Welcome back everyone to the Hike’s Peak podcast, thank you for coming back to the mountain! We’re creeping up on the halfway point of the regular season, and this might’ve been the most insane week yet! Mountain West heavyweights North Dakota State and New Mexico both kicked off conference play with dominant wins, while UNLV continued building on their momentum with a Power Four win over Cal. We’ll break down everything you need to know from those games, and then how are we not going to talk about
what happened with Colorado State, Jim Mora, and defensive coordinator Tyson Summers, are you kidding me? This is honestly one of the wildest stories I’ve ever covered in college sports. Once we wrap up everything from Week 5, I want to take a pit stop in the transfer portal and check in on last season’s Top 10 outgoing Mountain West transfers, guys like Anthony Colandrea, Danny Scudero, and Trey White just to name a few, and see how they’re faring at their new homes. Then, to finish the show, we’ll of course go over our Mountain West and PAC-12 games of the week, complete with previews and predictions as title contenders collide in both matchups. Super fun show this week, let’s dive in!
Episode link is here!
Show Notes:
- Bison, Lobos dominate first Mountain West home games. Can anyone one else catch them?
- UNLV outlasts Cal for crucial win. Who shined the brightest, and what’s still left to fix?
- Oregon State drops 56 points on Colorado State, leading to the first halftime firing in CFB history? What we know so far about the Tyson Summers debacle…
- Revisiting 2025’s Top 10 outgoing transfers 2026 performance
- Featuring: QB Anthony Colandrea (UNLV-Nebraska), DE Trey White (SDSU-Texas Tech), WR Danny Scudero (SJSU-Colorado), SAF Ty Benefield (Boise St-LSU), WR Jackson Harris (Hawaii-LSU), TE Dorian Thomas (UNM-Cal) & more!
- MW/PAC-12 Games of the Week
- North Dakota State (5-0) @ UNLV (3-2)
- #23 Boise State (4-1) @ Fresno State (4-1)
That is it for this week’s episode of the Hike’s Peak podcast, thank you so much for listening! If you want to listen to my full interview on Bison 1660 from last week, you can find the link here! Make sure to explore the FREEdepth chart tracker app, which provides starting lineup projections for every team in the Mountain West and PAC-12! If you like the show & enjoy our coverage, leave a rating on whatever platform you’re listening on, every single one of those helps us out immensely. Follow us on twitter atMWCConnection! Also make sure to check out our site’s brand new podcast, “The Pac-Mountain Pulse”, with Derek & Dom’s conversations airing on Thursdays! Thank you so much for listening, enjoy another week of impossible to predict football! Until next time, I’m Jack Thompson, and thank you for coming back to the mountain!
