The Notre Dame quarterback position took another hit on Saturday as it was learned that last year's signal caller Everett Golson was no longer enrolled at the institution. What started out as rumors on Twitter on Saturday afternoon was confirmed by Notre Dame on Saturday evening to WNDU-TV. Notre Dame spokesman Dennis Brown, citing […]

A common theme in our staff’s predictions for the 2013 season in the Mountain West was the conference’s surprising depth. That all starts with the guys under center. It’s not a stretch to say the MWC may have the best collection of quarterbacks in the country. There’s productivity for miles, with four returning field generals […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) After spending the last week breaking down the in's and out's of the Mountain West, it's time for the Crystal Ball Run staff to make their conference championship, Player of the Year and Coach of the Year picks! Allen Kenney's Take: All this time spent studying the Mountain West in […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) Looking for a definition of #ThatAwkwardMoment on this Friday morning heading into a holiday weekend? We may have found it at that bastion of football- and moral- excellence known as the University of Notre Dame. That’s because while Brian Kelly was leading the Irish to an 8-5 record during the […]

Boise State is looking for its next feature back with D.J. Harper off to the NFL. (Photo courtesy of USA Today Sports – Brian Losness) In 2012 the Mountain West Conference produced eight runners who topped 1,000 yards on the ground, tied with the Big Ten for second-most among all conferences and trailing only the […]

After a couple of years of uncertainty and shifting membership during the tumultuous conference realignment battles of 2010-2013, the Mountain West Conference finds itself in a position of relative stability these days. With enough football playing members to hold a conference championship game and a new television contract offering more visibility on ESPN (and also […]

The Boise State Broncos will begin the 2013 season exactly as they finished the 2012 season: a date with Washington. The Huskies, the erstwhile leviathan of the top left quadrant of the country, have ceded that throne in the past decade to both Pac-12 foe Oregon and, of course, Boise State. Kudos to Huskies coach […]

Ault leads Nevada before his final game after 28 years at the helm in 2012. (Photo Courtesy – USA Today Sports/Mark Rebilas) We're in the midst of "Mountain West Preview" week here at CBR so it's perhaps only right that the news breaks out of Reno, Nevada that the Wolfpack will honor coaching legend and […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Images) While the Mountain West doesn’t have a true National Championship contender like the American (Louisville) or a catchy nickname like #MACtion, make no mistake, there will be plenty of quality football played when this conference’s teams take the field in 2013. Along with three clubs which finished the 2012 season […]

BCS executive director Bill Hancock has said before that the four-team playoff model that will begin being used in the 2014 season is locked in with four teams through the 12 years of the new format contract. But how long until that playoff pool expands, as many seem to believe is bound to happen at […]