The 2010 Mountain West Conference football season was the 12th since eight former members of the
Western Athletic Conference banded together to form the MW.
This was the last season for two of the conference's charter members.
Utah left the MW to join the
Pac-10
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in 2011. At the same time, the Utes'
historic rival,
BYU, will become a
football independent and join the
West Coast Conference
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in other sports. In the 2011 season,
Boise State
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joined from the WAC, while three other WAC members,
Fresno State,
Hawaii and
Nevada, have accepted invitations to join the MW in 2012. For more details on these developments, see
2010 NCAA conference realignment
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.
Previous season
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Education
* Tanzania Commission for Universities, regulatory body for Universities in Tanzania
* Texas Christian University, a private university in Fort Worth, Texas
** TCU Horned Frogs, the athletic programs of the school
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won its second Mountain West Conference Championship during an undefeated regular season. TCU beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.
Rankings
Mountain West vs. BCS matchups
Schedule
Week one
Week two
Week three
Week four
Week five
Week six
Week seven
Week eight
Week nine
Week ten
Week eleven
Week twelve
Week thirteen
Week fourteen
Statistics
;Team
* Scoring offense: TCU (520 points, 43.3 average)
* Scoring defense: TCU (137 points, 11.4 average)
* Rushing offense: Air Force (317.9 yards per game)
* Rushing defense: TCU (89.2 yards per game)
* Pass offense: San Diego State (297.0 yards per game)
* Total offense: TCU (491.5 yards per game)
Bowl games
Mountain West teams finished 4–1 in bowl games in 2011, the best record out of all conferences
to win the
Bowl Challenge Cup
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for the second consecutive year.
Home attendance
References
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