences, besides USF vs UH, there are still some notable games that could affect bowl match ups and conference standings. While there are some interesting Mid-Week games, we are just going to be breaking down the …

Virginia Upsets Boise State With Blowout Road Win

History was made on several different levels Friday night and the Virginia Cavaliers shocked the Boise State Broncos with a 42-23 win in front of 33,947 fans at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho. Coming in as a 14-point underdog, Virginia (3-1) got its first win west of the Mississippi since 1991 and exceeded its 2016 …

The 2017 Forgotten5 Road Trip

Everybody loves a good trip, right? Everybody loves quality college football too, right? This season we are going to combine those two things into one epic road trip. In this trip, we'll hit every single Group of Five campus along the way. That's right, every one of them. In doing so, we'll also hit the …

Boise State Broncos vs Oklahoma Sooners – The Time I Watched $100 Disappear, and Loved Every Second of It

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=awAq_7S08o0 New Year's Day. January 1, 2007. A day that will live in infamy. The day I was fleeced a C-note. The last day I gambled on college football. But more importantly, it was the day College Football was brought to its knees. This very day every G5/Mid-Major program had a voice to cry out …

The G5 Teams Most Likely to Beat a P5 Opponent

We are officially under one month to go before we kick off the 2017 season and it’s time to look at which Group of Five teams can grab a win against a Power Five opponent. For four of the five teams soon to be mentioned, they will each have something in common. They will be …

Bracket of Doom: Championship Round

We've made our way past 15 matchups in order to decide what the greatest Group of Five moment of the last decade was. Now it's time for the 16th and final contest to decide the winner. We saw surprising upsets such as 13-seeded Louisiana-Monroe's win over Alabama cruising past the roller coaster that was the …

Greatest G5 Moments of the Past Decade: Final Four

Round two is in the books and it was quite eventful, to say the least. We received a total of 315 votes across four matchups. To put that number into perspective, we received 344 votes from the entire first round (eight matchups). We saw mind-boggling upsets and Army return to its regular punching bag form …

The Greatest G5 Moments of the Past Decade: Bracket of Doom

The Group of Five conferences have had its fair share of shocking upsets, wild endings and eye-popping plays. But which moments were truly the biggest? We here at Forgotten5 have put together 16 of the best moments the Group of Five has seen in the last decade. In order to figure out which one tops …

Top G5 Non-Conference Matchups of 2017

With the putrid garbage fire the NBA calls a “playoff” nearing its end, it’s finally time to talk a little football.  This year’s schedule features several intriguing non-conference group of five games, no power five teams involved, and we’ll hit four of those with this list today.   Oregon State at Colorado State August 26 …