The Western Athletic Conference had a great weekend from a national publicity standpoint. Boise State’s 69-67 win against Nevada is the highest scoring game in NCAA history and will go down as one of the most exciting games this season. A national ESPN audience watched the Wolf Pack and Broncos rack up more than 1,100 yards of offense in a four-overtime thriller.

The game broke all kinds of conference and national records and attracted plenty of attention - the game even got a plug in The New York Times’ college football blog.

Don’t forget, though, that Hawaii and San Jose State played an exciting, high-scoring, overtime game of their own Friday night on ESPN where the Warriors erased a 14-point deficit in the final minutes of the fourth quarter before winning in OT.

After Boise State’s Fiesta Bowl win last season and Hawaii’s BCS challenge this season - along with Colt Brennan’s impending surge at the Heisman Trophy - the WAC was already warranting some national attention. Games like this weekends can only help that.

At this point, the WAC is positioning itself as the premier non-BCS conference in college athletics.

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