2025 Mountain West Conference football season

The 2025 Mountain West Conference football season is the 27th season of college football for the Mountain West Conference. It is part of the 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season. 12 teams are competing in the conference during the season. The season began on August 23, 2025, and conclude with the Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game on December 5, 2025. The full season schedule was released on February 20, 2025.

Conference realignment

The 2025 is the final season before major realignment for the Mountain West Conference. Five schools – Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, and Utah State – will all depart the Mountain West after 2025 to join the Pac-12 Conference. Two schools will join the Mountain West in 2026 as football members to replace the departing schools. UTEP will join as a full member of the Mountain West, while Northern Illinois And North Dakota State will join as football-only associate members. Additionally, Hawaii will become a full-member of the Mountain West beginning in 2026. Hawaii had been a football-only member of the conference since joining in 2012, with the Western Athletic Conference being the previous primary conference.

Coaches

Coaching changes

• On December 4, 2024, Fresno State announced that Matt Entz would become the new permanent head coach beginning in 2025. Entz had previously been the associated head coach at USC
• On December 6, 2024, Utah State announced that they had hired Bronco Mendenhall away from New Mexico to become their head coach for 2025. On December 14, 2024, New Mexico announced Jason Eck as their new head coach for 2025. Eck had previously been head coach at Idaho.
• On December 8, 2024, UNLV head coach Barry Odom was announced as the new head coach of Purdue in the Big Ten Conference. On December 12, 2024, UNLV announced that Dan Mullen would be the new head coach for the 2025 season. Mullen had previously been head coach of Florida in the SEC.

Head coaches

Mid-season changes

• On October 19, Colorado State announced that they had fired head coach Jay Norvell. Norvell had posted an 18–26 record during his time at the school. Defensive coordinator Tyson Summers was named interim head coach for the remainder of the season.

Preseason

Preseason Poll

The Preseason Media Poll was released July 16, 2025. Boise State was selected as the preseason favorite to claim the 2025 Mountain West football regular-season title.

Preseason All-Conference team

Mountain West preseason awards and all-conference teams were announced on July 16.

Awards

All-conference team

Rankings

Schedule

The schedule was released on February 20, 2025.

All times Mountain time.

Week 0

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Championship game

Postseason

Bowl Games

Mountain West records vs. other conferences

2025–2026 records against non-conference foes:

Regular season

Mountain West vs Power 4 matchups

This is a list of games the Mountain West has scheduled versus power conference teams (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Notre Dame and SEC). All rankings are from the current AP Poll at the time of the game.

Mountain West vs other FBS matchups

The following games include Mountain West teams competing against teams from the American, C-USA, MAC, Pac-12 or Sun Belt.

Mountain West vs FBS independents matchups

The following games include Mountain West teams competing against FBS Independents, which only includes UConn for 2025.

Mountain West vs. FCS matchups

The following games include Mountain West teams competing against FCS schools.

Awards and honors

Player of the week honors

Mountain West Individual Awards

The following individuals received postseason honors as voted by the Mountain West Conference football coaches at the end of the season.

All-conference teams

The following players were selected as part of the Mountain West's All-Conference Teams.

References