mwc Stories - BCS Evolution
Three Lessons From BYU Going Independent
Back in June, Utah got a Pac-10 invitation while BYU didn't get so much as a phone call from that conference's leadership. At that point, the leaders at BYU must have decided that they needed to do so...
BYU is out, so now what for the BCS AQ picture?
The BCS will use the membership on December 4th, 2011 to determine where each team counts in the next evaluation. Fresno State, Nevada and Colorado are not cleared yet to move by then. They also don't...
2010 College Football Conference Championship Predictions
A week from now, the Georgia Bulldogs will have a game under their belts, so, with college football season virtually upon us, it is high time I got down to the serious business of making some predicti...
CHAOS: "Mega Conference" Merger? Houston Cougars to the Mountain West?
Chaos. That's the only real way to describe what's happening right now. Still, no concrete reports, just a rapidly increasing amount of movement between Conference USA and the Mountain Wes...
Summary of the MWC, BYU, WAC Fight
When did this start? June. BYU has always fancied itself as a candidate for joining a major conference. However, the Pac-10/Big 12 fight back in June passed with Utah getting a Pac-10 invite and BYU n...
The Biggest Winner Of BYU Going Independent? The Big East
Sure, the Mountain West still has TCU and newcomer Boise State, but make no mistake, the conference is a lot weaker today with the news that BYU is almost-certainly going independent for football.&n...
MWC May Still Get its Automatic Bid
With the death of the Pac-16 dream (for now), it's likely that Larry Scott will settle on inviting Utah to come play for his conference to even things out at 12 member institutions. As a result, many ...
Conference Expansion Kaput; SB Nation Atlanta Rollout Party Still On!
All right, that's a week of my life I'm never going to get back. We were all geared up for radical realignment, and what we got was the Colorado Buffaloes joining the Pac-10, the Nebraska Cornhuskers ...
MWC Expands: Boise State Jumps From WAC
Someone in Bristol must have read my kvetching about ESPN not being on top of the expansion game (yeah, right), because Joe Schad broke the news that Boise State will go to the MWC...
Fiesta Bowl Set to Weather Conference Realignment.
I had an opportunity to talk with the Fiesta Bowl PR Director Andy Bagnato yesterday about the implications of conference expansion on the Fiesta Bowl. The Fiesta Bowl is one of the four BCS bowls and...
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