<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="bioname">Chris Petersen</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"></td> <td class="bioposition">Football</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"></td> <td class="bioposition">Head Coach</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"></td> <td class="bioposition">Alma Mater: UC Davis
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Release: 08/29/2006</font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sm" colspan="2">In just two seasons as the head coach at Boise State, </a>[url="http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=578844"]<font color="#FE4703">Chris Petersen</font> has already established himself as one of the top young football coaches in the country. During his tenure at the Broncos' helm, Petersen has guided Boise State to a 23-3 record and a pair of bowl games - the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl following the 2006 season and the Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl following the 2007 campaign. Under the 43-year-old Petersen, Boise State has compiled a 15-1 record in Western Athletic Conference play, with a league championship in 2006 and a runner-up finish in '07. Considered one of the most innovative offensive minds in the college coaching ranks, Petersen has guided an offense that continues to be among the nation's best. At the end of the 2007 season, Boise State ranked fourth in scoring offense (42.38 points per game), sixth in passing efficiency (152.93), 12th in total offense (467.38 yards per game), 23rd in passing offense (282.46), and 33rd in rushing offense (184.92). The Broncos' defense was nearly as good in 2007. BSU's defensive squad was ranked 25th nationally in scoring defense (21.62 ppg), 25th in total defense (338 ypg), 35th in rushing defense (130.85 ypg), 24th in pass efficiency defense (113.42), and 26th in pass defense (207.15 ypg). Furthermore, the Broncos' special teams were 22nd in punt returns (12.25 yards per return), 20th in net punting (37.31 yards per punt), 10th in kickoff returns (24.65 yards per return) and blocked 11 kicks in '07. A year after being named the "Bear" Bryant Coach of the Year following the 2006 season, Petersen once again found his name on the short list among the nation's best coaches being considered for postseason honors in 2007. Petersen, who guided the Broncos to a 10-3 record in his second season, was a semifinalist for the George Munger Award and on the watch lists for the Bryant and Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year awards. In the history of college football, only one coach since 1900 won 13 games in his first season at the helm of a Division I football team. That coach was Petersen in 2006 as he led Boise State to a 13-0 record, culminated by the Broncos' stirring 43-42 overtime win over Oklahoma in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl on New Year's Day 2007. In addition to winning the 2006 "Bear" Bryant Coach of the Year Award, Petersen was a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award, a semifinalist for the George Munger Coach of the Year Award, and was named the Region 4 Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association. The unbeaten Broncos finished the '06 campaign ranked fifth in the Associated Press Top 25 poll and sixth in the USA Today coaches' poll, the highest rankings in school history. As the ninth head coach in the 40-year history of BSU's football participation at the four-year level, Petersen led the '06 Broncos to their first undefeated season since 1958 (when the school was still a junior college), their first-ever BCS bowl berth, and their fifth straight WAC title. Honors and national rankings are nothing new to Petersen. As Boise State's offensive coordinator from 2001-2005, he was twice (2002 and 2004) a finalist for the Broyles Award, which honors the nation's top assistant football coach. During Petersen's stint as offensive coordinator, Boise State featured one of the most balanced offenses in the country, averaging 41.3 points per game while also finishing as the nation's top scoring team twice (2002 and 2003). The Broncos also finished second (2004), eighth (2005) and 18th (2001) in the nation in scoring while Petersen was running the Broncos' offense. During Petersen's five seasons as offensive coordinator, BSU finished in the top 15 in total offense four times, including three top10 finishes - first in 2002, fourth in 2004, and seventh in 2003. The Broncos also had four top 20 finishes in passing during that time, including a high ranking of fifth in 2003. BSU also ranked in the top 25 in the country in rushing in three of the last four seasons that Petersen coached the offense, including 14th in 2004 and 15th in 2005. Several players have excelled individually under Petersen in his two years as head coach - departed offensive tackle <a rel="nofollow" class="ARTICLELINK" href="http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=520501">[/url]<font color="#FE4703">Ryan Clady</font> and senior running back </a>[url="http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521774"]<font color="#FE4703">Ian Johnson</font> in particular. Following the 2007 season Clady was named a first-team All-American by the American Football Coaches Association and Sporting News and to four second-team All-America squads. He was the first Bronco player to be named an AFCA All-American since Boise State moved to Division I in 1996. Clady made BSU football history again in April of this year when - after deciding in December to leave school early and enter the NFL draft - he was the first Bronco to be selected in the first round of the draft, going 12th overall as the top pick of the Denver Broncos. Johnson became the school's first Division I first-team All-America pick in 2006 when SI.com and CBS Sportsline.com tabbed the then-sophomore as one of two running backs on their respective teams. Sporting News honored Johnson as a second-team All-America pick, and the Associated Press named him to its third-team All-America list. Clady became just the fourth Bronco to earn second-team All-America honors when he was selected by SI.com in 2006. In Petersen's two years as head coach, 12 of his players were named first-team All-WAC and nine others were selected second-team all-conference. One Bronco, http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521358<font color="#FE4703">Korey Hall</font> in 2006, was named WAC Defensive Player of the Year. In 2007, the Broncos placed five players on the WAC first-team offense, including Clady and Johnson for the second straight season. The others were wide receiver http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=520500<font color="#FE4703">Jeremy Childs</font>, defensive lineman http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521823<font color="#FE4703">Nick Schlekeway</font>, and defensive back http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521838<font color="#FE4703">Marty Tadman</font>. Four players received second-team recognition. In 2006 Johnson and Clady spearheaded a Bronco offense under Petersen that placed six players on the All-WAC first or second team and finished the season second in the nation in scoring and rushing touchdowns, sixth in rushing, and 10th in total offense. Not to be outdone, the 2006 Bronco defense placed three players on the WAC first or second team and finishing eighth in the nation in rushing defense, 14th in total defense, and 20th in scoring defense. In 2006 Boise State also led the WAC in rushing defense, pass efficiency defense, scoring defense and total defense. A school-record four players were picked in the 2007 NFL draft with defensive back http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=520472<font color="#FE4703">Gerald Alexander</font> going to the Detroit Lions in the second round, wide receiver http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521797<font color="#FE4703">Legedu Naanee</font> to the San Diego Chargers in the fifth round, Hall to the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round, and tight end http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521825<font color="#FE4703">Derek Schouman</font> to the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round. As BSU's offensive coordinator and then as its head coach, Petersen was instrumental in the development of quarterbacks Ryan Dinwiddie and http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521854<a rel="nofollow" class="ARTICLELINK" href="http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521854"><font color="#FE4703">Jared Zabransky</font>[/url], who are among the most successful signal callers in Division I football in recent years. Dinwiddie, who guided the Bronco offense from 2001-03, finished as the NCAA career passing efficiency leader with a rating of 168.19. Dinwiddie had a career-best 188.18 rating in 2002 that would have set an NCAA single-season record if he played in one more game. (He missed four complete games and parts of two other contests because of a leg injury.) He also had a 164.69 rating in 2001 and a 163.72 rating in 2003, both good enough for fourth in the country. With Petersen as his quarterback coach as well as the team's offensive coordinator, Dinwiddie led the Broncos to a 28-6 record as a starter. After Dinwiddie left, Petersen helped groom Zabransky into one of the nation's most successful quarterbacks from 2004-06. Zabransky led Boise State to three straight league titles, two undefeated regular seasons, and a 32-5 record in his three years as a starter, including a 23-1 record in WAC games. In his five seasons as offensive coordinator, Petersen had two players earn national All-America honors - running back Brock Forsey in 2002 and offensive tackle Daryn Colledge in 2004, while 12 Broncos earned first-team All-WAC honors and two (Dinwiddie in 2003 and Forsey in 2002) were named WAC Offensive Player of the Year. Petersen came to Boise State as Dan Hawkins' offensive coordinator following the 2000 season from Oregon, where he was the wide receivers coach. He joined the Oregon staff in 1995 and immediately helped contribute to a passing attack that ranked among the nation's elite each of the six seasons he was an assistant. Twice during Petersen's tenure at Oregon, the Duck offense broke the school record for single-season passing yards, and three times in the same time period the team broke the single-season school record for most touchdowns. Prior to working at Oregon, Petersen served as the quarterbacks coach at Portland State from 1993-1994, helping the Vikings advance to the NCAA Division II playoffs both seasons. In 1992 Petersen was the quarterbacks coach at Pittsburgh. That season the Panthers established a school record for passing yards and ranked eighth nationally in total offense and passing. In addition, he contributed to the development of first-team All-Big East Conference quarterback Alex Van Pelt, who eclipsed the school's passing yardage totals previously held by Dan Marino. Petersen's success as a coach can be linked to his record-setting career as a quarterback at the University of California, Davis. As a senior with the Aggies, he was named the Northern California Athletic Conference Player of the Year and was the top-rated Division II quarterback in the nation. Petersen received second-team Kodak Division II All-America honors and still holds the Division II record for career pass completions at 69.6 percent. Petersen was inducted into the UC Davis Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993. After receiving his bachelor's degree in psychology from UC Davis in 1988, Petersen started his coaching career at his alma mater, serving as UC Davis' head freshman coach in 1987-88 and the receivers coach from 1989-91. Petersen holds a master's degree in educational psychology from UC Davis. He and his wife, Barbara, are the parents of two sons, Jack (13) and Sam (10).</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sm"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>http://www.broncosports.c...=578844&Q_SEASON=2008
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</a> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="sm" colspan="2"><span class="articlecopy"><font color="#787878" size="1">Courtesy: Boise State Sports Information
Release: 08/29/2006</font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sm" colspan="2">In just two seasons as the head coach at Boise State, </a>[url="http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=578844"]<font color="#FE4703">Chris Petersen</font> has already established himself as one of the top young football coaches in the country. During his tenure at the Broncos' helm, Petersen has guided Boise State to a 23-3 record and a pair of bowl games - the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl following the 2006 season and the Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl following the 2007 campaign. Under the 43-year-old Petersen, Boise State has compiled a 15-1 record in Western Athletic Conference play, with a league championship in 2006 and a runner-up finish in '07. Considered one of the most innovative offensive minds in the college coaching ranks, Petersen has guided an offense that continues to be among the nation's best. At the end of the 2007 season, Boise State ranked fourth in scoring offense (42.38 points per game), sixth in passing efficiency (152.93), 12th in total offense (467.38 yards per game), 23rd in passing offense (282.46), and 33rd in rushing offense (184.92). The Broncos' defense was nearly as good in 2007. BSU's defensive squad was ranked 25th nationally in scoring defense (21.62 ppg), 25th in total defense (338 ypg), 35th in rushing defense (130.85 ypg), 24th in pass efficiency defense (113.42), and 26th in pass defense (207.15 ypg). Furthermore, the Broncos' special teams were 22nd in punt returns (12.25 yards per return), 20th in net punting (37.31 yards per punt), 10th in kickoff returns (24.65 yards per return) and blocked 11 kicks in '07. A year after being named the "Bear" Bryant Coach of the Year following the 2006 season, Petersen once again found his name on the short list among the nation's best coaches being considered for postseason honors in 2007. Petersen, who guided the Broncos to a 10-3 record in his second season, was a semifinalist for the George Munger Award and on the watch lists for the Bryant and Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year awards. In the history of college football, only one coach since 1900 won 13 games in his first season at the helm of a Division I football team. That coach was Petersen in 2006 as he led Boise State to a 13-0 record, culminated by the Broncos' stirring 43-42 overtime win over Oklahoma in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl on New Year's Day 2007. In addition to winning the 2006 "Bear" Bryant Coach of the Year Award, Petersen was a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award, a semifinalist for the George Munger Coach of the Year Award, and was named the Region 4 Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association. The unbeaten Broncos finished the '06 campaign ranked fifth in the Associated Press Top 25 poll and sixth in the USA Today coaches' poll, the highest rankings in school history. As the ninth head coach in the 40-year history of BSU's football participation at the four-year level, Petersen led the '06 Broncos to their first undefeated season since 1958 (when the school was still a junior college), their first-ever BCS bowl berth, and their fifth straight WAC title. Honors and national rankings are nothing new to Petersen. As Boise State's offensive coordinator from 2001-2005, he was twice (2002 and 2004) a finalist for the Broyles Award, which honors the nation's top assistant football coach. During Petersen's stint as offensive coordinator, Boise State featured one of the most balanced offenses in the country, averaging 41.3 points per game while also finishing as the nation's top scoring team twice (2002 and 2003). The Broncos also finished second (2004), eighth (2005) and 18th (2001) in the nation in scoring while Petersen was running the Broncos' offense. During Petersen's five seasons as offensive coordinator, BSU finished in the top 15 in total offense four times, including three top10 finishes - first in 2002, fourth in 2004, and seventh in 2003. The Broncos also had four top 20 finishes in passing during that time, including a high ranking of fifth in 2003. BSU also ranked in the top 25 in the country in rushing in three of the last four seasons that Petersen coached the offense, including 14th in 2004 and 15th in 2005. Several players have excelled individually under Petersen in his two years as head coach - departed offensive tackle <a rel="nofollow" class="ARTICLELINK" href="http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=520501">[/url]<font color="#FE4703">Ryan Clady</font> and senior running back </a>[url="http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521774"]<font color="#FE4703">Ian Johnson</font> in particular. Following the 2007 season Clady was named a first-team All-American by the American Football Coaches Association and Sporting News and to four second-team All-America squads. He was the first Bronco player to be named an AFCA All-American since Boise State moved to Division I in 1996. Clady made BSU football history again in April of this year when - after deciding in December to leave school early and enter the NFL draft - he was the first Bronco to be selected in the first round of the draft, going 12th overall as the top pick of the Denver Broncos. Johnson became the school's first Division I first-team All-America pick in 2006 when SI.com and CBS Sportsline.com tabbed the then-sophomore as one of two running backs on their respective teams. Sporting News honored Johnson as a second-team All-America pick, and the Associated Press named him to its third-team All-America list. Clady became just the fourth Bronco to earn second-team All-America honors when he was selected by SI.com in 2006. In Petersen's two years as head coach, 12 of his players were named first-team All-WAC and nine others were selected second-team all-conference. One Bronco, http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521358<font color="#FE4703">Korey Hall</font> in 2006, was named WAC Defensive Player of the Year. In 2007, the Broncos placed five players on the WAC first-team offense, including Clady and Johnson for the second straight season. The others were wide receiver http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=520500<font color="#FE4703">Jeremy Childs</font>, defensive lineman http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521823<font color="#FE4703">Nick Schlekeway</font>, and defensive back http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521838<font color="#FE4703">Marty Tadman</font>. Four players received second-team recognition. In 2006 Johnson and Clady spearheaded a Bronco offense under Petersen that placed six players on the All-WAC first or second team and finished the season second in the nation in scoring and rushing touchdowns, sixth in rushing, and 10th in total offense. Not to be outdone, the 2006 Bronco defense placed three players on the WAC first or second team and finishing eighth in the nation in rushing defense, 14th in total defense, and 20th in scoring defense. In 2006 Boise State also led the WAC in rushing defense, pass efficiency defense, scoring defense and total defense. A school-record four players were picked in the 2007 NFL draft with defensive back http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=520472<font color="#FE4703">Gerald Alexander</font> going to the Detroit Lions in the second round, wide receiver http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521797<font color="#FE4703">Legedu Naanee</font> to the San Diego Chargers in the fifth round, Hall to the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round, and tight end http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521825<font color="#FE4703">Derek Schouman</font> to the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round. As BSU's offensive coordinator and then as its head coach, Petersen was instrumental in the development of quarterbacks Ryan Dinwiddie and http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521854<a rel="nofollow" class="ARTICLELINK" href="http://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=54307&SPID=4061&DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=521854"><font color="#FE4703">Jared Zabransky</font>[/url], who are among the most successful signal callers in Division I football in recent years. Dinwiddie, who guided the Bronco offense from 2001-03, finished as the NCAA career passing efficiency leader with a rating of 168.19. Dinwiddie had a career-best 188.18 rating in 2002 that would have set an NCAA single-season record if he played in one more game. (He missed four complete games and parts of two other contests because of a leg injury.) He also had a 164.69 rating in 2001 and a 163.72 rating in 2003, both good enough for fourth in the country. With Petersen as his quarterback coach as well as the team's offensive coordinator, Dinwiddie led the Broncos to a 28-6 record as a starter. After Dinwiddie left, Petersen helped groom Zabransky into one of the nation's most successful quarterbacks from 2004-06. Zabransky led Boise State to three straight league titles, two undefeated regular seasons, and a 32-5 record in his three years as a starter, including a 23-1 record in WAC games. In his five seasons as offensive coordinator, Petersen had two players earn national All-America honors - running back Brock Forsey in 2002 and offensive tackle Daryn Colledge in 2004, while 12 Broncos earned first-team All-WAC honors and two (Dinwiddie in 2003 and Forsey in 2002) were named WAC Offensive Player of the Year. Petersen came to Boise State as Dan Hawkins' offensive coordinator following the 2000 season from Oregon, where he was the wide receivers coach. He joined the Oregon staff in 1995 and immediately helped contribute to a passing attack that ranked among the nation's elite each of the six seasons he was an assistant. Twice during Petersen's tenure at Oregon, the Duck offense broke the school record for single-season passing yards, and three times in the same time period the team broke the single-season school record for most touchdowns. Prior to working at Oregon, Petersen served as the quarterbacks coach at Portland State from 1993-1994, helping the Vikings advance to the NCAA Division II playoffs both seasons. In 1992 Petersen was the quarterbacks coach at Pittsburgh. That season the Panthers established a school record for passing yards and ranked eighth nationally in total offense and passing. In addition, he contributed to the development of first-team All-Big East Conference quarterback Alex Van Pelt, who eclipsed the school's passing yardage totals previously held by Dan Marino. Petersen's success as a coach can be linked to his record-setting career as a quarterback at the University of California, Davis. As a senior with the Aggies, he was named the Northern California Athletic Conference Player of the Year and was the top-rated Division II quarterback in the nation. Petersen received second-team Kodak Division II All-America honors and still holds the Division II record for career pass completions at 69.6 percent. Petersen was inducted into the UC Davis Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993. After receiving his bachelor's degree in psychology from UC Davis in 1988, Petersen started his coaching career at his alma mater, serving as UC Davis' head freshman coach in 1987-88 and the receivers coach from 1989-91. Petersen holds a master's degree in educational psychology from UC Davis. He and his wife, Barbara, are the parents of two sons, Jack (13) and Sam (10).</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sm"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>http://www.broncosports.c...=578844&Q_SEASON=2008