The New Mountian West Conference

Alright now its time for me to begin what will be a 5 part series. I have taken all Non-BCS teams and re-worked the Conferences to be a bit more regional in some cases, with an eye towards creating the strongest Conferences possible. I have created 5 new Conferences, 3 were reworked (Mountain West, Mid-American, Western Athletics) and 2 brand new Conferences (Gulf Coast Conference and the Mid-8 Conference). So each night for the next 5 days I will unviel the new conferences that I created.

I will start tonight with what in my mind would be the strongest of the new Conferences, the Mountain West. The new MWC would become a power conference and a BCS conference in my mind based on the play recently of most teams in it. Currently in the MWC in 2008 are these teams:

Air Force, BYU, Colorado State, New Mexico, San Diego State, TCU, UNLV, Utah and Wyoming.

It is a strong conference as it is right now. Utah obviously is a really strong team the past 4-5 years and proved so by winning the Tostitos Bowl 35 - 7 over Pittsburg in 2005. TCU has been another extremely strong Non-BCS team, and of course BYU has surged recently. Air Force is always a good team as well. As of this moment the MWC has 3 teams in the top 25, #7 Utah, #17 BYU and #18 TCU. The Mountain West has turned out a 6-1 record this year against the PAC-10.

SO...here it is my NEW Mountain West Conference...

In the Mountain West East Division:

Air Force, Colorado State, New Mexico, New Mexico State, TCU and Wyoming.

In the Mountain West West Division:

Boise State, BYU, Fresno State, Idaho, Utah, and Utah State.


The additions of Boise State and Fresno State bring in some power to the Mountain West Conference from traditional Non-BCS powerhouses. Idaho, Utah State and New Mexico State were also added from the old WAC Conference to provide natural in conference rivalries that should help the programs grow and intensify the regional rivalries. In a matter of a few years the three teams programs could be up to par with most lower-mid teams from any other BCS Conference. Taking a look at the new MWC you see that it has now 4 ranked teams, #7 Utah, #9 Boise State, #17 BYU and #18 TCU. Lets not forget Fresno State, they are usually quite a tough opponent, beating Rugters in New Jersey this year, and nearly upsetting Wisconsin in Fresno. Granted looking back neither of those are very impressive games NOW but at the time they were hailed as HUGE games, and lets also not forget that Fresno plays extremely tough in Bowl Games.

So this new Conference brings a more regionalized Conference and intensifies in-State Rivalries, at the same time it brings more power into the Conference. The new MWC would have 2 teams in the BCS top ten. The Big Ten has 1 (Penn State), PAC-10 has 1 (USC), ACC has 0, Big East has 0. In the BCS top 25 the new MWC would have 4 teams. The Big East has 2 teams (Pitt - 21, Cincy -22), ACC has 3 (Wake - 24, FSU - 19, NC - 16). With the newly reworked MWC you'd have to say they would become a BCS Conference....also note I did away with Independents so I moved Notre Dame to the Big Ten getting rid of the silly "Notre Dame has to go to a BCS if they are good enough" clause.


Alright so thats the new Mountain West...tomorrow is the new Mid-American Conference! Now enjoy this video of the 2008 MWC Preview highlighting all the teams. (Note in MY new MWC San Diego St and UNLV are dropped).