BOISE, Idaho -- Lost in all the record-setting numbers that quarterback Kellen Moore has posted during his career at Boise State is a running game that's been his complement.

It just wasn't that much help in the fourth-ranked Broncos' season opening win over Georgia.

So consider getting running back Doug Martin and the rest of Boise State's running game going one of the priorities when the Broncos return to the field Friday at Toledo.

Martin was held to 57 yards on 24 carries in the opener and Boise State as a team was held to just 129 yards on the ground. While that might seem like a decent total, consider that it's one of the 10 worst running games by a Boise State team since Moore took over as quarterback at the start of the 2008 season.

"We didn't run the ball exactly like we wanted to," Boise State coach Chris Petersen said of the effort two weeks ago in the Georgia Dome. "But we were really proud of how we ran it because we kept slamming it up in there, because if you don't do that and don't have some effectiveness you can't throw it the way we want to throw it."

The Broncos didn't try to overpower Georgia's interior bulk. Instead, they used short passes -- made more effective by Moore's accuracy -- as an extension of their run game.

Half of Moore's 28 completions that day went for less than 10 yards.

But when they did turn to Martin, he was effective at making sure there weren't many negative runs.

Six of Martin's 24 carries against the Bulldogs lost yardage, but most were limited to just 1- or 2-yard losses, many times when Martin was getting hit deep in the backfield.

It's part of the role Martin has accepted and thrived in ever since finally settling into the Broncos backfield during his sophomore season. His runs might not always be made for the highlight reels. But he knows his job is to bull ahead and get what yards he can.