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Mountain West Conference To Expand and Add Boise State, Fresno and*Nevada? - Mountain West Connection

Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton -- a talk radio host in San Diego -- is reporting huge news out of Washington DC.
These rumors are everywhere out of the nations capital. There are negotiations between the people for the BCS as well as the Mountain West Conference. If the Mountain West wants to get a guaranteed spot in the BCS they must expand. The expansion would include Boise State, Nevada-Reno and Fresno State. Make it a power twelve team conference.
If it were guaranteed that they would get an auto-bid the MWC would pull the trigger in a heartbeat. Interesting that they are talking about expanding to 12 teams, to have a championship game. Maybe ESPN knows about this, and are is negotiations to broadcast the league once they expand? (If they expand) Which maybe could explain all the added publicity that they are giving the league.

Adding Fresno State would help the MWC take the Northern California market, and the Boise State Broncos would certainly add more competition. It's interesting that Nevada is a possibility. Maybe they are looking at them for basketball reasons?

If these rumors are true, look for expansion to happen in the summer of 2010, by July 1st. That is the deadline for the teams to play in the league in 2011, the final year of the BCS evaluation period.
 
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Wow, that is big news if true. I've been saying they should do something like this for a while now. Boise, BYU, Utah, Fresno State, TCU; that's a BCS conference.

I suppose this would mean that there would be one less at-large bid. I wonder if the non-BCS at-large clause would still be in effect.

Interesting...
 
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Zander42;1591147; said:
Wow, that is big news if true. I've been saying they should do something like this for a while now. Boise, BYU, Utah, Fresno State, TCU; that's a BCS conference.

I suppose this would mean that there would be one less at-large bid. I wonder if the non-BCS at-large clause would still be in effect.

Interesting...
It would have to be to give the MAC, CUSA, Sun Belt, and what's left of the WAC an outside shot.
 
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Wow, that would all of a sudden be a much better conference. Not sure how the divisions would be separated to maintain competitive balance. Maybe:

North
Utah
BYU
AFA
Colorado State
Wyoming
Boise State

South
TCU
SDSU
Fresno State
UNLV
Reno
New Mexico

Still has some dead weight at the bottom (in football anyway), but probably as good as the ACC or Big East top to bottom.
 
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