... Mountain West Conference is in the midst of a fairly significant face lift that will reshape the college football landscape.

Gone will be conference stalwarts Utah and Brigham Young University, two schools that have been with the conference from the beginning, and both dating their rivalries within the conference back to the old Western Athletic Conference that featured most of the current MWC teams.

Added will be football power Boise State, along with WAC upper-echelon teams Fresno State and Nevada.

For a brief period of time, before the impending loss of Utah and BYU, the MWC was poised to become a stronger conference than at least one of the Bowl Championship Series conferences, p...

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