The 2008 Mountain West Conference football season was the 10th since eight former members of the Western Athletic Conference banded together to form the Mountain West Conference. The University of Utah won their fourth conference championship, ending the year 13-0 with a victory over Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl.
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The sleepless soul that perished in his pride;
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Following his plough, along the mountain side:
By our own spirits are we deified:
We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.”
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—Arthur Chapman (1873–1935)
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—Walter Wellesley (Red)
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—David Storey (b. 1933)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)