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After the long hiatus of the Mountain West Quad Shot I can officially say that it\u2019s back\u2019ish. Been an eventful year of adulting for me, so getting back into the swing of writing seems to be taking some time! Regardless, here we are and football is back!<\/p>\n
Can\u2019t say I\u2019m too excited to see football season back, as summers in western Montana aren\u2019t very long and I like to be outside playing as much as possible when the weather\u2019s not raining or snowing! However, I\u2019m sure once I get a tailgate or two under my belt I\u2019ll be in full swing.<\/p>\n
Big weekend for the Mountain West Conference, collecting some Power 5 wins and no losses that make us scratch our heads and wonder where things went wrong. Though, I thought New Mexico was going to provide some fodder with FCS powerhouse Sam Houston State in the house and scoring a lot of points on the Lobos. But alas, the tens of fans in attendance got to see their Lobos march to victory. Fresno State wasn\u2019t really ever competitive with USC, however, they delivered one of the biggest blows of the weekend as the Trojans announced that quarterback JT Daniels will miss the season with a blown ACL. Quarterback Jorge Reyna could be a legitimate player of the year candidate in the MW, he collected a lot of solo yards this past weekend.<\/p>\n
San Diego State and Weber State engaged in the pillow fight of the weekend battling to a 6-0 final in San Diego. Weber State had a kick return touchdown called back on a dubious penalty, otherwise we\u2019d have seen a big upset. Weber State is a legitimate FCS powerhouse, but San Diego State should have been able to muster more than six points. Air Force and UNLV took care of business against their FCS opponents handily.<\/p>\n
Nevada chocked up an impressive win over visiting Purdue. The Wolf Pack found themselves in a pretty big hole, but scoring 27 points in the second half while holding Purdue to seven seemed to be the magic recipe to beating the Boilermakers. A lot of scuttle around Purdue and head coach Jeff Brohm, I\u2019d say the Wolf Pack stamped out some of that hype in B1G land. Utah State and Jordan Love gave it a shot, but couldn\u2019t quite hold their late lead on Wake Forest as the Demon Deacons reeled off a 6 play, 89 yard drive to end the game.<\/p>\n
Big wins for Boise State and Wyoming, both knocking off legit Power 5 teams. Florida State could be a contender for the ACC, while Missouri could be a contender for the SEC East (lol, they\u2019re not winning the SEC championship). Good to see the SEC take it on the chin this weekend though. Onto the other stuff..<\/p>\n
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Scores<\/strong><\/p>\n Missouri 31 Sam Houston State 31 Boise State 36 Colgate 7 Weber State 0 Southern Utah 23 Fresno State 23 Northern Colorado 18 Utah State 35 Purdue 31 Colorado State 31 <\/p>\n Mountain West Player of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n Boise State quarterback Hank Bachmeier is this week\u2019s Mountain West player of the week. Bachmeier, the freshman making his first collegiate start, led the Broncos back from the edge of failure to rally the troops to a 36-31 victory at Florida State. Bachmeier was 30\/51 for 407 yards with one TD and one INT.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mountain West MVP Candidates<\/strong><\/p>\n Hank Bachmeier, QB, Boise State \u2013 30-51, 407 yards 1 TD <\/p>\n Mountain West Power Rankings<\/strong><\/p>\n Boise State <\/p>\n The Quad Shot<\/strong><\/p>\n Good weekend for the Mountain West in the first week of the season, collecting four wins over Power 5 opponents. One more over the Big 12 and the cycle would have been complete. Last year the Mountain West was written off as being no better than the MAC, this year there\u2019s a good chance they could be the best conference of the Group of Five.<\/p>\n Most impressive win this week goes to Boise State who beat Florida State in Tallahassee after the game was moved from Jacksonville due to the impending hurricane about to ravage Florida. Broncos don\u2019t seem to care where they play, as long as there\u2019s someone to beat. If Hank Bachmeier was old enough to drink I\u2019m sure he\u2019d be the toast of the town.<\/p>\n Sean Chambers had a nice weekend for Wyoming, busting off a nice 75 yard run for a touchdown and keeping the chains moving. I\u2019m still skeptical of his passing attack, going 6\/16 isn\u2019t going to win a lot of football games, especially when the rushing attack is slow to start. I\u2019m sure his arm and confidence will improve as the season goes on, and he certainly has the weapons around him to be successful, but the passing stats needs to improve.<\/p>\n San Jose State collected their first non-conference win since 2017 when they beat the Big Sky\u2019s Cal Poly. This weekend they were able to defeat the Big Sky\u2019s Northern Colorado. Call me crazy, but I think SJSU might be a pretty good Big Sky team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the long hiatus of the Mountain West Quad Shot I can officially say that it\u2019s back\u2019ish. Been an eventful year of adulting for me, so getting back into the swing of writing seems to be taking some time! Regardless, here we are and football is back! Can\u2019t say I\u2019m too excited to see football […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[34,32,54,581,603,334,351,50,48,574,52,575,31],"class_list":["post-10846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wyoblog","tag-air-force-falcons","tag-boise-state-broncos","tag-colorado-state-rams","tag-fresno-state-bulldogs","tag-hawaii-rainbow-warriors","tag-mountain-west-football","tag-nevada","tag-new-mexico-lobos","tag-san-diego-state","tag-san-jose-state-spartans","tag-unlv-rebels","tag-utah-state-aggies","tag-wyoming-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWyoming 37<\/p>\n
\nNew Mexico 39<\/p>\n
\nFlorida State 31<\/p>\n
\nAir Force 48<\/p>\n
\nSan Diego State 6<\/p>\n
\nUNLV 56<\/p>\n
\nUSC 31<\/p>\n
\nSan Jose State 35<\/p>\n
\nWake Forest 39<\/p>\n
\nNevada 34<\/p>\n
\nColorado 52<\/p>\n
\nSean Chambers, QB, Wyoming \u2013 6\/16 for 92 yards, 12 rushes 120 yards and 1 TD.
\nJuwan Washington, RB, San Diego State \u2013 22 carries for 55 yards
\nJorge Reyna, QB, Fresno State \u2013 19\/39 for 256 yards and 2 TD, 20 carries for 88 yards
\nJordan Love, QB, Utah State \u2013 33\/48 for 416 yards and 3 TDs.<\/p>\n
\nUtah State
\nWyoming
\nHawaii
\nNevada
\nSan Diego State
\nAir Force
\nFresno State
\nColorado State
\nUNLV
\nNew Mexico
\nSan Jose State<\/p>\n