Welcome back everyone to the Hike’s Peak podcast, thank you for coming back to the mountain! We’ve reached the home stretch of the regular season, and the conference championship races are heating up! In the Mountain West, Wyoming won a wild shootout over UNLV, and now control their own destiny in the title hunt, while in the PAC-12, Boise State continued their march towards the CFP with a win over Colorado State and now get to host College GameDay for the first time in 16 years! We’ll break down
everything you need to know from those stories, then we have an update on the CFP expansion to 24 teams, which is now official. We’ll discuss everything we know there compared to what we got right last month along with some new discouraging details in the fine print. Then, we’ll take a pit stop and go over in detail the conference championship races for the Mountain West and PAC-12, complete with each eligible team’s remaining schedule, path to the title game, and odds of doing so. And of course, we’ll end the show with our games of the week! No time to waste, let’s dive right in!
Episode link is here!
Show Notes:
- Wyoming wins wild shootout over UNLV, control own destiny to win Mountain West regular season title!
- Boise State puts up season high 64 points on Colorado State, College GameDay coming to town for Oregon State!
- College Football Playoff officially expanding to 24 teams in 2027: What we know, what’s in the fine print, & who asked for this?
- Mountain West/PAC-12 conference championship race breakdown: Complete w/ preview of each eligible team’s remaining games, path to the title game, & odds
- Mountain West/PAC-12 Games of the Week:
- MW: UNLV (5-4) @ New Mexico (8-1)
- PAC-12: Oregon State (5-4) @ #25 Boise State (8-1)
That is it for this week’s episode of the Hike’s Peak podcast, thank you so much for listening! If you missed my interview on Bison 1660 the other week, North Dakota State’s flagship radio station, you can find the link here! Make sure to explore the FREE depth 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 & find all of your Mountain West news atMWCConnection.com. 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, until next time, I’m Jack Thompson, and thank you for coming back to the mountain!
