COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. >> The Mountain West Conference will repeal its two-division format in football for the 2023 season.
The conference announced today that the two teams with the highest winning percentage will go head-to-head in the league championship game. The decision came two days after the NCAA scrapped requirements dictating how conferences can determine their champions and the Pac-12 scrapped its two-division format.
The two-division format will remain in place for the 2022 season.
A planning model and tiebreaking procedures are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Other conferences are expected to follow, most notably the 14-team Atlantic Coast Conference. The ACC wants to implement a new planning model as early as 2023.
To have a conference title game, NCAA rules required leagues to previously be split into divisions if they could not play a full round-robin schedule. But those rules were scrapped by the NCAA Division I Council. The 10-man Big 12 eventually decided to continue their title game in part without divisions to raise the winner’s profile for playoff consideration.
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