Today and Wednesday are interesting days when it comes to Mountain West Conference football.
Both BYU and Utah play Pac-10 foes in their bowl games. BYU plays Oregon State in the Las Vegas Bowl tonight in a battle of ranked teams. Utah takes on California in the Poinsettia Bowl Wednesday in San Diego.
In the MWC’s ongoing quest for respectability, a pair of wins over Pac-10 teams from one of the six almighty Bowl Championship Series conferences wouldn’t give the league all the respect it needs or deserves from the rest of the nation. But it wouldn’t hurt, and to see the MWC’s second and third-place teams beat teams from the Pac-10 that finished at or below second and third would go a long way to saying the upper echelon of the MWC is better than the middle-of-the-road Pac-10.
That may not sound like much, but that would help the MWC’s respect meter go up a notch or two.
Who do you like in these games?
I think BYU will be more motivated to finish this season on a better note than it was last season. And I think Utah’s defense will be the different against Cal, which won’t have stud running back Jahvid Best.
BYU 30, Oregon State 23
Utah 24, Cal 20
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I look for the MWC to sweep it’s bowl games this year the only remaining question mark is Air force. I feel after last nights BYU domination of OSU you have to be crazy not to think that this conference can go head to head with anyone, anywhere just ask Fresno State.