Week one in the Mountain West is in the books and we had another great weekend of football. Oh by the way, football is back! Hawaii technically started their season a week ago, but the rest started this week. There was a lot of lopsided scores this week, some of them in favor of the Mountain West some of them.. well, better luck next week. At the time of this writing it is now 10pm in Laramie and the Wyoming and Northern Illinois game as not yet kicked off.<\/p>\n
The Hawaii Rainbow Warriors made another cross country road trip to face Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines. That trip didn\u2019t go very well. The Rainbow Warriors suffered a 63-3 loss in Ann Arbor. Boise State made a trip across the country and beat up on Louisiana-Lafayette. Colorado State lost a really bad game to their in-state rival Colorado in Denver. Utah State and Weber State played the first game ever broadcast by Twitter. Tony Sanchez\u2019s second season at UNLV started with a 63-3 victory over FCS Jackson State.<\/p>\n
FCS Cal Poly gave Nevada more than they would have liked and ended up in overtime. Cal Poly has never been an easy out for Mountain West teams and Nevada was the latest team to get a scare from the Mustangs. New Hampshire made a trip across country to play San Diego State and lost 31-0. I\u2019m guessing New Hampshire wished they still had Chip Kelly running their offense against the Aztecs. Abilene Christian put up a fight for a while, but ultimately was beat down by Air Force.<\/p>\n
Scores<\/strong><\/p>\n Michigan 63 Boise State 45 Air Force 37 Tulsa 45 New Hampshire 0 Nebraska 43 Northern Illinois 34 Weber State 6 South Dakota 21 Jackson State 13 Colorado State 7 Cal Poly 27 Player of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n Thomas Sperbeck, Boise State. Sperbeck had six receptions, 130 yards, and one touchdown in Boise State\u2019s victory over Louisiana-Lafayette.<\/p>\n Mountain West MVP Candidates<\/strong><\/p>\n Brett Rypien, Boise State, 22\/33 347 yards and two touchdowns. Mountain West Power Rankings<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Boise State Final Thoughts and Hot Takes<\/strong><\/p>\n – Colorado State losing to Colorado is one thing, but to lose by 37 points? That\u2019s unbelievable. The Rams were supposed to perhaps contend for a Mountain West title, but getting scrubbed by a Pac12 bottom dweller is not how you make a case for Big 12 membership.<\/p>\n – Schedule makers didn\u2019t do Hawaii any favors by booking them in back to back weeks traveling a ridiculous distance. They should have had a week off between those two contests. Honolulu to Sydney to Honolulu to Ann Arbor and back to Honolulu just isn\u2019t how you keep the grades up of your student athletes.<\/p>\n – Without watching the game and looking at it on the surface it appears that Boise State might be a pretty good team this year. Drubbing Louisiana-Lafayette on the road is impressive. Boise State isn\u2019t getting a lot of attention this year given the amount of success that Houston is having. Boise State needs to be rooting for Houston to lose a contest and take care of business on their end.<\/p>\n – Brett Rypien and Thomas Sperbeck are two names that we\u2019re going to see in this blog a lot, I have a feeling. They do pretty good things with the football in their hands.<\/p>\n – As we discovered at the tailgates in Laramie this weekend\u2026 don\u2019t put Vegas money down on San Jose State on the road. You will lose your money.<\/p>\n – Great win for Wyoming over Northern Illinois. This Wyoming team is much better than last year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Week one in the Mountain West is in the books and we had another great weekend of football. Oh by the way, football is back! Hawaii technically started their season a week ago, but the rest started this week. There was a lot of lopsided scores this week, some of them in favor of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5884,"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":[34,32,684,54,807,581,603,214,334,351,50,48,574,52,575,31,155],"class_list":["post-6456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wyoblog","tag-air-force-falcons","tag-boise-state-broncos","tag-brian-hill","tag-colorado-state-rams","tag-feature","tag-fresno-state-bulldogs","tag-hawaii-rainbow-warriors","tag-mountain-west","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","tag-wyoming-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456","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=6456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHawaii 3<\/p>\n
\nLouisiana Lafayette 10<\/p>\n
\nAbilene Christian 21<\/p>\n
\nSan Jose State 10<\/p>\n
\nSan Diego State 31<\/p>\n
\nFresno State 10<\/p>\n
\nWyoming 40<\/p>\n
\nUtah State 45<\/p>\n
\nNew Mexico 48<\/p>\n
\nUNLV 63<\/p>\n
\nColorado 44<\/p>\n
\nNevada 30<\/p>\n
\nThomas Sperbeck, Boise State, 6 receptions, 130 yards, two touchdowns. 1\/1 passing, 48 yards, one touchdown.
\nDonnell Pumphrey, San Diego State, 21 carries, 98 yards, 1 touchdown. 4 receptions, 41 yards.
\nDevante Mays, Utah State, 18 carries, 208 yards and three touchdowns.
\nBrian Hill, Wyoming, 33 carries, 132 yards, two touchdowns.<\/p>\n
\n2. San Diego State
\n3. Air Force
\n4. Utah State
\n5. New Mexico
\n6. Wyoming
\n7. UNLV
\n8. Nevada
\n9. Fresno State
\n10. Colorado State
\n11. San Jose State
\n12. Hawaii<\/p>\n