November 27, 2023 |
The Mountain West Championship will be decided this Saturday in Las Vegas between UNLV and Boise State.
Despite firing head coach Andy Avalos in mid-November less than a year after he was named Mountain West Coach of the Year, the Broncos made it to the championship game.
Boise State, San José State, and UNLV all finished the regular season with identical 6-2 MW records. Since all three teams did not face each other head-to-head as part of the mini round-robin tiebreak, and no team was ranked in the latest College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings, the three-way tie was broken by computer rankings from Anderson & Hester, Colley Matrix, Massey and Wolfe.
When the computer was done calculating, it picked Boise State to play UNLV.
The computer was necessary to figure it all out after San Jose knocked off UNLV on Saturday, producing a three-way tie at the top for the first time in league history. The MWC eliminated divisions this season and decided to go with the two teams with the best conference records.
The Broncos versus the Rebels is set for 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon to decide the Mountain West crown.
In 2023, the Mountain West has seven bowl-eligible teams and is one of six leagues with at least half of its teams with five or fewer losses.
