Boise State won the Mountain West championship as the first expanded CFP bracket began to take shape

Heading to Boise State. College Football Playoff.

The Broncos clinched the Mountain West Conference title on Friday night and clinched their spot. played First 12-team playoff with a 21-7 victory over UNLV in the Mountain West championship game.

Star running back Ashton Janette rushed for 209 yards and a touchdown in his sixth 200-plus yard game this season.

With 2,497 rushing yards for the season, Janette is now fourth on the FBS all-time single-season rushing list behind only Barry Sanders (2,628 yards in 1988), Melvin Gordon (2,587 in 2014) and UCF’s Kevin Smith (2,507). . . Janette also finished the regular season with 29 rushing touchdowns.

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Janetti gave Boise State the tone-setting play with a 75-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, his 12th carry of 50 or more yards this season.

Boise State will maintain or improve on its No. 10 ranking in the final College Football Playoff rankings coming out Sunday. That would almost certainly make the Broncos no worse than the fourth-best conference title and in line for a first-round bye.

Saturday’s Big 12 title game pits No. 15 Arizona State against No. 16 Iowa State.

The winner is in the playoffs. But the only realistic way left for either team to earn a bye (and the extra $4 million that comes with it) is to tie a win — preferably a convincing one — over Atlantic Coast Conference leader, No. 8 With the loss to SMU. , which plays No. 17 Clemson.

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The Big 12 commissioner and Iowa State’s athletic director are among those already crying foul. By the time the title games are over and the brackets are revealed, they won’t be the only ones.

Now Malik will turn his attention to other conference championship games as the first playoff picture of the extended playoff era shakes up.

Oregon, the top-ranked and only undefeated team in the nation, is also included. But Saturday’s game against No. 3 Penn State is for the Big Ten title and a first-round bye.

If Penn State prevails, there’s an argument that the Nittany Lions could end up with that top seed.

In the SEC, it’s No. 2 Texas vs. No. 5 Georgia. Sadly, Bevo will not be in the building. The winner gets a bye and the championship. The loser should still be in, but if that loser is Georgia, the Dawgs could be on the road for the first round.

Depending on how the bracket shapes up, these teams could face each other three times this season.

Barring something completely unexpected, it would either take a loss by SMU, a change of heart on the part of the selection committee or both to knock Alabama out of the bracket. If the Tide make it, the Southeastern Conference will have four teams in the playoffs.

Since the selection committee ranked the Crimson Tide No. 11 last week, one spot ahead of Miami, it appears the Tide will be ahead of the Atlantic Coast Conference Hurricanes. The way the rankings shook out last week, that meant Alabama was in and Miami was out.

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A handful of teams aren’t playing this weekend and don’t need to worry too much. No. 4 Notre Dame should get a home game.

No. 9 Indiana, one of four Big Ten teams projected to make the playoffs, will likely be on the road.

In between, there’s No. 6 Ohio State and No. 7 Tennessee. Last week’s projected bracket paired the 10-2 teams in a first-round game played at the Horseshoe in Columbus, Ohio.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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