The Mountain West Conference is one of the youngest NCAA conferences. It was founded in 1999 and since then has been shaped by its continued expansion and the chaos surrounding the PAC-12 and other shifting conferences.
This has made it a lot of fun to track the teams involved in the Mountain West Conference. Unlike some of the entrenched East Coast and Southern conferences, Mountain West teams have more variety and it’s possible for teams to dramatically switch places in the rankings. This can be thanks to coaching changes, smart tactics, exciting young players or simply the magic of everything coming to together just right for a season.