A ranked win over UCLA in basketball, which honestly wasn't as close as the score showed, and a road win over SDSU in football. Gotta celebrate the moments when you get em fellas.

It would be nice to see what school people are talking about with a user flair.

The TBM guys interviewed the AD of Tarleton State. He confirmed that conversations have occurred and Tarleton State is very interested in the MWC. If you want to learn more, the talk about the university, the athletic program, the facilities and of course the Mountain West!

Check it out!

https://youtu.be/Iiexao4TMhQ?si=ARQsaE0NcBp-X6XS

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Definitely continuous interesting news, especially on the Big Mountain Podcast again recently and from the Montana Athletic Director on the Montana podcast after the Big Sky meetings.....

What's your thought on a realistic and/or ideal end state after the Pac 12 departures?

While it has sometime seemed IMO quite unlikely and undesired recently, there seems to be some chatter about the FCS “Power 4”. With Montana's comments recently and reports about all 4 considering a move if all together, I do think there easily could be a bunch of these FCS schools able to make the jump and now have some desire to come up. I think this could possibly happen now....

Hawaii
San Jose St
Nevada
UNLV
New Mexico
Montana
Montana St

** Utah Valley

Wyoming
Air Force
UTEP
North Dakota St
South Dakota St
Tarleton St
$ Northern Illinois

** GCU

That would be an ideal rebuild IMO, with a solid mix of getting back into markets (UT, TX, AZ, etc) in most sports, expanding regionally, getting in some big/new markets, enabling the conference to sponsor more sports, and bringing in some universities with athletic prowess and decently known national brands at the FCS level for football and also in basketball. Also look at UC Davis if interest and/or Sacramento State especially, if they don’t make it into PAC 12. Will it happen? No idea. 😉😁. But I think expanding this much is wise, especially if UNLV or others may decide to move on in 5 years when the GoR expires. 🤷🏼‍♂️

https://www.mwcconnection.com/2024/10/30/24220828/mountain-west-football-underrated-players-2024-teams-nick-nash-chase-wilson

Bob Thompson went on the Big Mountain show and talked about the MWC additions and timeline.

https://youtu.be/UL1eK5as3-w?si=Tqky8MPlnYLcaAqk

https://www.mwcconnection.com/2024/10/23/24271506/mountain-west-football-2024-mid-season-grades-teams-conference

UNLV

@ Houston W 27-7 -- 2-5 (wins over Rice and TCU)

vs Utah Tech W 72-14

@ Kansas W 23-20 -- 2-5 (only FBS win is Houston)

vs Fresno St W 59-14 -- 4-3 (FBS wins: Nevada, New Mexico, New Mexico State)

vs Syracuse L 44-41 -- 5-1 (only loss to Stanford)

@ Utah State W 50-34

@ Oregon St W 33-25 -- 4-3 (FBS wins: SDSU, Purdue, Colorado State)

Boise State

@ GA Southern W 56-45 -- 5-2 (other loss to 18 Ole Miss)

@ Oregon L 37-34 -- 7-0 Undefeated #1 in AP

vs Portland St W 56-14

vs Washington St W 45-24 -- 6-1 (best win over Texas Tech)

vs Utah State W 62-30

@ Hawai'i W 28-7 -- 2-5 (no FBS wins)

I wanted to do some manual comparison of the two teams playing in a defacto CCG this Friday. Discarding Utah State (although since it was road for UNLV maybe thats wrong to do?)

BoiseState has played one fewer game. BoiseState just had a Bye. UNLV is at Home.

• UNLV total opponent win/loss 17/17

• BoiseState total opponent win/loss 20/8

Surprised they haven't had talks with them yet, they have the money, but their mediocre sports performance and small stadium may be somewhat of a factor

https://www.mwcconnection.com/2024/10/16/24259951/mountain-west-football-2024-season-transfer-portal-part-1