The Mountain West Conference was founded in 1999, and has had as few as eight and as many as 12 football teams with seasons in there with nine and 10. In all, that’s 17 seasons of college football and 156 teams taking the field.
Only six of those teams opened Mountain West play with conference road games in back-to-back weeks, and Fresno State this season will do it for the second year in a row.
Only six of those teams started Mountain West play with three road games in a four-week span of conference games, but the Bulldogs this season will do that for the second time in three years.