AI Says Boise State’s Championship Hopes Ride On One Player

If you ask the average Idahoan about Artificial Intelligence, you'll hear optimism about its capabilities but a general mistrust of how people will use it. Will it take my job one day? And How ethical is its decision-making going to be? These are common questions that people have. But what about its ability to predict the future?

Many people don't know that there are several different AI models. Most people are familiar with ChatGPT, which is by far the most famous, but is it the best? That really depends on who you ask. Since the jury is still out on the best model, we asked the top four about this year's College Football Playoffs and what it would take for Boise State to win the chip. We used OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Sonnet, Anthropic's Haiku, and xAI's Grok.

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Given that this year's field is very strong, AI sees a Broncos Championship victory as highly unlikely but not impossible. Each model believes that it comes down to the play of one player, and it's not the one you think.

According to all AI models, Ashton Jeanty will do what Ashton Jeanty does, but that won't be enough for Boise State to win College Football's top prize. While all of the models slightly disagreed on the outcomes of each game, they all agreed on one thing: For Boise State to win it all, it will come down to the play of quarterback Maddux Madsen. Because of the strong defenses that BSU will go up against, it will take nearly perfect play from the quarterback position, and he will need help from his receivers. That might be asking too much for a team that has depended on the running game for its offense.

So, how far does AI think the Broncos can get? Below are each AI model's final predictions for each matchup in the College Football Playoffs.