... seemed destined for great change.  

Nebraska and Colorado had fled the Big 12, which looked to collapse around a monster conference developing in the West, and the Mountain West Conference looked poised to be the overwhelming victor of it all after securing Boise State from the WAC, and having it's apparent pick of the Big 12 leftovers.  

One week later, the Big 12 has become a solid 10 teams, the Pac-10 was left scrambling for a 12th member, the Big Ten has dozed back to sleep, and the Mountain West was left on the outside looking in.

Let's look at exactly how close the Mountain West was to becoming a major conference.  

As of last week, the conference had the following schools secured for the 2011 season...

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