Utah State celebrates after defeating San Diego State throughout an NCAA faculty soccer recreation for the Mountain West Convention Championship, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, in Carson, Calif. The MW is reportedly more likely to eradicate divisions in 2023. John McCoy, Related Press
Divisions could quickly be a factor of the previous in faculty soccer, the Mountain West Convention included.
On Wednesday, Motion Community’s Brett McMurphy reported that the MW is in discussions to eradicate its Mountain and West divisions forward of the 2023 faculty soccer season.
Sources instructed McMurphy that the convention is “giving sturdy consideration” to the concept, with one supply telling McMurphy that the transfer is “probably.”
The NCAA Soccer Oversight Committee is at present a proposal by the Pac-12 that might eradicate the requirement for conferences with 12 or extra groups to have divisions with the intention to maintain a convention championship recreation (conferences with lower than 12 groups at present should have a round-robin schedule with the intention to maintain a convention title recreation).
If the proposal is accepted, leagues of any dimension might play with out divisions, however nonetheless maintain convention championship video games.
Conferences wouldn’t must eradicate divisions, however it could be an choice the place it at present is just not.
With out divisions, a convention might assure that its two finest groups play one another within the convention championship recreation, theoretically placing the winner in higher place to make the Faculty Soccer Playoff or a New 12 months’s Six bowl.
Final season, the Utah State Aggies received the MW for the primary time in program historical past, beating San Diego State. The Aggies and Aztecs have been two of 4 MW groups that completed the season with 10 or extra wins.
At present, the MW has two divisions, the Mountain (Air Drive, Boise State, Colorado State, New Mexico, Utah State and Wyoming) and the West (Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada, San Diego State, San Jose State and UNLV).