​With the Mountain West changing, I thought it would be fun to go back and highlight the best players, games, and teams since the last phase of conference realignment 13 years ago. Previously, I’ve covered Top 10 football players, Top 10 basketball players, Top 10 Football Teams, and Top 10 Basketball Teams. Today’s list covers the Top 10 Football GamesA lot of the data I reference comes from the aptly named collegefootballdata.com. It’s a great resource if you know how to navigate around the site. I spent some time looking around to see what they have, and I noticed they had an “Excitement Index” for each game. When I saw that, I thought it might be interesting to use that to gauge the top 10 Mountain West games since 2013, when the conference last went through realignment. The alternative was to watch all 1,200+ games the conference has played since then, which I would love to do, but unfortunately I don’t have the time for that.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe “Excitement Index” is based on large swings in win probability during the game, meaning it scores high for games that were upsets, experienced a large number of lead changes, or had a wild ending. When I first got the data, a lot of the higher rated games were against FCS teams. They were only rated high because the Mountain West team struggled against them, causing the win probability to drastically change (i.e. started with a 99% chance of winning that dropped to 60%) However, that doesn’t automatically mean those games are “exciting.” In fact, fans would probably look back with mixed feelings on those games, even if their team won.So, as I’ve done with everything else in this series, I adjusted the numbers:I normalized the Excitement Index, adjusting the values to be on a scale of 0 – 1, and multiplied by .5I did the same for the SP+ score for each teamI added the normalized SP+ score for each team playing, and multiplied by .25I multiplied the sum of parts 1 and 3 by a Game Adjuster, to account for context: 1.25 for Conference Games, 1.5 for Conference Championships and Bowl Games, 2 for NY6 gamesTwo final notes: the “Excitement Index” only goes back to 2014, so games from the 2013 season won’t be featured here, but feel free to include any of those in the comments (like Fresno’s 52-50 shootout against Rutgers). I also only included games where a Mountain West team won; it didn’t feel right to highlight a loss by one of the teams we cover. I’ll include the original excitement index, as well as my adjusted score. For reference, the highest Excitement Index score given to a game with a Mountain West team was 11, and my adjusted score is on a scale of 0 – 1.5. I’ll also include highlights for each game, though I apologize in advance that some are more extensive than others.As with everything, the data doesn’t tell the full story, so feel free in the comments to mention a game that wasn’t featured here or one that should have been ra