 On December 10, 2010, the University of Hawaii at Mānoa accepted a bid to become the 10th member of the conference for football only.These changes would leave the Mountain West Conference with 10 teams for the 2012 football season.During the era of football's Bowl Championship Series (BCS), which was replaced by the College Football Playoff (CFP) in 2014, the MW champion qualified for a BCS bowl four times after the BCS formula was tweaked to allow teams from non-BCS conferences to play in BCS bowls if ranked in the top 12.