The 2005 Mountain West Conference football season was the 7th since eight former members of the Western Athletic Conference banded together to form the MW.
Texas Christian University was added as the conference's 9th member in 2005, and won the conference championship in their first season since moving over from
Conference USA
Conference USA (C-USA or CUSA) is an intercollegiate athletic conference whose current member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports. C-USA's offices are l ...
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Coaching changes
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Bronco Mendenhall
Marc Bronco Clay Mendenhall (born February 21, 1966) is an American football coach who most recently coached at The University of Virginia. He stepped down after the 2021 season. Mendenhall joined Virginia in 2015 after spending the previous elev ...
took over at
BYU, replacing
Gary Crowton.
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Mike Sanford took over at
UNLV, replacing
John Robinson John Robinson may refer to:
Academics
*John Thomas Romney Robinson (1792–1882), Irish astronomer and physicist
* John J. Robinson (1918–1996), historian and author of ''Born in Blood''
*John Talbot Robinson (1923–2001), paleontologist
*John ...
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Kyle Whittingham took over at
Utah, replacing
Urban Meyer.
Bowl games
Awards
*Coach of the Year:
Gary Patterson, TCU
*Offensive Player of the Year: RB
DonTrell Moore
DonTrell Jamar Moore (born September 25, 1982) is a former American football running back who last played for the New Mexico Stars of the Indoor Football League (IFL). An undrafted free agent in the 2006 NFL Draft, Moore eventually signed with th ...
, Sr, New Mexico
*Defensive Player of the Year: DB
Eric Weddle, Jr, Utah
*Freshman of the Year: RB
Aaron Brown, TCU
All Conference Team
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