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

That is the same number of teams that they’ve had in college football odds at the online sportsbook but Utah will be departing the conference while Boise State is coming on board. It didn’t wind up happening, but it appeared for a while like the Mountain West may get a variety 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, five more were debating about departing, and the Mountain West was wanting to just take in the remainder and include the high-profile universities that would give them an immediate bid from the BCS.

Instead, Texas rejected the Pac-10. That decision alone ensured that Mountain West wouldjust about stay right where they are, since it just about held together the entire conference.

Sportsbook odds this season will not be affected by the conference changes but they will be impacted in 2011. The addition of Boise State practically makes up for the loss of the Utes, though the loss of Utah will damage the conference. The Mountain West has stated that they will stay at nine squads for the foreseeable future. The conference would like to have broaden to 12 squads so they may get a college football conference title game but that didn’t transpire. It was appearing as though the Mountain West may get some Big 12 squads but Texas determined to stay in the conference and the remainder of the squads followed.

The Mountain West may still be able to get an automatic invitation to a BCS bowl game in the longer term but the addition of three squads sure would have helped. It looks that the conferences are going to remain 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 big losers of the conference shakeups. Neither conference has sufficient universities to get a conference football tournament game.

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

The intriguing part of the college alterations in the conference will be the schedules. Boise State is a national football force so it’ll be intriguing to see how their plan for future football seasons plays out. Utah is also a very excellent football team and they should instantly become a contender in the Pac-10 when they join in 2011. The Cornhuskers have appeared much better under head coach Bo Pellini, so the plan for Nebraska in the Big 10 will also be intriguing to watch at the online sports book. As soon as they join the conference, they may instantly become a force in the Big 10 in football.


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