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2026 Wyoming Cowboys Preview

Wyoming carries the pride of their entire state on their shoulders. After a couple year reset following Bohl's retirement, can the Pokes get back to winning?

Full preview attached, here's some key highlights

📌 QB Tyler Hughes brings a new hope to the Pokes offense 🔥

📌 Can the Oline step up and get back to the form we are used to seeing from Wyoming?

📌 Wyoming is known for playing great defense. Stars like Jayden Williams and Ethan Stuhlsatz along with what appears to be a loaded secondary will ensure that continues

What are your predictions for Wyoming in 2026?

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u/updogsportstalk — 3 days ago
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Nevada Coaching Candidates

I’m a Nevada Alum and fan. I am not too confident that Jeff Choate and his staff will be able to turn things around this season. If we don’t I think we will let him go especially since his buyout is affordable and will not be too much of a financial hit for us. We already built the new business building on campus and added a new parking garage, and the new basketball arena will be ready in a year or so, plus they added the big indoor field house for the football facility. Which is a good thing for us I think. But I do think the administration and athletic department could wanting to be investing more into academics and basketball right now compared to football. Essentially Choates buyout and job performance could be low on their priority list to handle.

Now if they do part ways with him is Bryan Harsin a realistic candidate? He did great as the HC at Boise State. I know his tenure at Auburn did not end well and there was some stuff off the field that rubbed some players and fans the wrong way. I also know that his wife got involved into some drama during his time at Auburn and that was not a good look on him and his family. But at the same time he has shown he has been a great coach at the G5 level. I was thinking this would be a realistic candidate because of Mountain West success and his familiarity with that region, which can help in recruiting. Please let me know if he is someone to at least give a call if they part ways with Choate.

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u/SeaRegret9600 — 5 days ago
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Questions on the new MW+ app.

Hi my local school of NDSU Football is moving to Mountain West this year, and I need to ask a few questions on the new MW+ app. Sorry if they have been covered here before, just basic questions.

  1. How many at the same time streams does the app allow? Is it only one live stream per account or like three at a time?

  2. Are all playoff and championship games all on the MW+ app?

In past seasons in the FCS NDSU regular season games were mostly on the local ABC station. The playoffs and championship was on ESPN. I'm just the guy in the family who has to set things up so everyone can watch the games.

Thanks.

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u/nodakskip — 7 days ago
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Is Mountain West Near Insolvency?

Asking this question on Google gets lots of references to the supposed $70 million settlement of their lawsuits with the Pac 12 and former teams. But it doesn't go any deeper than that. Asking about current MW accounts payable produces nothing. But there are a number of factors which indicate that MW is in very poor financial condition:

-They are obligated to pay $61 million expeditiously to satisfy contractual distributions to the teams they retained. This must be paid before anything else.

-They owe $18 million for the cost of getting new members.

-They owe legal fees for their Pac 12 lawsuits.

-They have already been paid $47 million by the departing schools, by retaining their 2025 and 2026 conference shares. They were overzealous about this and owe $2 million back to the five departing schools:

"Following the MW bylaws, the conference withheld annual distributions from its five departing schools for the 2025 and 2026 fiscal years. Those were roughly $6 million payments. So, the MW would owe those schools a $2 million re-payment after withholding a total of $12 million."

https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/reporters/what-mountain-wests-reported-70m-settlement-figure-means-for-nevada-others-in-league

It appears that MW only has about $25 million left that they can collect from the Pac. Their net asset valuation is about $50 million, and almost all of this is withheld distributions from the departing schools.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/841472434

Even with another infusion of $25 million from the Pac for poaching, MW's obligations exceed their total assets by at least $20 million. Since they are a non-profit the easiest course is to collect the missing money from the member schools....or reduce their distributions from the lawsuit settlements.

Murray's final summary of the MW's legal maneuvering:

"Bottom line — this settlement should create some new revenue for Nevada and other MW schools. But it's clearly not program-changing cash for the non-UNLV/Air Force schools that remained in the MW."

u/Quiet-Day392 — 13 days ago
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2026 Mountain West Preview & Predictions

Our 2026 Conference Preview Series marches on. As always, we are here to tell the story about your team!

We are joined by Omar Rashon of the Hardware Pod to preview the Mountain West!

We'll cover a lot of information during this packed episode including:

📌 Thrilling football is back on the Island 🏝️

📌 There's something special cooking in Albuquerque

📌 North Dakota State finally makes the jump to FBS

📌 No Boise State, no problems for UNLV?

📌 Mountain West newcomers, sleepers & championship picks

We'll go team by team to ensure your team gets their moment to shine. What are your predictions? Be sure to let us know in the comments!

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u/updogsportstalk — 14 days ago