Mountain West Wire

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the second half of the conference and provide some previews and adjusted record projections as he do this for the second time. We give records for Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State, San Jose State, Utah State and Wyoming. There are some surprising record projections from both of us and they are good as well as not so good records which we do feel about picking...

Jeremy and Andrew are back to start up their preview series for the upcoming college basketball season which will be very odd, weird, fun, and unique. They go over some of the latest changes to the start of the season and requirements. Then they get into their team previews where they discuss Air Force and Boise State. They get into projections, lineups, and expectations for each team. Learn more...

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the 2020 San Diego State Football team. The Aztecs are one of many teams in the league with a new head coach in Brady Hoke, who is being promoted from within after Rocky Long stepped down. The big questions for San Diego State's offense is finding a new starting quarterback and what running back will step up. There are options at both positions and players with...

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the 2020 Fresno State football season. The Bulldogs have a new head coach in Kalen DeBoer but he is no stranger to Fresno State fans as he was the offensive coordinator during the 2018-19 seasons which saw Fresno State go to a pair of Mountain West title games. The offense will have a new quarterback which should be better than last year in the race to replace J...

Jeremy and Matt are back to give out their predictions with the new Mountain West schedule that was recently released and is now an eight-game schedule. They go alphabetical and go through the first six teams and give some news about each team through fall camp so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview Air Force's opening season win over Navy which featured plenty of new talent to look for this year at quarterback in Haaziq Daniels and running back Brad Roberts in the 40-7 win. They also go over some news like the Hawaii Bowl dropping out this year, Gary Andersen's comments on opt-outs, San Jose State practice location, and the initial schedule coming out for...

Matt and Jeremy are back to preview the 2020 college football season and the first team we are talking about from the Mountain West is the Colorado State Rams. The duo go through what a new coaching staff means for the Rams with Steve Addazio in charge coming over from Boston College. Will his run-first offense work well with a Colorado State offense that is poised to be pass-heavy? They go throug...

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the first Mountain West game of the year which is Air Force vs. Navy on Saturday, Oct. 3, and a full three weeks before the Mountain West begins its play. We breakdown this game which is quite interesting since there are about 30 players from the Falcons that are taking "turn backs" which means they will not be enrolled this season in able to play in 2021. The m...

Jeremy and Matt are back to chat about how the Mountain West made the announcement that college football is back and the league will play an eight-game schedule starting on Oct. 24. There are a lot of unknowns like what will the schedule look like over the eight games and when it will be announced. Air Force is going to play Army and Navy which is leading to the real possibility of Boise State pla...

Matt and Jeremy are back to discuss the latest in Mountain West football and that includes Air Force officially scheduling a game against Navy, San Diego State relocating for one, maybe two seasons over 100 miles away, and the Mountain West possibly starting up football this fall on Oct. 24. There are a lot of questions as to what changed the league's mind this week to possibly start playing in a...

Jeremy and Matt are back to go through a few Mountain West football topics. The Mountain West released a vague letter of words about returning to sports and it seems that for football, those games will return in January. Air Force is teasing everyone with maybe playing Commander-in-Chief games. Finally, Will the AAC's success which could include multiple New Year's Six game be seen as legitimate w...

Jeremy and Matt are back to talk some Mountain West football and what things the two will miss the most about the year. Besides everything, the two discuss the games and storylines that are not going to happen this fall and hopefully they do happen in the spring but it will be to a lesser degree. There are many non-conference and conference games we are going to miss the most, but it will be the o...

Jeremy is joined by Andrew to try to figure out and guess how a college basketball season can take place. The dates for the season are still up in the air and that could have an impact on how a season is played,. Odds are that there will need to be a bubble scenario in different conferences and regions across the country. We get into a few plans for conference-only bubbles, non-conference bubbles...

Jeremy is joined by Brandon Huffman who is the national recruiting editor for 247Sports to discuss how recruiting is impacted by COVID-19. There are not only four FBS conferences not playing this fall, including the Mountain West, but a good number of states that are pushing back high school football into the spring. We discuss how offering these athletes is becoming different, especially for the...

Jeremy and Matt are back to take a look at what have been for the UNLV and San Jose State's football season. These were the two teams we did not get to before the Mountain West decided cancel the fall season. We go through each team and what could have been by going through the rosters of each team. A big takeaway was that San Jose State has things going in the right direction and could have cause...

Matt and Jeremy are back to take a look at some comparisons of teams that are similar in style, play and historical for the upcoming season. We run through the teams and do our best to comp Group of 5 and Power 5 teams to get on the bandwagon now. We also go through some news with transfer portal updates and who could go where, plus could the league see seniors pass on their final year if a spring...

Jeremy and Matt are back to discuss the decision that the Mountain West made which was to cancel football in the fall with the plan to push it back in the spring. We dive into why that decision was made. Losing the season is a gut punch even if it was expected by a lot of people. There is a petition to get college football back for the Big Ten but that seems to be short-sighted with the medical ev...

Jeremy is joined by James Jimenez of Hustle Belt who covers MAC sports as the assistant site manager and creative director. We go over the reasons behind MAC canceled the football season and if it was the right choice (which is the right move). Health was clearly at the top as to why to not play football from both leagues, plus with actual football not happening yet, we don't know how much COVDI-1...

Jeremy and Matt discuss the new schedule for the upcoming Mountain West football schedule which is an eight-game league slate plus two non-conference games. This allows Air Force to schedule Army and Navy but the league says teams can schedule up to two more games, so there will be some teams that play anywhere between eight and 10 games. Then they discuss if there will even be a college football...

Matt and Jeremy are joined by our Colorado State writer Josh Fredlund to discuss the allegations put on the Colorado State. The issues started with COVID-19 protocols allegedly being violated by the coaching staff. That started an investigation but that was not all. There are also allegations of racial issues within the program. There are a lot of players and coaches who back new head coach Steve...

Matt and Jeremy are back to preview the 2020 Boise State season. As of now, the Broncos have a full 12-game slate so we preview as normal. While this Boise State team does return 11 starts back from both sides of the ball there seems to not be any regression and possibly even an improvement over last year. The quarterback spot is one of the deepest in the league with starter Hank Bachmeier returni...

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the Nevada Wolf Pack team. This Nevada squad brings back a lot of its talent from last year and couple that with a strong November and this team could be in contention to win the West Division. The team now has just one quarterback in Carson Strong and he is entrenched as the starter and he did play in 10 games last year. There are other pieces as well that incl...

Jeremy and Matt provide a quick update to Air Force football with QB Donald Hammond III no longer in good standing and likely will not be with the Falcons team this year. This is a huge loss as Hammond was going to be our first-team quarterback and offensive player of the year, so the Falcons losing him is a big deal for their success in 2020. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mwwire/...

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the Air Force football season which is already down one game with the Purdue cancelation. The Falcons do lose a lot of talent, eight total starters, but their offense returns their key players in two of the best offensive lineman around, QB Donald Hammond III, and its top two running backs. The defense will have issues in the secondary with most of those starter...

Matt and Jeremy are back to talk about the tumultuous upcoming college football season that is looking less and less not normal. The Pac-12 and Big Ten have announced that they are going with only conference games and that hurts the Mountain West by losing 15 games. The two discuss what a Mountain West football season will look like and what the most likely option could be. They also discuss any a...