Not again.

Surely that was the collective thought of Bronco Nation as Boise State redshirt freshman kicker Dan Goodale lined up for a 39-yard field goal on the final play Saturday afternoon at Bronco Stadium.

And certainly that was the thought — with some exclamation points for the pain — as Goodale’s kick sailed wide right.

The miss sealed TCU’s 36-35 triumph — Boise State’s first home loss in nearly six years and a defeat that shatters the Broncos’ lofty dreams for this season, starting with the Mountain West Conference championship that the Horned Frogs can secure with two home wins against league bottom-feeders UNLV and Colorado State.

The Broncos also have little remaining hope of a Bowl Championship Series bid that would have generated about $3 million for the university.

“It’s definitely hard. It’s a feeling similar to the feeling last year,” senior defensive end Tyrone Crawford said. “It sucks.”

Last year, kicker Kyle Brotzman missed a 26-yard field goal that would have broken a tie on the last play at Nevada. The Wolf Pack won in overtime.

The difference this year is that the Broncos were relying on an unproven kicker, rather than the highest scoring kicker in college football history. Goodale was 3-for-4 on field goals, none longer than 32 yards, and had missed six PATs this season.

Still, coach Chris Petersen decided to play for the field goal rather than try for a touchdown. On third-and-5 at the TCU 20-yard line, with 21 seconds and a timeout left, he instructed quarterback Kellen Moore to run the ball to the middle of the field.

The Broncos (8-1 overall, 3-1 MW) let the clock run down to 1 second, called timeout and summoned Goodale — a walk-on from Timberline High who won a three-way battle for the kicking job in fall camp.

“He’s been kicking pretty well in practice and we thought he could make it,” said Petersen, who lost at home for the first time.

TCU (8-2, 5-0) snapped the Broncos’ 35-game home winning streak and extended its record Mountain West winning streak to 22 games. Boise State hadn’t lost a home conference game since the 1998 season finale against Idaho.

BSU and TCU have split four meetings in the past nine years — by a combined total of 12 points.

“To take down a team like that is amazing,” TCU senior linebacker Tank Carder said.

TCU coach Gary Patterson used every defensive call he had against Moore and the senior Heisman Trophy candidate still completed 75.7 percent of his passes, didn’t commit a turnover and had the Broncos in position for many more points (two fumbles, missed field goal) than ended up on the scoreboard.

“I’m glad I don’t have to face Kellen Moore again,” Patterson said. “… Like I told Kellen on the field, I’m happy for us but I’m also sad for them. I know how hard they’ve (worked).”

The Broncos slipped to 46-3 in Moore’s four-year career as the starting quarterback.

Those three losses include two one-pointers to TCU and the overtime loss to Nevada. In those games, the Broncos missed a total of four field goals.

Moore, like last year in Reno, spread the blame.

“Just missed opportunities,” he said. “I don’t think it’s one play. There are a variety of plays that you look back and try to improve on those and maybe we have a little better opportunity. But they made more plays than us.”

TCU did most of its damage in the first half, taking a 20-14 lead thanks to Casey Pachall touchdown passes that covered 74, 75 and 69 yards against Boise State’s depleted secondary.

It was the first time in Moore’s career that the Broncos trailed at the break.

“They were just trying to play base defense and we tore that apart,” Pachall said.

The Broncos flipped the game on the first play from scrimmage in the second half. Senior linebacker Byron Hout knocked the ball loose in the backfield and senior defensive end Tyrone Crawford scooped and scampered 32 yards for the touchdown.

Moments later, senior tailback D.J. Harper scored on a 3-yard run that gave the Broncos a 28-20 lead.

“I felt like we were in a lot of trouble,” Patterson said, “… but we fought back.”

The Broncos led 35-28 and were on the verge of running out the clock when third-string tailback Drew Wright fumbled. The Frogs recovered with 2:26 left and drove for the touchdown and go-ahead two-point conversion.

“I wasn’t too sure in my mind that we were even going to get a chance to get the ball back and take it back down,” Pachall said. “Once that fumble occurred, I knew we had what it takes to march down the field.”

Boise State, which got the ball at its 40-yard line with 65 seconds left, nearly answered. Moore drove the Broncos into Goodale’s range, but that wasn’t good enough.

“Thank God he missed it for us,’’ Carder said.