{"id":332,"date":"2017-06-28T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2017-06-28T14:53:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:53:25","slug":"2017-mountain-west-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/2017-mountain-west-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Mountain West Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mountain West has had two down years as Boise St has taken a step back and no one else has stepped up to stake their claim as the nation’s Cinderella. Expect more of the same this year. There are some quality teams, but none that stand out. Should be a tight 3 way battle in the Mountain division and San Diego St should have no issues winning the West Division.<\/p>\n

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For each Conference we will have the Simplified Football predictions (record) with the Projected Win-Shares and rating of each team next to it. We will also have Bowl Projections for each conference.<\/p>\n

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MWC\u00a0Predictions:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Mountain<\/em><\/p>\n

Team \u2013 Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n

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  1. Boise State – 8-4 (6-2) \u00a0\/ \u00a06.57 (4.9) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.61<\/li>\n
  2. Wyoming – 9-3 (6-2) \u00a0\/ \u00a07.13 (4.73) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.47<\/li>\n
  3. Colorado St – 8-4 (6-2) \u00a0\/ \u00a07.2 (5.2) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.62<\/li>\n
  4. Utah St – 6-6 (4-4) \u00a0\/ \u00a05.42 (3.87) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.23<\/li>\n
  5. New Mexico – 5-7 (3-5) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.61 (2.95) \u00a0\/ \u00a02.79<\/li>\n
  6. Air Force – 4-8 (2-6) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.23 (2.73) \u00a0\/ \u00a02.82<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    West<\/em><\/p>\n

    Team \u2013 Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n

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    1. San Diego St – 8-4 (6-2) \u00a0\/ \u00a06.89 (4.98) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.51<\/li>\n
    2. Fresno St – 5-7 (4-4) \u00a0\/ \u00a05.41 (4.11) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.36<\/li>\n
    3. Nevada – 5-7 (4-4) \u00a0\/ \u00a05.46 (3.83) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.14<\/li>\n
    4. San Jose St – 4-8 (3-5) \u00a0\/ \u00a05-41 (3.98) \u00a0\/ \u00a03.28<\/li>\n
    5. UNLV – 4-8 (2-6 ) \u00a0\/ \u00a05.08 (3.48) \u00a0\/ \u00a02.90<\/li>\n
    6. Hawaii – 4-8 (2-6) \u00a0\/ \u00a04.67 (3.24) \u00a0\/ \u00a02.90<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Boise St wins the Mountain West courtesy of a Tie-Breaker over CSU and Wyoming. San Diego St wins the West easily.<\/p>\n

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      Championship game \u2013\u00a0Boise St beats San Diego St in the champ game.<\/p>\n

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      That makes 5 bowl teams for the\u00a0MWC<\/p>\n

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      Las Vegas Bowl – Boise State<\/p>\n

      Arizona Bowl – San Diego St<\/p>\n

      New Mexico Bowl – Colorado St<\/p>\n

      Idaho Potato Bowl – Wyoming<\/p>\n

      Hawaii Bowl – Utah St<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The Mountain West has had two down years as Boise St has taken a step back and no one else has stepped up to stake their claim as the nation’s Cinderella. Expect more of the same this year. There are some quality teams, but none that stand out. Should be a tight 3 way battle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,119,100,90,117,91,120,115,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}