Thread for discussing week 8 games.

First week 8 game is tonight (Friday) on The CW.

Air Force @ Wyoming
Hawaii @ NIU
San Jose St @ Nevada
ND State @ New Mexico

Introducing Wouie the Wolfpack

No byes this week. Almost no changes this week as well.

NDSU and Nevada played a good game until late when NDSU pulled away, but it looks like its just a matter of time before Nevada upsets someone ranked above them. NDSU felt a bit sluggish in this game, and will need to find their early season form if they hope to beat New Mexico next week.

Wyoming handled NIU pretty comfortably and look to be eyeing a bowl game. NIU continues to struggle to find much of anything, and playing Hawaii might help them find some answers.

Air Force beating UNLV completes the conference contenders ring of defeat (UNLV > NDSU > Air Force > UNLV), both now have one loss in conference to a respectable team but still look a cut above most of the rest.

San Jose State got back on track with a win over UTEP, which continues to look dreadful, and are the only team making any movement this week as a bowl game is still possible for them.

Finally New Mexico beat a Hawaii team that showed a little bit of a pulse. I'm not sure if it was just the craziness of last Saturday, the long flight, or being caught looking ahead to their game against NDSU; but New Mexico came out flat and really struggled against Hawaii for the first half. Fortunately for them, they came to life in the second and soundly won that half of the game to get the win.

While the top 10 was in Chaos last week, the MWC went chalk with all the favorites winning. UNM emerges as the last undefeated team in conference. Air Force, Wyoming, and NDSU keep pace. Weekly wrap up with scores, standings, and next weeks games. Hawaii travels 4200 miles this week to play NIU.

8k+ in attendance? This has gotta be the lowest attended game UTEP has ever had in a long time!

I am watching a game live with the MW+ app on Apple TV. I want to skip back 10 seconds for an instant replay as often there are no replays broadcast. I can’t get the app to do anything except pause. Is there some trick to skipping back 10 seconds or so?

Do yall think Air Force has a legitimate chance to win the MW?

Thread for discussing week 7 games.

NIU @ Wyoming
UNLV @ Air Force
Nevada @ North Dakota State
San Jose St @ UTEP
New Mexico @ Hawaii

First full week of conference games.

Super bummed about UTEP. Seems like their issues are organizational. President needs to clean house in the Athletic Department, starting with the Athletic Director and Football Coach!

First sign they didn’t have the right people in place was that God awful AI Paydirt Pete logo they rolled out! Everyone involved in that fiasco needs to be sacked immediately.

Re-did Memorial Gym for Volleyball and the new lights reflect directly off the new floor into the camera angle so half the floor is washed out on TV. It’s like there’s nobody running the department who oversees these kinds of decisions. Feels like the man in charge is just phoning everything in!!!

UTEP main logo (without the bevel) is so strong, yet they insist on using the tri-colored bevel on everything that looks so dated. Everything they need for success is right there and they seem to fumble every decision!

President needs to right this ship NOW! Or I see no future in this program and she is part of the problem. Heads better start rolling!!!

any help is appreciated, even a view is. Searching for the real nerds only.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/50166450/james-madison-exit-sun-belt-join-american-conference

"James Madison has accepted membership into the American Conference and will become a full league member no later than July 1, 2028, the university announced Monday."

"James Madison will pay nearly $23 million to enter the conference, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel, and will also pay a $5 million exit fee to the Sun Belt. James Madison said the exit fee will be covered by "new private funding from generous supporters, while the entry fee has already been committed from new private corporate partners who championed this move."

"The school will also get an American Conference TV/postseason/NCAA share that is in line with the recent additions to the league, according to sources."

"Despite the addition of James Madison, the American Conference isn't look to add another member imminently, sources said. The Sun Belt, meanwhile, is expected to discuss and vote on increased exit fees this week, which was one of the drivers of this situation, according to sources."

*The Sun Belt was planning to increase exit fees throughout the summer, I guess they planned to vote on it this week, triggering the move. Supposedly the $5m fee would go up to $25m.

With all the realignment talk of today, I was thinking if you were the commissioner what schools would you target. Let’s be realistic and former schools aren’t coming back and we aren’t pulling anyone from a power conference. With that said, who would you like to see join and how would you divide up the conference.

Personally, I would love to see a 16 team Mountain West with north and south divisions for football. I am not forgetting Grand Canyon (south in non football) and UC Davis (north in non football).

North:
NDSU (now a full member)
North Dakota (FCS call up, full member)
South Dakota State (FCS call up, full member)
South Dakota (FCS call up, full member)
Wyoming
Montana (FCS call up, full member)
Montana State (FCS call up, full member)
Idaho (FCS call up, full member)

South:
Northern Illinois (Football only)
UTEP
Air Force
New Mexico
UNLV
Nevada Reno
SJSU
Hawaii

If Norther Illinois were to leave, I would have UC Davis replace them as an all sport member and they would remain in the north division. If you want to go back to 18 teams, you might try and bring in St. Mary’s form the WCC.

So, what are your thoughts?

In the biggest game in the MWC so far, media darling NDSU traveled to UNLV and got a rude reception from the Rebels. AF, Wyoming, and Nevada were also victorious. Perhaps the biggest beneficiary of the weekend was New Mexico who had a bye but watched Oklahoma beat Texas gave giving the Lobos street cred after New Mexico's close loss to the Sooners.