Mountain West Wire

Jeremy and Matt are back to take a first look at Mountain West teams as spring football gets going. The three teams they discuss are Air Force, San Diego State, and San Jose State. All three have different issues, strengths, and weaknesses heading into the 2020 season. Air Force has depth issues at quarterback, a brand new set of wide receivers and some defensive concern. San Jose State does return all of its pass catchers but the big change is at quarterback with Josh Love graduating and in comes Arkansas transfer Nick Starkel to take over. San Diego State has a new coach with Rocky Long retiring and Brady Hoke taking over. There is a new quarterback and the running game needs to be worked as last year was the worst in years.

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Jeremy and Matt are back to take a look at a lot of different topics as we go deeper into the offseason of the college football season. The duo go through coaching changes on the coordinator level like Rocky Long going back to New Mexico and how he can make the team get off to a quicker start with him in charge of the defense.

The NFL Combine is upcoming and we go over a few snubs and expectations, why the NCAA should not hope the U.S. Congress bails them out for name, image and likeness, and finally some takes on part two of national signing day.

They also get into returning production and the first SP+ rankings and make a few tweaks to each of their preseason Mountain West rankings for the 2020 season.

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Jeremy and Matt are back to guide you through the Mountain West football offseason. This latest show begins with the latest coaching hire in the Mountain West which has Todd Graham taking over the Hawaii job as Nick Rolovich has left for the Washington State job. They also get into the transfer portal which is impacting a lot of Mountain West schools, specifically San Diego State landing QB Jack Sears and also Air Force losing multiple key players to the portal.

The wrap the show up talking about the disagreement between Boise State and the Mountain West in regards to the side deal they get for being a superior football program. Now, there is some fighting and the two discuss what is next and what could happen.

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Jeremy and Andrew are back over a far too long of a break to discuss Mountain West hoops. San Diego State is 20-0 and the two discuss the odds of them going undefeated the rest of the season. Then the real conversation starts about who could be the second best team and the two lean toward UNLV but their schedule the rest of the way is not easy. Also, what is going on with Utah State and do they have a chance to land an at-large bid if they win out?

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Matt and are Jeremy are back to talk some offseason Mountain West football. They begin with the latest in coaching changes which include San Diego State's Rocky long stepping down and Brady Hoke taking over. The other move saw Nick Rolovich leave Hawaii for Washington State, plus Rolovich raided the Wyoming defensive staff to add to his own at Washington State.

They also dive into the Boise State vs. Mountain West in regards to the TV deal. Mountain West claimed that this separate deal for Broncos home football games is done after this current deal but Boise State disagrees.

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Jeremy and Matt are back to recap the Mountain West bowl season. Now that both are back they quickly go through the games and along the way nominate players for the all-bowl team for the Mountain West. We get into some vague early 2020 talk surrounding some of the games and also some coaching news within the Mountain West.

Let the offseason begin.

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Jeremy flies solo once again to recap the Cheeze It and Hawaii Bowl, plus he previews the Arizona Bowl between Georgia State and Wyoming. In the bowl recaps it starts with Hawaii earning a 38-34 victory over BYU. The Warriors offense had a huge game throwing the ball from Cole McDonald who was turnover-free in the game. The Warriors defense also stood out with three turnovers of their own. There was some technology issues in the game that could have made things a bit different but the bowl game was lacking the proper tech.

Air Force vs. Washington State lived up to the hype with the Falcons running at will and the Cougars offense slinging the ball quite well. Air Force had a classic 20-play, 12-plus minute drive that went over the first and second quarters for a touchdown. The Falcons defense also made a few big plays by stopping Washington State on multiple fourth downs.

We also preview the Arizona Bowl between Wyoming and Georgia State which will feature strength vs. strength with the Cowboys defense vs. the Panthers offense and vice versa with weakness vs. weakness. Also, there is some confusing information regarding Wyoming's starting quarterback.

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Jeremy previews the two Mountain West bowl games this week which is the Hawaii Bowl on Christmas Eve which features old WAC foes BYU vs. Hawaii. This is an interesting game as the Cougars are good enough to get the win over Hawaii but the Warriors offense, if clicking, should be able to take care of business. The other game is a few days later with Air Force taking on Washington State. This game will be very interesting due to the contrasting styles of a run-option attack going up against a pass-heavy offense.

Jeremy goes solo to recap the first three games of the bowl season which include the Frisco, Las Vegas, and New Mexico Bowls. Well, they all did not go as planned with the league going 1-2 in those games with only San Diego State coming out on top in New Mexico. Utah State's offense showed up in the Frisco Bowl for the most part with a few miscues but the defense could not tackle and gave up an absurd 51 points. Boise State played one of its worst games in a very long time and had its poorest bowl performance ever in the 38-7 loss to Washington. There is a lot of second-guessing for head coach Bryan Harsin in how he got ready for this game and specifically at the quarterback position.

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the first three Mountain West bowl games which include the Frisco Bowl between Utah State and Kent State, Las Vegas Bowl which features Washington and Boise State, and the New Mexico Bowl which has San Diego State vs. Central Michigan. They pick games and ponder if the Mountain West could possibly go undefeated in the bowl slate. The duo also recap all the coaching hires within the league as well.

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