The sportsbook college football odds on Mountain West teams will have nine teams on the board. That is the same number of teams that they have had in college football odds at the online sportsbook but Utah will be leaving the conference while Boise State is coming on board. It looked for a while like the Mountain West might get a number of teams if the Big 12 disbanded but that did not happen.
Sportsbook odds this season will not be impacted by the conference changes but they will be affected in 2011. The loss of Utah will hurt the conference but the addition of Boise State almost makes up for the loss of the Utes. The Mountain West has said that they will stay at nine teams for the foreseeable future. The conference would have liked to expand to 12 teams so they could get a college football conference title game but that did not happen. It was looking like the Mountain West might get some Big 12 teams but Texas decided to stay in the conference and the rest of the teams followed.
The Mountain West may still be able to get an automatic invitation to a BCS bowl game in the future but the addition of three teams sure would have helped. It appears that the conferences are going to remain the same now that Nebraska moved to the Big 10, Colorado to the Pac-10, Utah to the Pac-10 and Boise State to the Mountain West. The big losers of the conference shakeups look to be the Big 12 and the Mountain West. Neither conference has enough schools to get a conference football championship game.
The interesting part of the college changes in the conference will be the schedules. Boise State is a national football power so it will be interesting to see how their schedule for future football seasons plays out. Utah is also a very good football team and they should immediately become a contender in the Pac-10 when they join in 2011. The schedule for Nebraska in the Big 10 will also be interesting to watch at the online sportsbook as the Cornhuskers have looked much better under head coach Bo Pellini. They could immediately become a force in the Big 10 in football when they join the conference.