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The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Running Backs
We have reached the point in the offseason where spring football has concluded and fans are starting to have a better understanding of what their team’s depth chart may look like. With that, we are going to start taking a look at specific position groups across the PAC 12 and Mountain West. With our coverage […]
Mountain West Softball Tournament Preview: Round 1
The 2026 NCAA softball regular season is finally over. After a crazy three months of play, six teams in the Mountain West Conference have reached the summit—or rather, a little bit below the summit of the Sierra Mountains. This year’s MW Tournament is being hosted in Reno, Nevada, by the reigning regular-season conference champion Wolf […]
Mountaintop View 5-5-26
EJ Colson Named as Miners’ QB1 There will be no quarterback drama entering the summer for the UTEP Miners. EJ Colson, the transfer from Incarnate Word, is QB1 in El Paso. Colson is well traveled, having played at UCF prior to ICW and now El Paso. Pokes Insider: Tight ends spring review Ryan Thorburn of […]
Mountain West Connection Baseball Power Rankings: Week 12
My oh my, did the Mountain West have a field day to open May. SDSU reclaimed their top spot in the conference, sending Nevada out of the top seeds to the point where their placement is all out of sorts. Air Force handled business against New Mexico, maintaining their second place in the standings. San […]
MWCConnection Recruiting Roundup 5-4-26. Mountain West May Team Rankings.
It’s another week of the Recruiting Roundup. As we get into May, official visits will be occurring by the end of the month and lasting into June. Teams are continuing to load up on June OVs, which will make for a huge recrutiing month. Stay tuned for that. For this week, teams were busy in […]
Mountaintop View 5-4-26. SDSU Spring Game, All-MW Team, Football Win Totals, Softball Champs, USA Today Top 25.
It’s Monday, and college baseball and softball are getting closer to tournament time. Also, there is always football news happening. But our coverage is still going strong. Check out our original coverage and what we can find from the World Wide Web below. All-MW Teams post-spring Chris Murray takes a shot at compiling an all-conference […]
AZTEC BASEBALL ROCKETS TO TOP OF MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE PLAY
San Diego State basking in the light of a ten game winning streak. After dropping three to New Mexico, the Aztecs have bounced back with ten wins and are leading the conference. April was showing signs of cloudy doom for the Aztecs baseball as they just finished on the tail end of a three game […]
Mountain West Reacts Results: Week 0, Five years of eligibility.
This post is brought to you by FanDuel, proud partner of SBNation. Week 0 is a good idea? All signs are pointing to the season being moved up to Week 0 for all football teams in the near future. Those who voted in this poll are in support of the move. Will this move allow all […]
Weekend Walkup: Top teams battle for key positioning amid tight race for the lead
Each week, we here at Mountain West Connection will briefly preview every series going on in the conference, detailing how each team is going into the series and a key item to note that we feel will dictate the winner. Afterwards, if there are any non-conference series going on, we will go through each series […]
Potential 2027 NFL Draft Picks
With the 2026 NFL Draft now in the rear-view mirror, it’s worth taking a glance at potential 2027 NFL Draft prospects. As we know, players from teams in conferences like the Mountain West and Pac-12 aren’t getting drafted at the same frequency they used to before the transfer portal era. However, there are still a […]
Week zero for all? The pros, cons & real fallout of college football’s potential calendar shift
If college football truly shifts to a full-scale Week 0 model for every FBS team, it would be one of the biggest structural changes since the College Football Playoff expansion. And like most NCAA decisions, the ripple effects would stretch far beyond simply kicking off a week earlier. College football leaders have discussed moving all […]
Friday Five: Top 5 Mountain West Football Head Coaches
Welcome to the beginning of May! The off-season continues. The Mountain West is set to split this summer with the “departing five” leaving to create the reformed Pac-12. The Mountain West has added the likes of North Dakota State, Northern Illinois, and UTEP to fill the gaps. We at the Mountain West Connection intend to […]
Mountaintop View 5-1-26: Eligibility Changes, New Mexico and Utah State, UCONN/PAC 12, Transfer, Spring Football
Clarity on Eligibility is Coming Soon Two Elite Programs Agree to Keep Their Rivalry Alive UCONN to the PAC 12? Does It Make Sense? Keeping Track of PAC 12 Transfers Our Friends at the Spokesman have you covered on all the latest transfer news. Post-Spring Predictions for PAC 12 Football Programs Are the Broncos the […]
Grand Canyon Softball Claims 2026 Mountain West Regular-Season Crown
The Grand Canyon Lopes defeated the CSU Rams 10-5 on Thursday night for their 46th win of the season. A few minutes afterwards, the UNLV Rebels completed an upset victory over the Nevada Wolf Pack, locking up the regular-season Mountain West title for the Lopes in their inagural season in the conference. This title is […]
Mountain West Softball Tournament Watch: Week 13, 2026
Entering the 13th and final week of the 2026 Mountain West Softball season, every single seed in the conference tournament is still up for grabs. Only one team has been eliminated from tournament contention (San Jose State), but not every team in the conference can possibly earn every seed available. To dispell some of the […]
Group of 6 playoff spot: Champion first or just the highest-ranked survivor?
For years, the Group of 6’s playoff path was clean, at least conceptually: win your conference, stack your résumé and hope your league champion stood tallest among the rest. Now, college football may be inching toward something cloudier. As the CFP’s next format takes shape, one of biggest debates is whether the Group of 6 […]
UConn to the PAC 12: the Good and the Bad
With spring football over, we have reached the slow season for college football news. As a result, this is usually the time of the year when realignment rumors start to pick up. One of the hottest rumors currently out there is the possibility of the University of Connecticut potentially joining the PAC-12. Would it be […]
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Murray: My preseason All-Mountain West football first and second teams entering 2026 Now that the NFL Draft is in the rearview mirror, we approach the next stage of the off-season: magazine/preseason projections season! Chris Murray of NevadaSportsNet posts his early All-Mountain West teams. This is all going to take some getting used to. Pokes Insider: […]
College Baseball Tournament Projections: April 29th.
Mountain West (and beyond) NCAA baseball tournament projections will be new every week leading up to the College World Series. This seems like the natural step to continue our baseball coverage, and mirrors the bowl projections and bracketology we do with our football and basketball coverage, respectively. For those who aren’t familiar, 64 teams make […]
Ahead of year two, Jason Eck and Lobos ready for youth movement with ‘26 recruits
ALBUQUERQUE – “You thought you were going to Prom and now you’re in these workouts with Coach Heim, and he’s getting after you pretty good.” Trading in tuxedos for workout gear was a reality for some Lobos during this spring practice session, as they graduated early from high school to join Jason Eck’s football team […]
2026 Mountain West Softball Power Rankings: Week 12
With the conclusion of Week 12, there is only one week remaining in the 2026 NCAA Softball season. Entering the crucial final week of the season, I figured that I would switch things up a bit. The first article of the week will be the power rankings, and the second article will be a scenario-spotting […]
Peak Perspective: 2026 Mountain West NFL Draft Winners and Losers
Reviewing this past weekend’s NFL draft, here’s a short piece categorizing Mountain West (and Pac-12) related things into winners and losers. This clearly isn’t an exhaustive list, but it does feature some of the trends and observations from the draft. Winners Chris Johnson The star cornerback out of San Diego State was able to rise […]
Mountain West Reacts 4-27-26: Week 0 Season, Eligibility Rule
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in MWC fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.
Mountaintop View 4-29-26: March Madness Expansion, Isaiah Stevens, Transfer Portal
March Madness to expand to 76. The NCAA is set to expand the tournament to 76. Beginning pretty soon too, like 2027 soon. CSU creates award named after Isaiah Stevens Colorado State basketball icon Isaiah Stevens will now have an award named after him the school announced on Tuesday. Eight former Wyoming Cowboys sign NFL […]
Three Mountain West Players Selected in NFL Draft! Chris Johnson goes in the 1st Round! Top UDFA from All 12 Teams! Overall MW draft trends! HP Ep. #152 OUT NOW!
Welcome back everyone to the Hike’s Peak Podcast, thank you for coming back to the mountain! The 2026 NFL Draft is in the books, and we have lots of Mountain West players officially starting their professional journeys. We’ll start by going over the three alumni who heard their names called during the event, including San […]
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