LAS VEGAS
Fresno State has scheduled a number of football games against Power Five opponents over the past year, the guarantees helping it keep up with the rising costs of college athletics.
In addition, Fresno State did not secure any revenue from guarantee football games last season and added two non-revenue sports with a budget in the bottom half of the conference, so for it and other institutions scheduling is becoming a concern for the conference.
“We are in a competition,” Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson said Tuesday during his annual address at Media Days. “The first year of the CFP, Boise State won the bowl game and our goal is simply to play minimally in a New Year’s Eve bowl game, one of the CFP games, and in order to do that we can’t be over-scheduled, but we can’t be under-scheduled either.