MWC Connection · Jun 21, 2023
Peak Perspective: 2023 Mountain West SP+ rankings
With spring football in the rearview mirror and summer officially here, college football fans cannot know we are heading into one of the final stages of the long off-season. Change is on the horizon for the Mountain West in 2023. The divisional format is no more, no more West/Mountain divisions. There will be plenty of new faces on the field as well, and as a result ESPN’s Bill Connelly decided to refresh his 2023 SP+ rankings. Bill’s content is paywalled, so I’ll keep the details with as little meat on the bone as possible. You should subscribe, I can attest, Bill’s work is one of many, many cool things on ESPN+.
Anyway, the rankings. Bill notes his methodology with the following passage: