Boise State Wins Final Four

We here at The Crypt get a lot of press releases, but when Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) sent one out Thursday night proclaiming that his own Boise State University had just won the “Final Four,” even we had to do a double take.

Turns out the school had just won “Craig’s College Climate Change Challenge,” a mythical competition for the university with the smallest “carbon footprint,” as measured by the average amount of CO2 their university produced for every student on their campus.

And when it was all said and done, the upstart Broncos defeated Yale, the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Minnesota in one of the unlikeliest Final Fours you will ever see outside of the academic decathalon.

And nothing attracts the attention of politicians like one college team beating another, even when they invent the competition themselves.

“What your colleges and universities are doing today is outside any law that Congress could ever create,” Craig said in a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on climate change.

“You are grabbing the issue, you are taking the issue and running with it in a fair and responsible way.”

It’s not the first upset for Boise State.

Sorry, all you Sooners fans. We just could not resist the chance to post a clip of the Boise State football team pulling off one of the greatest upsets in college football history in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.

Wonder if they will put the prize from “Craig’s College Climate Change Challenge” in the same trophy case.