College Football - Mountain West Conference
History - Important facts - Teams - Winners
Important facts
- The Mountain West Conference was established on May 26, 1998 in the western region of the United States with base in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and officially started their operations on July 01, 1999.
- It is the first conference to have a sports television and radio network solely dedicated to an intercollegiate athletic conference.
- The MWC is also the first conference with a member institution to have a number one overall picks in both NFL and NBA at the same time, namely Alex Smith of Utah for the NFL and Andrew Bogut for the NBA.
- Mountain West Conference will send the league's football champion to the Liberty Bowl and the first runner-up to the Las Vegas Bowl.
- Among the Mountain West Conference facilities that are huge enough to accommodate large number of spectators are the Qualcomm Football Stadium of San Diego State with 71,294 seating capacity; for the basketball, BYU play their home game in Marriott Center, which can carry 22,700 people; and Utah's baseball field, the Franklin Covey Field with a seating capacity of 15,500.
- The current line-up of Mountain West Conference composed of teams from the original eight institutions, namely the Air Force, Brigham Young, Colorado State, New Mexico, Nevada-Las Vegas, San Diego State, Utah, Wyoming, and Texas Christian University, which joined the group in 2005.
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