Everything to know from Fresno State's final Mountain West Media Days

LAS VEGAS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Mountain West players are gathering successful Las Vegas arsenic we inch person to a caller play of assemblage football.

It is the last Mountain West Media Days for Fresno State Football earlier the Bulldogs articulation their caller conference, the Pac-12, adjacent season.

Day 1 is each astir the players and their hype to get the play rolling. Day 2 volition absorption connected the coaches.

Action News sports manager Stephen Hicks is successful Las Vegas, breaking down everything you request to cognize astir MW Media Days:

Boise State projected to decorativeness 1st, Bulldogs to decorativeness 5th

Defending Mountain West Champions Boise State has been selected arsenic the preseason favourite to triumph the conference.

The Broncos earned 35 of 39 first-place media votes and 464 full points to pb the preseason canvass for the 15th consecutive season.

Boise State finished past play ranked wrong the apical 10 successful the College Football Playoff and earned a bye into the CFP quarterfinals, wherever they fell to Penn State successful the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl.

Matt Entz's archetypal play astatine the helm of the Fresno State Football programme is projected to extremity successful a fifth-place finish.

2025 Mountain West Predicted Order of Finish
1. Boise State (35)
2. UNLV (4)
3. San José State
4. Colorado State
5. Fresno State
6. Air Force
7. Hawai'i
8. San Diego State
9. Utah State
10. Wyoming
11. New Mexico
12. Nevada

The last play successful the Mountain West Conference

Five teams are leaving the Mountain West Conference for the Pac-12 aft this season.

"We truly privation to enactment successful the infinitesimal and convey those pupil athletes for the bequest that is the Mountain West," Mountain West commissioner Gloria Nevarez said.

Fresno State, Boise State, Colorado State, San Diego State and Utah State volition articulation Oregon State, Washington State and the recently added Texas State Bobcats to betterment the Pac-12 league adjacent shot season.

The Mountain West and Pac-12 are presently successful a ineligible quality astir poaching fees.

"We're committed to doing what we bash good concern arsenic accustomed and we're looking guardant to this season," Nevarez said.

Al'zillion Hamilton lone Bulldog to beryllium named preseason All-MW

Fresno State elder cornerback Al'zillion Hamilton earned his archetypal vocation preseason All-Mountain West designation connected Wednesday.

"It's lone preseason. I privation my sanction connected the result astatine the extremity of the year, I privation my sanction connected that," Hamilton said.

Hamilton had his sanction successful the transportation portal this offseason but returned to Fresno State aft a speech his dada had with caput manager Matt Entz.

"After I talked with Entz I said 'this is the feline here," Alfonso Hamilton said. "I said 'I don't cognize what you gotta bash but you gotta get backmost to Fresno.'"

"He wants america to beryllium the astir carnal squad connected the field. It's a batch of lifting and a batch of mentality that's what it is," Al'zillion said.

The elder Bulldog has the astir games played successful a Bulldog azygous with 42 entering this year. In 2024, helium was 1 of the nation's apical corners, ranking 10th successful the FBS successful passes defended with an mean of 1.2 per game.

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