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The Mountain West conference is reportedly "amid a significant push to keep its core of eight schools together, which includes one-time payments of guaranteed money to the schools," according to ESPN's Pete Thamel.
The guaranteed payments to all eight schools appear to be an effort to stave off any approaches from the Pac-12, which already poached Boise State, Fresno State, Colorado State and San Diego State.
Those payments also include "large payments" to UNLV and Air Force as rumors circulate that the former is being pursued by the Pac-12 and the latter by the American Athletic Conference.