When officiating is in the news, it's seldom a good week for the conference.
And for the Mountain West, this has been a particularly bad week, having been forced to issue statements on back-to-back days over the botched handling at the end of a game Wednesday between Boise State and Colorado State that created national headlines and sparked discussion on TV and sports talk radio.
That controversy came after the conference released a statement last Saturday saying an inbounds pass in the New Mexico-San Diego State game wasn't properly handled.
Two such incidents in less than a week have made the Mountain West the object of derision and put the conference on defense regarding its officials.