{"id":6833,"date":"2016-10-18T07:35:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/?p=6833"},"modified":"2016-10-18T07:35:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:35:18","slug":"2016-mountain-west-bowl-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/2016-mountain-west-bowl-projections\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Mountain West Bowl Projections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every school in the Mountain West conference has made it to the halfway point of their football seasons. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to offer my projections for Mountain West bowl games this coming December.<\/p>\n<p>The first question to answer when doing this is who will become bowl eligible? Our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamrankings.com\/\">TeamRankings.com <\/a>have done just that and their Mountain West bowl eligibility probability percentages are presented below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6847\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6847\" class=\"wp-image-6847\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MW-Bowl-.png\" alt=\"mw-bowl\" width=\"650\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MW-Bowl-.png 754w, https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MW-Bowl--300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain West Bowl Eligibility Probability Percentage (TeamRankings.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As you can see Boise State and San Diego State are locks for eligibility at 100% each. Air Force and Wyoming have one foot in the door at 98.3 and 85.6 percent respectively while New Mexico, Utah State, Colorado State and Hawaii are all fighting for what looks like the final two spots. Fresno State and San Jose State are all but eliminated with both schools having a less than one-percent chance of reaching six wins. Read on to see who I think will be in the bowl mix and if Boise State will land in a prestige bowl.<\/p>\n<h3>Bowl Projections<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Las Vegas Bowl<\/span> &#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">December 17 \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Boise State<\/span> vs <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Stanford<\/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><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New Mexico Bowl<\/span> &#8211; <span style=\"color: #333333;\">December 17 \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #421c03;\">Wyoming<\/span>\u00a0vs\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Old Dominion\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Poinsettia Bowl<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211;<\/span>\u00a0December 21 \u00a0 \u00a0* \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">San Diego State\u00a0<\/span>vs <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">BYU<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\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: #333333;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Idaho Bowl<\/span> &#8211; December 22\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0* \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Air Force<\/span>\u00a0vs \u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Eastern Michigan\u00a0<\/span> \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: #000000;\"><b>Hawai&#8217;i\u00a0<\/b><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bowl &#8211;<\/span>\u00a0December 24 \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Hawaii<\/span>\u00a0vs <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Western Kentucky\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;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Arizona Bowl &#8211;<\/span>\u00a0December 30 \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">New Mexico<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0vs\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Idaho<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every school in the Mountain West conference has made it to the halfway point of their football seasons. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to offer my projections for Mountain West bowl games this coming December. The first question to answer when doing this is who will become bowl eligible? Our [&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":[1004],"class_list":["post-6833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wyoblog","tag-mountain-west-bowl-projections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833","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=6833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}