In recent seasons, the Mountain West has developed a reputation of being a football conference that is full of good teams, but has lacked one true dominant team. It can be argued that the MW is a deeper conference that it gets credit for, and is doing so again this season.
Just because no team is in the driver’s seat for a NY6 spot at this point in the season, it doesn’t mean some teams in the conference aren’t playing good football. In fact, two teams are currently in the running to be the top mid-major team this season.