WAC Football News

SMU will face the Nevada Wolf Pack from the Western Athletic Conference in the 2009 Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl, Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl Executive Director David A. K. Matlin announced today.

By weekend's end, a committee made up of Western Athletic Conference athletic directors, Commissioner Karl Benson and the WAC's bowl partners will have made a decision on where the Nevada Wolf Pack football team is headed.

The Nevada Wolf Pack men's basketball just might be the most confident 2-3 team in the nation.

Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . . Don't feel sorry for Tiger Woods. The second he signed his first $50 million endorsement deal for Nike he knew what he was getting himself into.

Saturday is the last Bronco game of the regular season. If they pull out a win against the New Mexico State Aggies, the Broncos will be the WAC champions.

Already guaranteed at least a share of the regular-season title in the Western Athletic Conference, the sixth-ranked Boise State Broncos want to leave no doubt which team is the cream of the WAC crop as they close out the campaign with a meeting against New Mexico State at home this weekend.Last week the Broncos, who enter this week as one of only ...

The Boise State Broncos needed one Big 12 Conference team to lose on Saturday to improve their chances of getting into a BCS bowl game.

The crazy coaching carousel in college football is officially off and running for the off-season. The University of Virginia made headlines over the weekend by firing Al Groh, a Virginia alum.

Known throughout the Utah State University football program as the "Grass Valley trio," James Brindley, Brennan McFadden and Chris Ulinski all took to the field for the final time in their college football careers Saturday.

A glow streamed from athletic director Gene Bleymaier's suite high above Boise State's funky blue turf.

Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . . What would it mean for the Nevada Wolf Pack football team to beat Boise State on Friday night? Well, other than a Western Athletic Conference title, not much as far as this season is concerned.

A battle for first place in the Western Athletic Conference takes the spotlight on Friday night, as the sixth-ranked Boise State Broncos host the surging Nevada Wolf Pack at Bronco Stadium.

Boise State could go unbeaten and not play in one of the five BCS bowl games for the second straight year.

At the 2009 Western Athletic Conference banquet on Sunday night at the Orleans, three Fresno State Bulldogs earned All-WAC honors as voted on by the league coaches.

Leon-Wright Jackson hit the end zone on a five-yard run in overtime to give the visiting Hawaii Warriors a 17-10 win against the San Jose State Spartans in Western Athletic Conference action at Spartan Stadium.

Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . . We are now fully submerged into the Golden Era of Nevada Wolf Pack football.

For decades, the Nevada Wolf Pack have been known for their prolific aerial attack whether in the Big West, Big Sky or now the pass-happy Western Athletic Conference.

The next month will be a Pat Hill debate in this town. There's no way around that.

Chris Ault was absolutely giddy about his Nevada Wolf Pack defense last Saturday afternoon.

With a pair of 65-59 victories under their belt, the Fresno State Bulldogs will conclude their inaugural road trip of the season with a visit to a former NBA facility for a non-conference game against Seattle University .