2025 Mountain West Conference football season

2025 Mountain West Conference football season
League	NCAA Division I FBS
Sport	Football
Duration	August 23, 2025 – December 5, 2025
Number of teams	12
TV partner(s)	CBS Sports (CBS, CBSSN) Fox Sports (Fox, FS1, FS2)
2026 NFL draft
Regular season
Date	December 5, 2025
Seasons
←  2024 2026  →

2025 Mountain West Conference football standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Fresno State		1	–	0					4	–	1
Boise State		1	–	0					3	–	1
Utah State		1	–	0					3	–	2
Hawaii		1	–	1					4	–	2
UNLV		0	–	0					4	–	0
New Mexico		0	–	0					3	–	1
San Diego State		0	–	0					3	–	1
Wyoming		0	–	0					2	–	2
Colorado State		0	–	0					1	–	3
Nevada		0	–	0					1	–	3
San Jose State		0	–	0					1	–	3
Air Force		0	–	3					1	–	3
Championship: December 5, 2025
As of September 28, 2025 Rankings from AP Poll

The 2025 Mountain West Conference football season is the 27th season of college football for the Mountain West Conference. It is part of the 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season. 12 teams are competing in the conference during the season. The season began on August 23, 2025, and conclude with the Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game on December 5, 2025. The full season schedule was released on February 20, 2025. ^[1]

Conference realignment

The 2025 is the final season before major realignment for the Mountain West Conference. Five schools – Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, and Utah State – will all depart the Mountain West after 2025 to join the Pac-12 Conference. ^{[2] [3] [4]} Two schools will join the Mountain West in 2026 as football members to replace the departing schools. UTEP will join as a full member of the Mountain West, ^[5] while Northern Illinois will join as a football-only associate member. ^[6] Additionally, Hawaii will become a full-member of the Mountain West beginning in 2026. ^[7] Hawaii had been a football-only member of the conference since joining in 2012, with the Western Athletic Conference being the previous primary conference.

Coaches

Coaching changes

• On December 4, 2024, Fresno State announced that Matt Entz would become the new permanent head coach beginning in 2025. Entz had previously been the associated head coach at USC ^[8]
• On December 6, 2024, Utah State announced that they had hired Bronco Mendenhall away from New Mexico to become their head coach for 2025. ^[9] On December 14, 2024, New Mexico announced Jason Eck as their new head coach for 2025. Eck had previously been head coach at Idaho. ^[10]
• On December 8, 2024, UNLV head coach Barry Odom was announced as the new head coach of Purdue in the Big Ten Conference. ^[11] On December 12, 2024, UNLV announced that Dan Mullen would be the new head coach for the 2025 season. Mullen had previously been head coach of Florida in the SEC. ^[12]

Head coaches

Team	Head coach	Years at school	Overall record	Record at school	MW record
Air Force	Troy Calhoun	19	135–89	135–89	80–58
Boise State	Spencer Danielson	3	15–3	15–3	10–0
Colorado State	Jay Norvell	4	49–47	16–21	35–29
Fresno State	Matt Entz	1	60–11	0–0	0–0
Hawaii	Timmy Chang	4	13–25	13–25	8–15
Nevada	Jeff Choate	2	31–32	3–10	0–7
New Mexico	Jason Eck	1	26–13	0–0	0–0
San Diego State	Sean Lewis	2	27–40	3–9	2–5
San Jose State	Ken Niumatalolo	2	116–89	7–6	3–4
UNLV	Dan Mullen	1	103–61	0–0	0–0
Utah State	Bronco Mendenhall	1	140–88	0–0	3–4
Wyoming	Jay Sawvel	2	3–9	3–9	2–5

Preseason

Preseason Poll

The Preseason Media Poll was released July 16, 2025. Boise State was selected as the preseason favorite to claim the 2025 Mountain West football regular-season title. ^[13]

Predicted finish	Team	Votes (for first)
1	Boise State	464 (35)
2	UNLV	415 (4)
3	San Jose State	359
4	Colorado State	326
5	Fresno State	301
6	Air Force	280
7	Hawaii	213
8	San Diego State	202
9	Utah State	165
10	Wyoming	150
11	New Mexico	84
12	Nevada	83

Preseason All-Conference team

Mountain West preseason awards and all-conference teams were announced on July 16. ^[14]

Awards

Position	Player	Class	Position	Team
Award
Offensive Player of the Year	Maddux Madsen	Jr.	QB	Boise State
Defensive Player of the Year	Trey White	Jr.	EDGE	San Diego State
Special Teams Player of the Year	Gabe Plascencia	Sr.	PK

All-conference team

Position	Player	Class	Team
First Team Offense
QB	Maddux Madsen	Jr.	Boise State
RB	Scottre Humphrey	Jr.	New Mexico
	Jai'Den Thomas	Jr.	UNLV
WR	Latrell Caples	Gr.	Boise State
	Pofele Ashlock	Jr.	Hawaii
	Nick Cenacle	Sr.
TE	Matt Lauter	Sr.	Boise State
OL	Kage Casey	Jr.	Boise State
	Mason Randolph	Sr.
	Peseti Lapuaho	Sr.	San Jose State
	Caden Barnett	Sr.	Wyoming
	Jack Walsh	Sr.
First Team Defense
DL	Braxton Fely	Sr.	Boise State
	Jayden Virgin-Morgan	Jr.
	Trey White	Jr.	San Diego State
	Gafa Faga	Sr.	San Jose State
LB	Marco Notarainni	Sr.	Boise State
	Tano Letuli	Jr.	San Diego State
	Jordan Pollard	Sr.	San Jose State
	Marsel McDuffie	Sr.	UNLV
DB	Ty Benefield	Jr.	Boise State
	A’Marion McCoy	Gr.
	Al’zillion Hamilton	Sr.	Fresno State
	Ike Larsen	Sr.	Utah State
First Team Special Teams
PK	Gabe Plascencia	Sr.	San Diego State
P	Luke Freer	Sr.	Air Force
PR	Marcus Bellon	Sr.	Nevada
KR	Abraham Williams	Sr.	New Mexico

Rankings

See also: 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings

		Pre	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Wk 15	Final
Air Force	AP
	C
	CFP	Not released
Boise State	AP	25	NR
	C	25	NR
	CFP	Not released
Colorado State	AP
	C
	CFP	Not released
Fresno State	AP
	C
	CFP	Not released
Hawaii	AP
	C
	CFP	Not released
Nevada	AP
	C
	CFP	Not released
New Mexico	AP
	C
	CFP	Not released
San Diego State	AP
	C
	CFP	Not released
San Jose State	AP
	C
	CFP	Not released
UNLV	AP	RV	RV	RV
	C	RV	NR	RV
	CFP	Not released
Utah State	AP
	C
	CFP	Not released
Wyoming	AP
	C
	CFP	Not released

Legend

		Improvement in ranking
		Drop in ranking
		Not ranked previous week
		No change in ranking from previous week
RV		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25 of poll
т		Tied with team above or below also with this symbol

Schedule

The schedule was released on February 20, 2025. ^[1]

Index to colors and formatting
MW member won
MW member lost
MW teams in bold

All times Mountain time.

Week 0

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
August 23	2:00 p.m.	Idaho State	UNLV	Allegiant Stadium • Paradise, NV	KVVU	W 38–31	25,723
August 23	4:30 p.m.	Fresno State	Kansas	David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium • Lawrence, KS	FOX	L 7–31	41,525
August 23	5:30 p.m.	Stanford	Hawaii	Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex • Honolulu, HI	CBS	W 23–20	15,194
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 1

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
August 28	3:30 p.m.	No. 25  Boise State	South Florida	Raymond James Stadium • Tampa, FL	ESPN	L 7–34	34,707
August 28	5:00 p.m.	Wyoming	Akron	InfoCision Stadium–Summa Field • Akron, OH	ESPN+	W 10–0	9,138
August 28	8:00 p.m.	No. 24 (FCS)  Stony Brook	San Diego State	Snapdragon Stadium • San Diego, CA	KUSI	W 42–0	20,624
August 29	7:30 p.m.	UNLV	Sam Houston	Shell Energy Stadium • Houston, TX	CBSSN	W 38–21	5,837
August 29	8:30 p.m.	Central Michigan	San Jose State	CEFCU Stadium • San Jose, CA	FS1	L 14–16	14,877
August 30	1:30 p.m.	Bucknell	Air Force	Falcon Stadium • USAF Academy, CO	CBSSN	W 49–13	30,207
August 30	1:30 p.m.	Nevada	No. 2  Penn State	Beaver Stadium • University Park, PA	CBS	L 11–46	106,915
August 30	5:30 p.m.	New Mexico	No. 14  Michigan	Michigan Stadium • Ann Arbor, MI	NBC	L 17–34	110,648
August 30	5:30 p.m.	UTEP	Utah State	Maverik Stadium • Logan, UT	CBSSN	W 28–16	16,448
August 30	7:30 p.m.	Georgia Southern	Fresno State	Valley Children's Stadium • Fresno, CA	FS1	W 42–14	36,801
August 30	8:30 p.m.	Hawaii	Arizona	Arizona Stadium • Tucson, AZ	TNT	L 6–40	42,423
August 30	9:00 p.m.	Colorado State	Washington	Husky Stadium • Seattle, WA	BTN	L 21–38	67,778
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 2

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
September 5	7:00 p.m.	Eastern Washington	Boise State	Albertsons Stadium • Boise, ID	FS1	W 51–14	32,887
September 6	10:00 a.m.	San Jose State	No. 7  Texas	Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX	ABC	L 7–38	100,841
September 6	10:45 a.m.	Utah State	No. 19  Texas A&M	Kyle Field • College Station, TX	SECN	L 22–44	100,026
September 6	1:00 p.m.	Idaho State	New Mexico	University Stadium • Albuquerque, NM	Altitude	W 32–22	17,639
September 6	1:30 p.m.	Fresno State	Oregon State	Reser Stadium • Corvallis, OR	The CW	W 36–27	28,068
September 6	2:00 p.m.	Northern Iowa	Wyoming	War Memorial Stadium • Laramie, WY	Altitude2	W 31–7	25,009
September 6	3:00 p.m.	No. 18 (FCS)  Sacramento State	Nevada	Mackay Stadium • Reno, NV	KNSN-TV	W 20–17	20,535
September 6	5:00 p.m.	Northern Colorado	Colorado State	Canvas Stadium • Fort Collins, CO	Altitude	W 21–17	37,023
September 6	6:00 p.m.	UCLA	UNLV	Allegiant Stadium • Paradise, NV	CBSSN	W 30–23	36,117
September 6	8:15 p.m.	San Diego State	Washington State	Martin Stadium • Pullman, WA	The CW	L 13–36	24,330
September 6	9:59 p.m.	Sam Houston	Hawaii	Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex • Honolulu, HI	Spectrum Sports	W 37–20	11,625
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 3

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
September 12	8:00 p.m.	New Mexico	UCLA	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA	BTN	W 35–10	31,163
September 13	3:00 p.m.	Middle Tennessee	Nevada	Mackay Stadium • Reno, NV	KNSN-TV	L 13–14	16,808
September 13	6:00 p.m.	No. 20  Utah	Wyoming	War Memorial Stadium • Laramie, WY	CBSSN	L 6–31	23,500
September 13	7:45 p.m.	Air Force	Utah State	Maverik Stadium • Logan, UT	FS1	USU 49–30	17,124
September 13	8:00 p.m.	Southern	Fresno State	Valley Children's Stadium • Fresno, CA	KGPE	W 56–7	37,210
September 13	9:59 p.m.	Portland State	Hawaii	Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex • Honolulu, HI	Spectrum Sports	W 23–3	11,936
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 4

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
September 20	10:00 a.m.	UNLV	Miami (OH)	Yager Stadium • Oxford, OH	ESPNU	W 41–38	12,625
September 20	3:00 p.m.	No. 8 (FCS)  Idaho	San Jose State	CEFCU Stadium • San Jose, CA	NBCSBA	W 30–27	13,155
September 20	5:00 p.m.	Nevada	Western Kentucky	Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium • Bowling Green, KY	ESPN+	L 16–31	17,247
September 20	5:00 p.m.	Boise State	Air Force	Falcon Stadium • USAF Academy, CO	CBSSN	BSU 49–37	24,046
September 20	6:00 p.m.	McNeese	Utah State	Maverik Stadium • Logan, UT	KMYU	W 48–7	16,273
September 20	7:30 p.m.	UTSA	Colorado State	Canvas Stadium • Fort Collins, CO	FS1	L 16–17	32,061
September 20	8:15 p.m.	Wyoming	Colorado	Folsom Field • Boulder, CO	ESPN	L 20–37	53,442
September 20	8:30 p.m.	California	San Diego State	Snapdragon Stadium • San Diego, CA	CBSSN	W 34–0	31,369
September 20	9:59 p.m.	Fresno State	Hawaii	Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex • Honolulu, HI (rivlary)	Spectrum Sports	FRES 23–21	13,789
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 5

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
September 27	10:45 a.m.	Utah State	No. 18  Vanderbilt	FirstBank Stadium • Nashville, TN	SECN	L 35–55
September 27	1:30 p.m.	San Diego State	Northern Illinois	Huskie Stadium • DeKalb, IL	ESPN+	W 6–3
September 27	2:00 p.m.	Hawaii	Air Force	Falcon Stadium • USAF Academy, CO (rivalry)	FS1	HAW 44–35
September 27	2:00 p.m.	New Mexico State	New Mexico	University Stadium • Albuquerque, NM (Rio Grande Rivalry)	Altitude	W 38–20
September 27	5:30 p.m.	Appalachian State	Boise State	Albertsons Stadium • Boise, ID	FS1	W 47–14	32,904
September 27	5:30 p.m.	Washington State	Colorado State	Canvas Stadium • Fort Collins, CO	CBSSN	L 3–20
September 27	5:30 p.m.	San Jose State	Stanford	Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA (Bill Walsh Legacy Game)	ACCN	L 29–30
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 6

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
October 4	10:00 a.m.	Air Force	Navy	Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium • Annapolis, MD (Commander-in-Chief's Trophy)	CBS
October 4	1:30 p.m.	Boise State	Notre Dame	Notre Dame Stadium • Notre Dame, IN	NBC
October 3	8:30 p.m.	Colorado State	San Diego State	Snapdragon Stadium • San Diego, CA	CBSSN
October 4	8:30 p.m.	Nevada	Fresno State	Valley Children's Stadium • Fresno, CA	CBSSN
October 3	8:00 p.m.	New Mexico	San Jose State	CEFCU Stadium • San Jose, CA	FS1
October 4	5:00 p.m.	UNLV	Wyoming	War Memorial Stadium • Laramie, WY	CBSSN
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 7

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
October 11	1:30 p.m.	Air Force	UNLV	Allegiant Stadium • Paradise, NV	CBSSN
October 11		New Mexico	Boise State	Albertsons Stadium • Boise, ID
October 10	7:00 p.m.	Fresno State	Colorado State	Canvas Stadium • Fort Collins, CO	CBSSN
October 11	9:59 p.m.	Utah State	Hawaii	Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex • Honolulu, HI	Spectrum Sports
October 11	8:30 p.m.	San Diego State	Nevada	Mackay Stadium • Reno, NV	CBSSN
October 11	5:00 p.m.	San Jose State	Wyoming	War Memorial Stadium • Laramie, WY	CBSSN
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 8

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
October 18	1:30 p.m.	Wyoming	Air Force	Falcon Stadium • USAF Academy, CO	CBSSN
October 18		UNLV	Boise State	Albertsons Stadium • Boise, ID
October 18	5:00 p.m.	Hawaii	Colorado State	Canvas Stadium • Fort Collins, CO	Spectrum Sports
October 18		Nevada	New Mexico	University Stadium • Albuquerque, NM
October 17	7:00 p.m.	San Jose State	Utah State	Maverik Stadium • Logan, UT	CBSSN
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 9

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
October 24	8:00 p.m.	Boise State	Nevada	Mackay Stadium • Reno, NV (rivalry)	CBSSN
October 25	5:30 p.m.	Colorado State	Wyoming	War Memorial Stadium • Laramie, WY (Border War)	CBSSN
October 25		San Diego State	Fresno State	Valley Children's Stadium • Fresno, CA (rivalry)
October 25	1:00 p.m.	Utah State	New Mexico	University Stadium • Albuquerque, NM	Altitude
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 10

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
November 1	10:00 a.m.	Army	Air Force	Falcon Stadium • USAF Academy, CO (Commander-in-Chief's Trophy)	CBS
November 1		Fresno State	Boise State	Albertsons Stadium • Boise, ID (rivalry)
November 1	8:30 p.m.	Hawaii	San Jose State	CEFCU Stadium • San Jose, CA (Dick Tomey Legacy Game)	CBSSN
November 1	1:00 p.m.	New Mexico	UNLV	Allegiant Stadium • Paradise, NV	KVVU
November 1	5:00 p.m.	Wyoming	San Diego State	Snapdragon Stadium • San Diego, CA	CBSSN
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 11

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
November 8		Air Force	San Jose State	CEFCU Stadium • San Jose, CA
November 8		UNLV	Colorado State	Canvas Stadium • Fort Collins, CO
November 8	9:00 p.m.	San Diego State	Hawaii	Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex • Honolulu, HI	Spectrum Sports
November 8	5:30 p.m.	Nevada	Utah State	Maverik Stadium • Logan, UT	CBSSN
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 12

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
November 15	10:00 a.m.	Air Force	UConn	Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field • East Hartford, CT	CBSSN
November 15	8:30 p.m.	Boise State	San Diego State	Snapdragon Stadium • San Diego, CA	CBSSN
November 15	1:00 p.m.	Colorado State	New Mexico	University Stadium • Albuquerque, NM	Altitude
November 15		Wyoming	Fresno State	Valley Children's Stadium • Fresno, CA
November 15	1:30 p.m.	San Jose State	Nevada	Mackay Stadium • Reno, NV	CBSSN
November 15	5:00 p.m.	Utah State	UNLV	Allegiant Stadium • Paradise, NV	CBSSN
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 13

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
November 22	5:00 p.m.	New Mexico	Air Force	Falcon Stadium • USAF Academy, CO	CBSSN
November 22		Colorado State	Boise State	Albertsons Stadium • Boise, ID
November 22	8:30 p.m.	Utah State	Fresno State	Valley Children's Stadium • Fresno, CA	CBSSN
November 21	8:30 p.m.	Hawaii	UNLV	Allegiant Stadium • Paradise, NV	FS1
November 22	12:00 p.m.	Nevada	Wyoming	War Memorial Stadium • Laramie, WY	Altitude
November 22		San Jose State	San Diego State	Snapdragon Stadium • San Diego, CA
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Week 14

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
November 28	1:00 p.m.	Air Force	Colorado State	Canvas Stadium • Fort Collins, CO (rivalry)	FS1
November 28	2:00 p.m.	Boise State	Utah State	Maverik Stadium • Logan, UT	CBS
November 29		Fresno State	San Jose State	CEFCU Stadium • San Jose, CA (Battle for the Valley)
November 29	9:00 p.m.	Wyoming	Hawaii	Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex • Honolulu, HI (rivalry)	Spectrum Sports
November 29	7:00 p.m.	UNLV	Nevada	Mackay Stadium • Reno, NV (Fremont Cannon)	CBSSN
November 28	1:30 p.m.	San Diego State	New Mexico	University Stadium • Albquerque, NM	CBSSN
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Championship game

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
December 5	6:00 p.m.			TBD • TBD	FOX
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Time.

Mountain West records vs. other conferences

2025–2026 records against non-conference foes:

Regular season

Power Four Conferences	Record
ACC	1–0
Big 12	0–2
Big Ten	1–3
Notre Dame	0–0
SEC	0–2
Power 4 Total	2–7
Other FBS Conferences	Record
American	0–1
CUSA	2–0
Independents (Excluding Notre Dame)	0–0
MAC	1–1
Pac-12	1–1
Sun Belt	1–0
Other FBS Total	5–3
FCS Opponents	Record
Football Championship Subdivision	8–0
Total Non-Conference Record	15–10

Mountain West vs Power 4 matchups

This is a list of games the Mountain West has scheduled versus power conference teams (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Notre Dame and SEC). All rankings are from the current AP Poll at the time of the game.

Date	Conference	Visitor	Home	Site	Score
August 23	Big 12	Fresno State	Kansas	David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium • Lawrence, KS	L 7–31
August 23	ACC	Stanford	Hawaii	Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex • Honolulu, HI	W 23–20
August 30	Big Ten	Colorado State	Washington	Husky Stadium • Seattle, WA	L 21–38
August 30	Big 12	Hawaii	Arizona	Arizona Stadium • Tucson, AZ	L 6–40
August 30	Big Ten	Nevada	No. 2 Penn State	Beaver Stadium • University Park, PA	L 11–46
August 30	Big Ten	New Mexico	No. 14 Michigan	Michigan Stadium • Ann Arbor, MI	L 17–34
September 6	SEC	San Jose State	No. 7 Texas	Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX	L 7–38
September 6	Big Ten	UCLA	UNLV	Allegiant Stadium • Paradise, NV	W 30–23
September 6	SEC	Utah State	No. 19 Texas A&M	Kyle Field • College Station, TX	L 22–42
September 12	Big Ten	New Mexico	UCLA	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA
September 13	Big 12	No. 20 Utah	Wyoming	War Memorial Stadium • Laramie, WY
September 20	ACC	California	San Diego State	Snapdragon Stadium • San Diego, CA
September 20	Big 12	Wyoming	Colorado	Folsom Field • Boulder, CO
September 27	ACC	San Jose State	Stanford	Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA
September 27	SEC	Utah State	Vanderbilt	FirstBank Stadium • Nashville, TN
October 4	Independent	Boise State	Notre Dame	Notre Dame Stadium • Notre Dame, IN

Mountain West vs other FBS matchups

The following games include Mountain West teams competing against teams from the American, C-USA, MAC, Pac-12 or Sun Belt.

Date	Conference	Visitor	Home	Site	Score
August 28	American	No. 25 Boise State	South Florida	Raymond James Stadium • Tampa, FL	L 7–34
August 29	MAC	Central Michigan	San Jose State	CEFCU Stadium • San Jose, CA	L 14–16
August 30	Sun Belt	Georgia Southern	Fresno State	Valley Children's Stadium • Fresno, CA	W 42–14
August 30	C-USA	UNLV	Sam Houston	Shell Energy Stadium • Houston, TX	W 38–21
August 30	C-USA	UTEP	Utah State	Maverik Stadium • Logan, UT	W 28–16
August 30	MAC	Wyoming	Akron	InfoCision Stadium–Summa Field • Akron, OH	W 10–0
September 6	Pac-12	Fresno State	Oregon State	Reser Stadium • Corvallis, OR	W 36–27
September 6	C-USA	Sam Houston	Hawaii	Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex • Honolulu, HI	W 37–20
September 6	Pac-12	San Diego State	Washington State	Martin Stadium • Pullman, WA	L 13–36
September 13	C-USA	Middle Tennessee	Nevada	Mackay Stadium • Reno, NV
September 20	American	UTSA	Colorado State	Canvas Stadium • Fort Collins, CO
September 20	C-USA	Nevada	Western Kentucky	Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium • Bowling Green, KY
September 20	MAC	UNLV	Miami (OH)	Yager Stadium • Oxford, OH
September 27	Sun Belt	Appalachian State	Boise State	Albertsons Stadium • Boise, ID
September 27	Pac-12	Washington State	Colorado State	Canvas Stadium • Fort Collins, CO
September 27	C-USA	New Mexico State	New Mexico	University Stadium • Albquerque, NM
September 27	MAC	San Diego State	Northern Illinois	Huskie Stadium • DeKalb, IL
October 4	American	Air Force	Navy	Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium • Annapolis, MD
November 1	American	Army	Air Force	Falcon Stadium • USAF Academy, CO

Mountain West vs FBS independents matchups

The following games include Mountain West teams competing against FBS Independents, which only includes UConn for 2025.

Date	Visitor	Home	Site	Score
November 15	Air Force	UConn	Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field • East Hartford, CT

Mountain West vs. FCS matchups

The following games include Mountain West teams competing against FCS schools.

Date	Visitor	Home	Site	Score
August 23	Idaho State	UNLV	Allegiant Stadium • Paradise, NV	W 38–31
August 28	No. 24 (FCS) Stony Brook	San Diego State	Snapdragon Stadium • San Diego, CA	W 42–0
August 30	Bucknell	Air Force	Falcon Stadium • USAF Academy, CO	W 49–13
September 6	Eastern Washington	Boise State	Albertsons Stadium • Boise, ID	W 51–14
September 6	Northern Colorado	Colorado State	Canvas Stadium • Fort Collins, CO	W 21–17
September 6	No. 18 (FCS) Sacramento State	Nevada	Mackay Stadium • Reno, NV	W 20–17
September 6	Idaho State	New Mexico	University Stadium • Albuquerque, NM	W 32–22
September 6	Northern Iowa	Wyoming	War Memorial Stadium • Laramie, WY	W 31–7
September 13	Southern	Fresno State	Valley Children's Stadium • Fresno, CA
September 13	Portland State	Hawaii	Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex • Honolulu, HI
September 20	Idaho	San Jose State	CEFCU Stadium • San Jose, CA
September 20	McNeese	Utah State	Maverik Stadium • Logan, UT

Awards and honors

Player of the week honors

Week		Offensive				Defensive				Special Teams				Freshman
		Player	Team	Position		Player	Team	Position		Player	Team	Position		Player	Team	Position
Week 0 [15]		Micah Alejado	Hawaii	QB		Kilinahe Mendiola-Jensen	Hawaii	S		Kansei Matsuzawa	Hawaii	K		Micah Alejado	Hawaii	QB
Week 1 [16]		Anthony Colandrea	UNLV	QB		Aamaris Brown	UNLV	DB		Tanner Rinker	Utah State	K		Jalen Dupree	Colorado State	RB
Week 2 [17]		Anthony Colandrea (2)	UNLV	QB		Jadon Pearson	Fresno State	LB		Dylan Lynch	Fresno State	K		Sire Gaines	Boise State	RB
Week 3 [18]		Bryson Barnes	Utah State	QB		Jaxton Eck	New Mexico	LB		Kansei Matsuzawa (2)	Hawaii	K		Samuel Harris	Wyoming	RB
Week 4 [19]		Dylan Riley	Boise State	RB		Dalesean Staley	San Diego State	S		Ramon Villela	UNLV	K		Samuel Harris (2)	Wyoming	RB

References

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