From the Blogs: Graunke, Practices Closed, WAC vs MWC?

ST has an update on Tyler Graunke.

Tyler Graunke threw during 7-on-7 drills today, but was held out of team drills to rest his sore right hand.
Head coach Greg McMackin said he does not want to rush back Graunke, but that he is on a suitable timetable in preparation for Saturday’s game against San Jose State.
Graunke said his wrist still is tender when he throws. But he said he expects to play “all four quarters” against the Spartans.

Tsai also writes that Keoni Steinhoff and David Farmer practiced today.

Dave Reardon reports that practices will be closed the rest of the week. Also, Solomon Elimimian was out with a "sore quad" but should be able to play.

And over on the Bleacher Report, Ken Braun has an interesting idea, proposing a game between WAC and Mountain West champs, with the winner getting a BCS bid.

I don't propose a merger, as each conference would retain their full independence from one another. But for BCS purposes, these two conferences would be considered one BCS conference, with all the rules of membership, most particularly the money and the automatic BCS bowl game for the joint conference championship game winner.