Top 5 College Football Schools Who Win Without Great Recruiting Classes

Dec 31, 2014; Glendale, AZ, USA; Boise State Broncos head coach Bryan Harsin celebrates with the Fiesta Bowl Trophy after defeating the Arizona Wildcats in the 2014 Fiesta Bowl at Phoenix Stadium. Boise won 38-30. Mandatory Credit: Casey Sapio-USA TODAY Sports

2. Boise State Broncos

It’s Boise, Idaho. How are you going to recruit out there? Well, on paper, the Boise State Broncos never have. Their Rivals classes are never in the Top 30 and you hardly see Boise State superstars make it anywhere in the NFL.

Yet, somehow, the Broncos have run a great system over the course of 12 years that has made them the winningest team in college football, helped, of course, by a weak mid-major schedule. Still, there have been four undefeated regular seasons for the Broncos and two seasons in which they finished the entire season undefeated, each time picking up key wins against elite BCS teams: Oklahoma in 2006 and Oregon in 2009.

While everybody assumes the greatness of the program was able to be explained away by bringing up Chris Petersen, Petersen left this past year, and new head coach Bryan Harsin took his team to a Fiesta Bowl victory. This is not a result of Petersen.

This is a result of a college football program using great coaching in a pro-style offense up in Idaho to beat teams on a consistent basis, no matter where they come from. Boise State is simply a product of coaches who develop and maximize talent by focusing on fundamentals and the little things.

These guys don’t have the physicality to compete in the NFL. But they have the coaching to outwork and outsmart other teams.

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