Murray's Mountain West football rankings
Each week, RGJ sports writer Chris Murray will rank the Mountain West football teams. Here are this week's rankings, with each team's overall record, next opponent and a comment.
Comment: Last week, I compared Ryan Finley getting hurt and Brett Rypien stepping in for him as a Nick Graziano-Colin Kaepernick situation. In his first college start, Rypien went 24-of-35 for 321 yards and three touchdown against a Power 5 team, albeit a bad one. Boise State has a keeper in Rypien.
Comment: Air Force's defense of the Commander-in-Chief Trophy starts this week when it travels to Navy.