San Jose State is in the midst of its best football run ever, but the Mountain West could be crumbling around the Spartans.
San Jose State finishes warming up before a game against Sacramento State at CEFCU Stadium in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. If the golden rule is “do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” conference re-alignment has the NCAA scrambling to do and undo everywhere.Colorado State, San Diego State, Fresno State and Boise State from the Mountain West, the league announced Thursday.
Yet the conference realignment news is certainly troublesome for San Jose State and the other programs remaining in the Mountain West. If the Spartans were to seek a new conference, they may not be high on the wish lists of other leagues. The criteria athletic conferences have used to identify possible schools in conference realignment include media value, geographic fit, academic reputation and competitive success — particularly in revenue-generating sports.
San Jose’s options are to stay in the Mountain West, which could essentially dissolve in 2026, become an Independent football program , find a different conference to welcome them in or downshift into the lower-level Football Championship Subdivision.With the Mountain West crumbling around SJSU, its standing in the NCAA looks to weaken. Conferences gain strength in numbers, and the league is trending in the wrong direction there.
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