Kellen Moore: Nothing We Expected, and How He Became Everything We Did

Standing at a mere six feet and 191 pounds, Kellen Moore is poised to post a mark that—unless FBS goes to a playoff format and plays 15 games a season like the FCS—will never be touched. 

Fifty wins. Fifty!

To win 50 games (I believe a second-grader could do the math), you would have to start and win 12.5 games during your four-year stint in college. If Moore does it tonight then it only took him 53 games to reach that mark.  

It is well chronicled that Moore is 49-3 as a starter for the Broncos. The three losses, TCU twice and Nevada, by a combined five points. That's scary. I don't care what conference a team plays in, that is remarkable.

There were not a lot of expectations when Moore "went out on the blue" for the first time as the starting quarterback. He had red-shirted the previous season and he looked like a child out on the field. Instead, he made the defenses that he played against look childish. That same year he led the Boise State to a 12-0 record in the regular season before falling to TCU (also undefeated) 17-16 in the Poinsettia Bowl.

Expectations began to grow and Moore was playing the position arguably better than anyone in the country. In 2009, Boise State beat TCU 17-10 in the 2010 Fiesta Bowl and if it weren't for field goal kicking, Moore and the Broncos would have crashed the BCS party the last two years as well. Most of the success can be attributed to Moore, but very few saw that coming.

He "walked on to the blue" as a sheepish freshman and left as just a flat-out winner. He was overlooked during Tebow and Cam Newton mania, but he never overlooked an opponent.

He just kept winning.

A prestigious career and a class act.

Winning has come to be expected from this man, but you never would have known it prior to August 30th, 2008.