LEFT – Utah State wide receiver Terrell Vaughn runs with the ball in a game against Air Force; MIDDLE – Boise State running back George Holani (24) runs with the ball against Utah State (AP Photo/Steve Conner); RIGHT – San Jose State quarterback Chevan Cordeiro (2) runs with the ball in the first half of the Idaho Potato Bowl (AP Photo/Steve Conner) Preseason lists are loads of fun. Everybody does one and everybody reads them (or at least skims them). All-conference teams are often stage one of the media ramping up to the start of the seasons (watch list season, which has just arrived, is stage two). With everyone making their own lists, it’s worth collating all of the teams to find out which players are really considered the best in the Mountain West prior to the 2023 season. Now, this isn’t just re-purposing the preseason all-conference teams into voters for a new all-conference team (but that will happen later). It’s a study to see how often each player showed up on these teams and seeing which players are universally seen as the best and which players are a bit more polarizing. There are four tiers in this study and