Mountain West will have nine squads on the board in the sportsbook college football betting.

Utah will be leaving the conference while Boise State is coming on board, so that is the same amount of squads that they have had in college football probabilities at the online sportsbook. It didn’t end up happening, but it seemed for a while like the Mountain West might get a number of teams if the Big 12 disbanded.

For a little while there, the Mountain West Conference thought they were ultimately going to be joining the BCS. The Big 12 had lost 2 squads, 5 more were debating about leaving, and the Mountain West was hoping to just absorb the rest and include the high-profile colleges that would give them an automatic bid from the BCS.

The Pac-10 was refused by Texas instead. That decision alone ensured that Mountain West wouldessentially stay right where they are, since it essentially held together the whole conference.

Sportsbook probabilities will be affected in 2011, though this season will not be impacted by the conference changes. The loss of Utah will damage the conference however the addition of Boise State almost compensates for the loss of the Utes. The Mountain West has stated that they will stay at nine squads for the foreseeable future. The conference would have liked to broaden to 12 squads so they could get a college football conference title match but that did not occur. It was looking like the Mountain West might get some Big 12 squads but Texas resolved to stay in the conference and the remainder of the squads followed.

The addition of those three squads sure would have helped, but Mountain West may still have the ability to get an automatic invitation to a BCS bowl match in the long run. It seems that the conferences are going to continue to be the same since Nebraska switched to the Big 10, Colorado to the Pac-10, Utah to the Pac-10 and Boise State to the Mountain West. The Big 12 and the Mountain West look to be the major losers of the conference shakeups. Neither conference has sufficient colleges to get a conference football championship match.

Now the old fashioned way – winning it on a football field – is the only way for the Mountain west to get into the BCS. And that’s how it’s done it previously. They were just hoping that the addition of some more squads would make it a little easier on themselves.

The interesting element of the college alterations in the conference will be the times. It’ll be interesting to see how Boise State’s plan for future football seasons plays out since they are a national football force. Utah should immediately become a contender in the Pac-10 when they join in 2011 since they are also a pretty excellent football squad. The plan for Nebraska in the Big 10 will also be interesting to watch at the online sportsbook as the Cornhuskers have seemed much better under head coach Bo Pellini. They could immediately become a catalyst in the Big 10 in football when they join the conference.


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