Mountain West to look at changing way football title game configured
The Mountain West Conference will discuss at its spring meetings the possibility of changing the way its football championship game is configured starting in 2016.
Commissioner Craig Thompson told CBSSports.com on Saturday that it could be in the best interest of the Mountain West to create its own metric for how it chooses the two “best” teams that play in the title game.
“We’re having the game at the risk of a $6 million New Year’s Bowl,” Thompson said.
The $6 million is the amount Boise State earned for itself and the 11 conference partners in January for reaching the Fiesta Bowl — one of the so-called “Golden Ticket” bowls in the College Football Playoffs. The Broncos beat Arizona 38-30 in the bowl game.
Also: The UNLV men’s golf team will make its 27th straight appearance in an NCAA Regional, a record for most consecutive appearances. The Rebels will be the sixth seed at the regional played at The Sagamore Club in Noblesville, Ind., beginning Thursday.
UNLV is ranked No. 24 nationally. Senior Kurt Kitayama captured the individual title and the Rebels finished second at the Mountain West Championship in Tucson, Ariz., on Sunday.
The UNLV women’s team also is a No. 6 seed in an NCAA Regional and will begin play Thursday at Snow Canyon Country Club in St. George, Utah.
Dantley Walker, a former Lincoln County High star who spent two years at UNLV, is transferring to Chaminade, a Division II program in Honolulu.
A 5-foot-11-inch shooting guard, Walker was a seldom-used reserve as a redshirt freshman for the Rebels. He appeared in 11 games, averaged 2.4 points and shot 40 percent (8 of 20) from 3-point range.
Walker will be eligible for the 2015-16 season. Chaminade and UNLV could meet in the Maui Invitational in November.
Walker is the all-time leading scorer in Nevada prep history with 3,304 points. As a senior at Lincoln County in 2011, he averaged 36.2 points.
The 51s game against the Albuquerque Isotopes on Monday was rained out. The game will be made up us a part of a doubleheader beginning at 4:05 p.m. PDT today at Isotopes Park in Albuquerque, N.M.