What would you do to prepare to play the No. 3 team in the country? Bronco Stadium is loud, loud, LOUD so extra noise is a must. But paint the practice field blue to simulate the Smurf Turf visiting teams have to play on? Believe it, baby.

Evidently, this has been in the works for a couple weeks, but if you so much as mentioned the words "Boise State" around the OSU football team before this week, Cav was gonna make you do bear crawls. And if the offensive linemen are an honest bunch, you want nothing to do with bear crawls.

Fear not, taxpayers, you aren't paying for this: The blue turf comes courtesy of an anonymous donor.

SID Steve Fenk told us that the whole project -- the field had to be painted white before the blue in order for the blue to stick -- will take a total of

440 gallons of paint

. They started at 8 a.m. on Monday and should be finished around 3 p.m. (We'll go check again in the afternoon.)







OSU has Mondays off during the season, so players won't get on it until tomorrow when they return for practice. The scout team will also wear blue jerseys this week.

Because of scheduling conflicts, the Beavers won't be able to do a walk-thru on Friday in Boise at the stadium. This is an interesting (and clever) solution to that problem.

Will all this help knock off the BCS-busting Broncos? We'll just have to wait and see.