Mountain West Wire

Jeremy and Matt are back to take a look at the Mountain West and how the former players of the league fared in the NFL Draft. Which players have a bright future and also what undrafted players that could make the cut. The two also get into the transfer portal as the second window is officially closed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the upcoming NFL Draft and how the Mountain West prospects will fare. Will there be any surprises and who will be the first player taken from the conference? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back after a little break to discuss the significance of San Diego State making the men's basketball national title game. This sparked a conversation about what is the best moments in Mountain West history. These range from draft picks, specific games, and team achievements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to go over spring football with updates from Air Force, New Mexico, and Hawaii who all wrapped up their practices and are now getting ready for the 2023 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the initial release of the 2023 Mountain West football schedule. The conference is ditching divisions so there is no more Mountain and West Divisions in the league. They go through the tough stretches, power conference opponents, and a very early sneak peek of record projections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy is joined by Matt and Brandon in one of our more unique show we do once a year and if falls in the dead time of the college sports calendar, specifically for football. This is inspired from Marchxness.com and they have a bracket out every year about a specific music group and genre. This years is 1980s one-hit wonders. The gist of it is that they must chart in the billboard top 40 AND since Marchxness has been around a bit the songs can not have been featured on a prior bracket. So, a few songs might be missing that you'd be thinking of. We are by no means any experts on music but we have a fun time bantering about what songs will win, what we like, and there is on very particular song we hope dies a firey death in the first round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt will be back to talk about the conference shakeups that may or may not happen within the Pac-12 and Mountain West. The two go through what scenarios that could happen within those conferences over the next months and years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to take a look at the first SP+ rankings of the 2023 season and it is not all that kind to the Mountain West with more teams in the triple digits in a very long time. with eight. They also get into the career of Craig Thompson since he is no longer the Mountain West commissioner as he resigned a few months ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to go through the national signing day that is now completed with a whimper since the December signing day really takes all of the luster away. They dive into those classes as well as an early look at the NFL Draft with performances from the most recent All-Star games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to go over their first look at spring football within the Mountain West. What teams need to replace talent and some predictions or goals we assign to teams. We do go alphabetically if that helps you out looking for your team. We also read some bold predictions that people sent in and have. Some fun with that at the end of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to go over the transfer portal now that it is closed. What did each team gain and lose in the first round of the portal? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to look over our staff picks from the 2022 Mountain West football season. We got some right and some wrong. Regarding our top 50 list, there were a few omissions but it is hard to figure out how good transfer portal players and replacement players due to injury or benching are going to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to go over the big coaching news over the past week in the league. The most interesting news is that Bobby Petrino is leaving UNLV for Texas A&M. The Rebels used that move to bring in an up and coming up coach Brennan Marion. Marion comes in from Texas as he was their wide receivers coach, but he has been around and in the Mountain West as the same position at Hawaii a few years ago, plus a stop in Pittsburgh. New Mexico fills outs its staff by promoting from within its defensive coordinator and Fresno State loses Kirby Moore to Missouri to be it's offensive coordinator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to recap the Arizona Bowl which saw Wyoming lose in overtime to Ohio, 30-27. The Cowboys may have found a new running back to add to depth with Jordon Vaughn who rushed for a modest 67 yards and also had two touchdowns. The Cowboys just came up short as the offense disappeared during parts of the second and third quarters. They also discuss the hiring of Bryant Vincent to New Mexico as their new offensive coordinator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the final Mountain West bowl game which is the Arizona Bowl between Wyoming and Ohio out of the MAC. The biggest question for the Cowboys is who will be playing running back since they are down to players who have zero reps due to injuries or transferring. The Bobcats also are hurting at quarterback which will impact this bowl game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview a series of four Mountian West bowl games that led to a variety of results from the conference. Potato Bowl: Eastern Michigan 41, San Jose State 27 Armed Forces Bowl: Air Force 30, Baylor 15 Hawaii Bowl: Middle Tennesee 25, San Diego State 23 First Responders Bowl: Memphis 38, Utah State 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview a handful of more bowl games this week. We have the Armed Forces Bowl, Hawaii Bowl and also the First Responders Bowl. The two also go over some coordinator news that includes Bobby Petrino going to UNLV to be an offensive coordinator and New Mexico losing Rocky Long to Syracuse for the same position. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to recap the first set of Mountain West bowl games in the Frisco and LA Bowl which saw Boise State top North Texas and Fresno State defeated Washington State. The two also go over two big coaching news items with Rocky Long leaving New Mexico to take over the same defensive coordinator positon at Syracuse. Plus, UNLV hired Bobby Petrino to lead the offense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the 2022 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl between San Jose State and Eastern Michigan. The Spartans have a killer defense that will be challenged against Eastern Michigan which is having quite the renaissance under head coach Chris Creighton who has this Eagles team on a run its never seen before. EMU has been in a lot of close games and has been good but also lucky by being just good enough to get their eight wins this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy and Matt are back to take a look at the Frisco Bowl between North Texas and Boise State. The Broncos have completed just one full bowl game since 2018. There were two years of no game do to COVID-19 issues and in 2018 their bowl game was canceled due to inclement weather after the game started. The Broncos players haven't been to a bowl game in a while and this is Andy Avalos' first one as a head coach. North Texas will be playing without its head coach Seth Littrell who was let go after losing the C-USA title game and a career .500 record in Denton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices