Boise State football: 3 best post-Mountain West options
By John Scimeca
Boise State football might be on the path to a departure from the Mountain West Conference. What are the best options moving forward for the Broncos?
News about Boise State suing the Mountain West Conference over a new media rights deal with CBS and FOX came out earlier this week. It appears that several fellow MWC members are not keen on continuing to treat Boise State as better than the rest of the league, despite a deal promising the Broncos $1.8 million extra in revenue.
The deal was part of the promise to keep Boise State from bolting the league in 2012.
Would it be easiest, though, for Boise State to remain in the Mountain West? The Broncos do not have a large media market behind them, nor are they based in recruiting-rich territory. What they do boast, however, is a nearly unparalleled stretch of success — they are college football’s third-most winningest team (with 89 wins and 21 losses) of the past decade, behind only Ohio State and Alabama.
Would Boise State be an attractive candidate for a power conference? Though the Pac-12 makes better sense geographically, the Big 12 is a league that could re-expand its regional footprint back to the Mountain Time Zone — where it has not had a presence since Colorado’s departure in 2011.
Here are the three best options if Boise State were to explore a post-Mountain West future.