Computer rankings to figure out MWC title game

• Paolo Uggetti, ESPNNov 25, 2023, 08:09 PM ET

The Mountain West title game– and its host– will be chosen by computer systems and revealed Sunday, the conference said in a news release Saturday.Following San José State

‘s upset of UNLV, both teams and Boise State sit at 6-2 in conference play.But rather of using point differential or any other factor like head-to-head(Boise State and UNLV did not deal with each other)to figure out the tiebreaker, the conference will instead use “choose computer rankings”to determine which two teams will play for the title next weekend.” The computer rankings will identify the two highest-ranked tier teams to take part in the national championship, “the conference said in its declaration.”Once those two groups are identified the head-to-head result will figure out the host.”The 4 computer rankings the Mountain West uses are Anderson and Hester; Colley

Matrix; Massey and Wolfe. Each computer system’s final national ranking for each team represent a 4th of the tiebreaker score, and the two teams with the best typical ranking play in the champion game.Headed into today, UNLV was considerably ahead of both Boise State and San Jose State in all 4 computer systems and is all however guaranteed a spot in the championship game. It ends up being a question of if SJSU’s win against UNLV will be enough to raise it ahead of Boise State, which beat SJSU and was directly ahead of the Spartans in all 4 surveys last week.If SJSU vaults Boise, it will host UNLV on Saturday in the rematch due to the head-to-head win.The conference installed this tiebreaker procedure for this season after it dissolved the divisions.Boise State, San Jose State and UNLV all have identical conference records and their particular point differentials for the season are also almost the exact same for conference play. The Broncos boast a point differential of plus-99, while the Spartans have a plus-92 and UNLV– the surprise of the season– has a plus-97. Must UNLV be picked, it would be the Rebels ‘very first Mountain West championship appearance.ESPN’s Kyle Bonagura added to this report.