Is tomorrow night the last time we'll see the Boise State football team at Aloha Stadium as a Western Athletic Conference member?

You might wonder given the tremors across the college landscape these days.

In the present rotation, BSU would be scheduled to pay a return visit in 2011, which coincides with when it might be of the most use to the object of its swooning affection, the Mountain West Conference.

Boise State President Bob Kustra has been panting to get the Broncos in the MWC, repeatedly wishing out loud "... it would be a good match for us."

He's written letters to MWC members in a campaign for inclusion. Moreover, BSU has joined with the nine MWC schools in hiring a Washington, D.C., attorney to at least represent the school, "in matters of the BCS, particularly as we have been asked to testify in Washington, D.C., at hearings this past summer," according to a BSU spokesman.

If the Broncos have a prayer of being invited to dance with the MWC, the BCS will be their ticket. The MWC, composed of schools that dug out on the old 16-member WAC a decade ago, has added but one member (TCU) since then and shown no inclination to take on another. The feeling apparently is that unless somebody can greatly enrich the existing members, there is no reason to add another seat at the table.

The MWC, along with the WAC, does not have a guaranteed berth in the lucrative BCS, but has its eye on upgrading its status. And it isn't hard to see why. The six automatic conferences each receive approximately $19 million in BCS receipts annually. That will go up to $24 million with the 2010 TV contract.

Compare that with the $5 million — or less — ceiling the non-guaranteed conferences can make and you sense the MWC's urgency. Trouble is the BCS big boys are loathe to share their spoils and — short of congressional bludgeoning — the only way to crack the lineup is by a complicated formula more secretly held than the Bush baked beans recipe. Under it, a conference that achieves enough Top 25 finishes can, theoretically, post a power index meriting guaranteed status.

There is considerable thought that if BSU goes to the BCS this year, the MWC could, by extending BSU an invitation by July 1, 2010, use BSU's last two Top 25 finishes to pump up its four-year rolling average for 2011, when automatic berths are doled out.

Which could mean bye, bye blue in 2011.