2023 Mountain West Conference football season

The 2023 Mountain West Conference football season is the 25th season of College football for the Mountain West Conference. It is part of the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season. 12 teams competed in the conference during the season. The season began on August 26 and will conclude on December 2 with the Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game. The full schedule for the season was released on March 2, 2023.

Conference changes
Prior to the 2023 season, the Mountain West Conference announced that it would eliminate divisions, with the two teams with the best conference records now playing in the championship game instead of division winners.

Preseason Poll
The Preseason Media Poll was released July 19, 2023. Boise State has been selected as the preseason favorite to claim the 2023 Mountain West football regular-season title.

Preseason All-Conference team
Mountain West preseason awards and all-conference teams were announced on July 19.

Coaching changes

 * On November 28, 2022, UNLV announced that they had fired head coach Marcus Arroyo. Arroyo posted a 7–23 record with the school over three years. UNLV announced on December 6, 2022, that former Missouri head coach Barry Odom would become the new head coach for the 2023 season.

Mid-season changes

 * On November 12, Boise State announced that they had fired head coach Andy Avalos. Boise State's defensive coordinator Spencer Danielson was named as the interim head coach. On December 3, Danielson was promoted to the school's permanent head coach.

Post-season changes

 * On November 13, San Diego State head coach Brady Hoke announced that he would retire at the conclusion of the season. On November 29, the school announced that Sean Lewis would become the head coach for the 2024 season. Lewis had previously been offensive coordinator at Colorado and the head coach of Kent State.
 * On November 25, New Mexico announced that they had fired head coach Danny Gonzales after four seasons as head coach. Gonzales had posted a 11–32 record during his time at the school. On December 6, New Mexico announced Bronco Mendenhall as the new head coach for the 2024 season. Mendenhall had previously been head coach at BYU and Virginia.
 * On December 1, Nevada announced that they had fired head coach Ken Wilson. Wilson had gone 4–20 in his two seasons with the school. On December 4, Nevada announced Jeff Choate as the new head coach for 2024. Choate had previously been the co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach at Texas and the head coach of Montana State.
 * On December 6, Wyoming head coach Craig Bohl announced that we would retire following Wyoming's 2023 bowl game. Wyoming's defensive coordinator Jay Sawvel was promoted to head coach for 2024.

Schedule
The schedule for the 2023 Mountain West football season was announced on March 2, 2023.

All times Mountain time.

Selection of teams

 * Bowl eligible (7): Air Force, Boise State, Fresno State, San Jose State, UNLV, Utah State, Wyoming
 * Bowl ineligible (5): Colorado State, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State

Mountain West records vs other conferences
2023–2024 records against non-conference foes:

Postseason

Mountain West vs Power 5 matchups
This is a list of games the Mountain West has scheduled versus power conference teams (ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac-12, Notre Dame and SEC). All rankings are from the current AP Poll at the time of the game.

Mountain West vs Group of Five matchups
The following games include Mountain West teams competing against teams from the American, C-USA, MAC, or Sun Belt.

Mountain West vs FBS independents matchups
The following games include Mountain West teams competing against FBS Independents, which includes Army, UConn, or UMass.

Mountain West Individual Awards
The following individuals received postseason honors as voted by the Mountain West Conference football coaches at the end of the season.

All-conference teams
The following players were selected as part of the Mountain West's All-Conference Teams.

National awards

 * Jim Thorpe Award: Trey Taylor, Air Force

All-Americans
Currently, the NCAA compiles consensus all-America teams in the sports of Division I-FBS football and Division I men's basketball using a point system computed from All-America teams named by coaches associations or media sources. The system consists of three points for a first-team honor, two points for second-team honor, and one point for third-team honor. Honorable mention and fourth team or lower recognitions are not accorded any points. College Football All-American consensus teams are compiled by position and the player accumulating the most points at each position is named first team consensus all-American. Currently, the NCAA recognizes All-Americans selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, and the WCFF to determine Consensus and Unanimous All-Americans. Any player named to the First Team by all five of the NCAA-recognized selectors is deemed a Unanimous All-American.

Home game attendance
Bold – At or Exceeded capacity †Season High

NFL draft
The NFL draft will be held at Campus Martius Park in Detroit. The following list includes all Mountain West players in the draft.