Editing Mountain West Conference (section)

===Divisions===
{{See also|Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game}}
Beginning in 2013, the conference split into two divisions, named the "Mountain Division" and "West Division," of six teams each for football. The Mountain West also added a conference championship game, pitting the winners of the two divisions. This first championship game took place on December 7, 2013, at [[Bulldog Stadium]] in [[Fresno, California]], the home stadium of [[2013 Fresno State Bulldogs football team|Fresno State]], the divisional winner with the higher BCS ranking.<ref>{{cite web |last=Myerberg |first=Paul |date=2013-01-22 |title=Mountain West splits 12 football schools into six-team divisions |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2013/01/22/mountain-west-conference-football-announces-divisions/1856165/ |access-date=2013-08-09 |publisher=USAToday.com}}</ref> Each team played five divisional games and three cross-divisional contests annually.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.themwc.com/genrel/012213aaa.html |title=Mountain West Conference |publisher=Themwc.com |access-date=2013-08-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216214734/http://www.themwc.com/genrel/012213aaa.html |archive-date=2013-02-16}}</ref>
The 2015 championship game featured the Air Force Academy Falcons against the San Diego State University Aztecs. The 2016 championship game featured the San Diego State University Aztecs against the University of Wyoming Cowboys.

On May 20, 2022, the conference approved a new football schedule format, set to take effect in the 2023 season.<ref>{{cite web|first=Heather |last=Dinich|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/33952873 |title=Mountain West Conference to eliminate football divisions in 2023|publisher=ESPN|date=May 20, 2022 |access-date=July 15, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Kirk|last=Kenney|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/aztecs/story/2022-05-20/mountain-west-football-one-division-2023-ncaa-conference-championship-game-san-diego-state-aztecs-sdsu|title=Mountain West will go to single 12-team division for football in 2023|work=The San Diego Union-Tribune|date=May 20, 2022 |access-date=July 15, 2022}}</ref> Under this format, the conference will remove divisions, and instead play a 2–6 format, where each team plays 2 designated rivals every year along with six separate 6-team rotations that flip every other year, such that every team will have at least one home game and one away game against every other team in a three-year cycle (less than the standard length of a college player's career). The MW Championship will also no longer be determined by the winners of the two divisions; the two teams with the highest conference winning percentage will play instead.<ref name=perrivals>{{cite web|first=Brent|last=Briggeman|url=https://gazette.com/sports/air-force-sports/mountain-west-reveals-football-scheduling-format-for-its-post-division-era-starting-in-2023/article_e265ca64-03c3-11ed-98b2-a36150d525be.html|title=Mountain West reveals football scheduling format for its post-division era starting in 2023|publisher=The Gazette|date=July 14, 2022 |access-date=July 15, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Jason|last=Turner|url=https://www.hjnews.com/sports/usu/mountain-west-releases-football-schedule-from-2023-25/article_e46f1299-867c-50c2-b764-990793ff1244.html|title=Mountain West releases football schedule for 2023–25|publisher=The Herald Journal|date=July 14, 2022 |access-date=July 15, 2022}}</ref> The designated rivals under this system are as follows:

{| class="wikitable"
|+ MW Permanent Matchups<ref name=perrivals/>
|-
! scope="col" | School
! scope="col" | Rival 1
! scope="col" | Rival 2
|-
| '''Air Force'''
| Colorado State
| Wyoming
|-
| '''Boise State'''
| New Mexico
| Utah State
|-
| '''Colorado State'''
| Air Force
| Wyoming
|-
| '''Fresno State'''
| Nevada
| San José State
|-
| '''Hawaii'''
| San Diego State
| UNLV
|-
| '''Nevada'''
| Fresno State
| UNLV
|-
| '''New Mexico'''
| Boise State
| San José State
|-
| '''San Diego State'''
| Hawaii
| Utah State
|-
| '''San José State'''
| Fresno State
| New Mexico
|-
| '''UNLV'''
| Hawaii
| Nevada
|-
| '''Utah State'''
| Boise State
| San Diego State
|-
| '''Wyoming'''
| Air Force
| Colorado State
|}

Prior to this, the division format was as follows:

{| class="wikitable" align=center style="text-align:center"
|+ MW Football Divisions {{nowrap|(2013–2022)}}
|-
!Mountain Division
!West Division
|-
|Air Force
|Fresno State
|-
|Boise State
|Hawai{{okina}}i
|-
|Colorado State
|Nevada
|-
|New Mexico
|UNLV
|-
|Utah State
|San Diego State
|-
|Wyoming
|San José State
|}
* No other MW sport is split into divisions—including women's soccer, the only other conference sport with 12 competing schools (with Colorado College as the 12th member).