The Mountain West is growing, the Western Athletic Conference is in danger of being whittled away and BYU is considering going it alone -- at least in football. The West went wild Wednesday in the latest round of conference shuffling in college sports. Fresno State and Nevada ended a day of fast-paced change by accepting invitations to join the Mountain West Conference, which has added three prominent members of the Western Athletic Conference in the past two months. Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5474774
Utah St. Athletic Director, Scott Barnes. Apparently, before Fresno St. and Nevada received invitations from the Mountain West, Utah St. got the first and quickly rejected it. In their eyes, they assumed they'd be strong with 8 members and BYU joining for non-football sports. Utah St. never considered that other WAC schools would take the invitation. Ouch. http://www.utahstateaggies.com/genrel/081910aab.html
MWC - CUSA to play for a BCS autobid- possibly The latest development involving the non-BcS leagues started this morning with a report from the Austin American-Statesman. According to the paper, the Mountain West and what was later confirmed to be Conference USA discussed during a previously scheduled meeting the possibility of the champions from the two leagues meeting in a title game, with the winner gaining an automatic BcS berth. This so-called play-in game idea has since been confirmed by Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports.com, with part of the thought behind this concept being, obviously, to potentially grab a guaranteed BcS berth while also serving as an attempt to coax BYU into remaining in the MWC http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...scussing-play-in-game-for-bcs-spot/?related=1
