WAC Championship Game

The Western Athletic Conference football championship game was a short-lived annual postseason college football game played to determine the champion of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).

WAC football championship game
Conference football championship
Sport	Football
Conference	Western Athletic Conference
Played	1996–1998
Last contest	1998
Most championships	Air Force, BYU, Colorado State (1)
TV partner(s)	ESPN on ABC
Host stadiums
Sam Boyd Stadium (1996–1998)
Host locations
Whitney, Nevada (1996–1998)

History

The Western Athletic Conference staged a conference title football game during the three years (1996–1998) the league consisted of sixteen members. During this time, the league was split into two divisions, Pacific and Mountain, with eight teams in each division. The top finisher in each division played for the championship, which was held at Sam Boyd Stadium in the Las Vegas Valley. When conference membership was cut in half in 1999 with the formation of the Mountain West Conference, both the championship game and two-division format were discontinued. All participants in the three title games were among the defections to Mountain West.^[1]

Results

Results by year

Below are the results from all WAC Football Championship Games played. The winning team appears in bold font, on a background of their primary team color. Rankings are from the AP Poll released prior to the game.

Year	Mountain		Pacific		Site	Attendance	Ref
1996	6 BYU Cougars	28	20 Wyoming Cowboys	25OT	Sam Boyd Stadium • Whitney, NV	41,238	[2]
1997	New Mexico Lobos	13	20 Colorado State Rams	41		12,706	[3]
1998	17 Air Force Falcons	20	BYU Cougars	13		32,745	[4]

Results by team

Team	Appearances	Record	PCT.	PF	PA
BYU	2	1–1	.500	41	45
Air Force	1	1–0	1.000	20	13
Colorado State	1	1–0	1.000	41	13
New Mexico	1	0–1	.000	13	41
Wyoming	1	0–1	.000	25	28

See also

• List of NCAA Division I FBS conference championship games