MW’s Gloria Nevarez favors computers for second football tiebreaker

Mountain West commissioner Gloria Nevarez would prefer everyone be happy.

That wasn’t possible. Two football teams were going to feel slighted.

It was a unique situation. No doubt about it.

The conference season came down to a four-way tie for first place , out of which UNLV and Boise State were chosen by computer metrics to compete in the league’s championship game Friday in Boise, Idaho.

It meant New Mexico and San Diego State were on the outside looking in. And not very fired up about the results.

“When we made the decision to go to computer rankings, it was very deliberate,” Nevarez said. “Head-to-head (results) are first and foremost, but when you don’t play everyone and have a four-way tie, you have to break it somehow.”

The decision was, in part, thought to be a way to set up