Mountain State

A former conference: seven schools on file. Our membership records under this name start in 1938. 1947 champion: Utah.

1947 standings

TeamConf.OverallAPEloLast 5
Utah6–⁠08–⁠1–⁠11580WWLWT
Denver3–⁠2–⁠15–⁠4–⁠11472WWLWW
Utah State3–⁠36–⁠51436WWWLL
Colorado3–⁠34–⁠51445WLLWL
Colorado State2–⁠3–⁠15–⁠4–⁠11360LLWWL
Wyoming2–⁠44–⁠51334LWLLL
BYU1–⁠53–⁠71313WLLLL

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. AP: the AP poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.

Against other conferences, 1947

Mountain State teams are 15–⁠11–⁠1 outside the conference.

The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from lower divisions count together.

Champions

Most titles

Utah5last 1947

By year

1947Utah
1942Utah
1941Utah
1940Utah
1938Utah

Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.

Schools

  1. BYU1938–⁠19421946–⁠1947
  2. Colorado1938–⁠1947
  3. Colorado State1938–⁠19421945–⁠1947
  4. Denver1938–⁠1947
  5. Utah1938–⁠1947
  6. Utah State1938–⁠19421944–⁠1947
  7. Wyoming1938–⁠19421946–⁠1947
Every school and its years (7)

Members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1938; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
1948ColoradoLeft for Big SevenSource
1938BYUJoined from Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic ConferenceSource
1938ColoradoJoined from Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic ConferenceSource
1938Colorado StateJoined from Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic ConferenceSource
1938DenverJoined from Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic ConferenceSource
1938UtahJoined from Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic ConferenceSource
1938Utah StateJoined from Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic ConferenceSource
1938WyomingJoined from Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic ConferenceSource

Football moves from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the season is the first one played in the new conference, and the date the one the lists or their sources give for the announcement. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 61 team-seasons from 1938. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.