2010 Mountain West Conference football season

2010 Mountain West Conference football season
LeagueNCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
SportFootball
DurationSeptember 2, 2010
through January 10, 2011
Number of teams9
TV partner(s)Mtn., CBS College Sports, Versus
2011 NFL Draft
Top draft pickQB Andy Dalton, TCU
Picked byCincinnati Bengals, 35th overall
Regular Season
Football seasons
← 2009
2011 →
2010 Mountain West Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 2 TCU $   8 0     13 0  
Utah   7 1     10 3  
Air Force   5 3     9 4  
San Diego State   5 3     9 4  
BYU   5 3     7 6  
Colorado State   2 6     3 9  
UNLV   2 6     2 11  
Wyoming   1 7     3 9  
New Mexico   1 7     1 11  
  • $ – Conference champion and BCS representative as top non-AQ school to meet automatic qualification criteria
As of January 11, 2011
Rankings from AP Poll

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 in 2011. At the same time, the Utes' historic rival, BYU, will become a football independent and join the West Coast Conference in other sports. In the 2011 season, Boise State joined from the WAC, while three other WAC members, Fresno State, Hawaiʻi and Nevada, have accepted invitations to join the MW in 2012. For more details on these developments, see 2010 NCAA conference realignment.