For nearly a decade, there was no debate.
The Mountain West was the best non-Power 5 football conference in the nation.
By the official rankings, it held that position for seven straight seasons in the BCS format. But over the last five years, after massive realignment shook up the NCAA, things have changed and it hasn’t been all that good for the MW.
During his de facto state of the conference address at the MW media days last month, commissioner Craig Thompson, who has been in charge of the league since it was formed in 1999, delivered the news.