Tag: Mountain West Conference

• College Football Coach Hire Grades: Nevada

  Nevada Wolfpack: Jeff Choate Why the job was open: Nevada is known for the pistol offense, Colin Kaepernick and the man who orchestrated it, former HC Chris Ault. Ault’s success in recent history made a lot of folks forget that this is a tough job, but it’s starting to become more apparent in recent years…

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  February 29, 2024

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• College Football Coach Hire Grades: Wyoming

  Wyoming Cowboys: Jay Sawvel Why the job was open: A decade ago Craig Bohl was hired to take over Wyoming after building a FCS Powerhouse at North Dakota State. He won 3 titles in a row for the Bison and took on the new challenge of getting Wyoming football back to being competitive. A decade…

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  February 23, 2024

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• College Football Coach Hire Grades: Boise State

  Boise State Broncos: Spencer Danielson Why the job was open: Boise State considers itself to be the premier job in the Mountain West and as a result they expect to content for conference championships regularly. The Andy Avalos era wasn’t a smooth one to say the least. They played for a Mountain West championship in…

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  February 16, 2024

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• College Basketball Roundup: Mountain West Conference

  Headline: The Mountain West is awesome this year, but can the conference get 6 bids?? This seems possible with how many great teams are in the conference. San Diego State is as good as usual, Colorado State, Utah State and Nevada all looked great out of conference and picked up nice wins. New Mexico and…

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  January 24, 2024

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• 2024 College Football Bowl Previews (Dec 30th)

  Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl: Penn State Nittany Lions (10-2) vs Mississippi Rebels (10-2) What you need to know: Both programs find themselves in the same spot. Wanting to break through and beat the teams in the upper echelon but can’t even get close to doing so. Yet it’s opposite sides of the ball holding each one…

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  December 16, 2023

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• 2024 College Football Bowl Previews (Dec 26th)

  Quicklane Bowl: Bowling Green Falcons (7-5) vs Minnesota Golden Gophers (5-7) What you need to know: Bowling Green is a team that loves chaos during their games. The Falcons lead the country in turnovers gained (27) and they’re 4th in turnovers lost (19)! BG will be without their star corner Jalen Husky who hit the…

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  December 13, 2023

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• 2024 College Football Bowl Previews (Dec 23rd pt. 2)

  68 Ventures Bowl: South Alabama Jaguars (6-6) vs Eastern Michigan Eagles (6-6) What you need to know: South Alabama is a very odd team. When things work, they are scary. The Jaguars beat Oklahoma State 33-7, UL Monroe 55-7 and Southern Miss 55-3, yet the Jaguars also lost to Central Michigan and Louisiana at home,…

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  December 12, 2023

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• 2024 College Football Bowl Previews (Dec 23rd pt. 1)

  10th Anniversary Camellia Bowl: Northern Illinois Huskies (6-6) vs Arkansas State Red Wolves (6-6) What you need to know: These are a couple wild teams who weren’t consistent this year. Northern Illinois has wins over Boston College and Ohio, but losses to Southern Illinois, Tulsa and Ball State. Arkansas State opened the year losing 73-0…

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  December 12, 2023

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