Does the mountain west conference deserve more recognition as a legitimate conference?

right now the mountain west has 3 teams in the top 25 and a 4th on the brink of the top 25. I know the BCS is a horrible way of deciding the champion but if the BCS is not removed or revised should the Mountain West be able to have an automatic BCS spot like other BCS conferences do. Utah, BYU, and TCU all have big wins over big BCS schools and i think they deserve more credit. what do u think?