{"id":5402,"date":"2015-10-27T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T00:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/?p=5402"},"modified":"2015-10-27T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T00:27:14","slug":"mountain-west-bowl-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/mountain-west-bowl-projections\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain West Bowl Projections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mwc.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mwc.png\" alt=\"mwc\" width=\"200\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wyoming can no longer become bowl eligible and reach the 6 win mark this season after the loss at Boise State last weekend but other teams in the Mountain West certainly will go bowling. This bowl process is not as easy to project these days with a lack of automatic bowl births based on conference affiliation and finishing order but it is a fun process to go through anyway. With that in mind, here is my initial try at projecting the Mountain West bowl games for the coming bowl season.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Las Vegas Bowl<\/span> &#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">December 19 \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">*<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Boise State<\/span> vs <span style=\"color: #003366;\">California\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #003366;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>New Mexico Bowl &#8211; <span style=\"color: #333333;\">December 19 \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">New Mexico<\/span> vs <span style=\"color: #993366;\">Rice<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Idaho Bowl &#8211;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333333;\">December 22 \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Utah State<\/span> vs <span style=\"color: #292101;\">Western Michigan<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Poinsettia Bowl &#8211;<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">December 23 \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">San Diego State<\/span> vs <span style=\"color: #000000;\">N. Illinois<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><b>Hawai&#8217;i\u00a0<\/b><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bowl &#8211;<\/span>\u00a0December 24 \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Nevada<\/span><\/span> vs <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Navy\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Armed Forces Bowl &#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">December 29 \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Air Force<\/span> vs <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michigan<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Arizona Bowl &#8211;<span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0December 29 \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Colorado State<\/span> vs <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Toledo<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Wyoming can no longer become bowl eligible and reach the 6 win mark this season after the loss at Boise State last weekend but other teams in the Mountain West certainly will go bowling. This bowl process is not as easy to project these days with a lack of automatic bowl births based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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":[779,214,780],"class_list":["post-5402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wyoblog","tag-2015-bowl-games","tag-mountain-west","tag-projections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}