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Mountain West/Pac-12 Softball Transfer Portal Tracker 06-17-2026
The 2026 season has come to its conclusion, and with it, the chaos that is the NCAA transfer portal has officially opened. While teams navigate the Mountain West-Pac-12 split, I will be keeping track of who teams lose and gain through the portal window. This article will be reposted with updates every day until the […]
What will PAC-12 scheduling look like with the Protect College Sports Act?
Last week, we took a look at what the future of Mountain West football scheduling may look like with the proposed “Protect College Sports” Act. Most importantly, magnifying this proposal: “Re-establishes regional rivalries by requiring some schools to restart rivalry games if they compete in a conference without three or more of their top 10 […]
Peak Perspective: Top 10 Men’s Basketball Teams of the Divisional Era
*With the Mountain West changing, I thought it would be fun to go back and highlight the best players, games, and teams over the past 13 years, since the last phase of conference realignment. Previously I’ve covered Top 10 football players, Top 10 basketball players, and Top 10 Football Teams. Today’s list is Top 10 […]
Summer Report Cards for all 12 Mountain West Teams! Grades, storylines, & stars for football/basketball! MW/PAC-12 Depth Chart Tracker UPDATE! HP Ep. #158 OUT NOW!
Welcome back everyone, to the Hike’s Peak podcast, thank you for coming back to the mountain! With summer just around the corner, it’s time to hand out report cards to all 12 of the 2025 Mountain West teams. We’ll be taking an overhead look at how each school’s football and basketball programs fared this past […]
Mountaintop View 6-17-26: College Bill Support, JD Davis commits, and more.
Sorsby is done with college sports. Can local judges be next? In the wake of the fallout of the Brendan Sorsby saga, are local judges going to continue to overrule the NCAA or can they finally take a backseat? Dan Wetzel investigates. The NFLPA and NBPA show support for College Sports Bill The Protect College […]
MWCConnection Reacts Survey: MW Hot Seat, Pac-12 1st-year coaches.
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Mountain West fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Quick note: This year, the Mountain West has more coaches with a few years under […]
Mountain West/Pac-12 Softball Transfer Portal Tracker 06-16-2026
The 2026 season has come to its conclusion, and with it, the chaos that is the NCAA transfer portal has officially opened. While teams navigate the Mountain West-Pac-12 split, I will be keeping track of who teams lose and gain through the portal window. This article will be reposted with updates every day until the […]
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Special Teams
We have reached the point in the off-season where spring football has concluded and fans are starting to have a better understanding of what their team’s depth chart may look like. With that, we are going to take a look at specific position groups across the PAC 12 and Mountain West. With our coverage shifting […]
Mountaintop View 6-17-26
Idaho Gov. Brad Little forms working group to keep college athletics competitive It’s a story we’re seeing more of and more of: state governments getting involved in financing college athletics. This time, Boise State and the other Idaho schools are hoping to make their case for keeping up. College football’s most experienced offenses: Ranking all […]
MWCConnection Recruiting Roundup 6-15-26. When do schools and recruits start to talk about NIL money?
It’s another week of the Recruiting Roundup. A few weeks ago, The Athletic put out an article about coaches attempting to figure out when to talk to recruits about (NIL) money. Such is life in college sports in 2026. It turns out, the recruit and the school might have different preferences, but if the school […]
Mountaintop View 6-15-26. San Jose State, Texas State, Pac-12 top G6 conference? Habtom Samuel National Champ.
It’s Monday, and we are in the full swing of the summer offseason. That being said, football preview posts are ramping up. As always, our coverage is still going strong. Check out our original coverage and what we can find from the World Wide Web below. San Jose State Preview College Football News looks at […]
Feedback wanted: What are your thoughts on our recruiting coverage?
Happy Sunday, readers! Hope you are all enjoying your weekend. We are continuing to attempt to build interactions between our writing team and our readers, and after spending a few weeks learning about our readers, we are now looking at feedback from all of you. This week, we continue to review our site content, with […]
Mountain West/Pac-12 Softball Transfer Portal Tracker 06-14-2026
The 2026 season has come to its conclusion, and with it, the chaos that is the NCAA transfer portal has officially opened. While teams navigate the Mountain West-Pac-12 split, I will be keeping track of who teams lose and gain through the portal window. This article will be reposted with updates every day until the […]
MWCConnection Reacts Results: Poinsettia Bowl, Pac-12 Quarterbacks
This post is brought to you by FanDuel, proud partner of SBNation. Pac-12 vs P4 a plus for the Poinsettia Bowl The Poinsettia Bowl is coming back, and after a rumor that the MW champ would be part of it, it turns out that instead it is most likely to be the Pac-12 champ vs a […]
Smith shaping SJSU’s run game into a spread & shred weapon
In the third summer installment of San Jose State football’s position groups, we visit the running backs’ room. Listening to the coaches Ken Niumatalolo has assembled around him, you start to notice a thread. The good ones don’t just teach football. They teach how they think so to be self-dependent, which is also a skill […]
Mountain West/Pac-12 Softball Transfer Portal Tracker 06-12-2026
The 2026 season has come to its conclusion, and with it, the chaos that is the NCAA transfer portal has officially opened. While teams navigate the Mountain West-Pac-12 split, I will be keeping track of who teams lose and gain through the portal window. This article will be reposted with updates every day until the […]
Friday Five: Top 5 Mountain West Football Stadiums
Hello western sports fans, happy World Cup Day to those who celebrate. The off-season presses on, the Mountain West is set to split this summer in just a few weeks, with the “departing five” leaving to create the reformed Pac-12. The Mountain West has added the likes of North Dakota State, Northern Illinois, and UTEP […]
Mountaintop View 6-12-2026: Texas Tech, Phil Steele, Group of Five Coaches, Boise State, UNLV, Wyoming, Hawaii
Is Texas Tech hurting itself more than it is helping itself? Boise State is earning some high preseason honors Top Group of Five Coaches Do you agree with this list? Wyoming and Hawaii football are also receiving some honors from Phil Steele Phil Steele is also expecting big things from the Rebels UNLV lands 15 […]
Mountain West/Pac-12 Softball Transfer Portal Tracker 06-11-2026
The 2026 season has come to its conclusion, and with it, the chaos that is the NCAA transfer portal has officially opened. While teams navigate the Mountain West-Pac-12 split, I will be keeping track of who teams lose and gain through the portal window. This article will be reposted with updates every day until the […]
What will Mountain West scheduling look like with the Protect College Sports Act?
It’s a fun game to play matchmaker and create fantasy games in our heads (or on video games) for what we want to see on the college gridiron. In reality, it is much more complicated than that, and with the current state of college sports, it’s a jigsaw puzzle of conference realignment and finding “quality” […]
Mountaintop View 6-11-26
OPINION: Football: Inside the Lobos’ historic rise from long shots to favorites We missed this from the other day, but it’s a worthy read nonetheless. Edge Garcia of the Daily Lobo, New Mexico’s student newspaper highlights the absolutely bananas fact that New Mexico is the betting favorite to win the Mountain West in 2026, unthinkable […]
World Cup dreams touch down at San Jose State
The cheers weren’t deafening. There were no television timeouts, no giant scoreboard graphics and no pressure-packed World Cup match hanging in the balance. Yet for two hours Monday evening at San Jose State’s Spartan Soccer Complex, none of that seemed to matter with Paraguay’s national soccer team’s first open practice to the public. It was […]
MW/PAC Depth Chart Tracker App Update! All 8 PAC-12 Teams’ projections added! Track EVERY rostered MW/PAC player! Each PAC-12 Teams’ Top Position Group for 2026! HP Ep. #157 OUT NOW!
Welcome back everyone, to the Hike’s Peak podcast, thank you for coming back to the mountain! As promised last week, the official Mountain West PAC-12 Depth Chart Tracker App is now live with every rostered player in the PAC-12 conference! That now means no matter if you root for Boise State or New Mexico or […]
Mountain West/Pac-12 Softball Transfer Portal Tracker 06-10-2026
The 2026 season has come to its conclusion, and with it, the chaos that is the NCAA transfer portal has officially opened. While teams navigate the Mountain West-Pac-12 split, I will be keeping track of who teams lose and gain through the portal window. This article will be reposted with updates every day until the […]
Bowl tie-ins will be more complicated in 2026.
Nearly every bowl has tie-ins with various conferences, but when ESPN owns 17 games and broadcasting rights to 13 others, affiliations can become murky as they make trades for matchups and ratings. And for the 2026-2027 bowl season, expect things to become even more convoluted, thanks to the rebirth of the Pac-12 Conference (with enough […]
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