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According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, the Mountain West Conference is reportedly “engaged in a major effort to keep its eight-school core together, which will include making one-time payments of guaranteed money to the schools.”

The guaranteed payments to all eight schools appear to be an attempt to fend off pushes from the Pac-12, which had previously poached Boise State, Fresno State, Colorado State and San Diego State.