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The New Mexico Lobos football team is the interscholastic football team at theUniversity of New Mexico. The Lobos compete as a member of the Mountain West Conference. They have a cumulative record of 430-492-31, a winning percentage of 45.1%. It is represented by the colors cherry and silver. The Lobos current head coach is Rocky Long, who has guided the Lobos to four bowl games in the last five seasons. The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ...
The Mountain West Conference (or MWC), the youngest of the college athletic conferences affiliated with the NCAA’s Division I-A, officially began operations in July 1999. ...
The head coach in sports coaching is the coach who is in charge of the other coaches. ...
Rocky Long was the starting quarterback for the University of New Mexico Lobo football team from 1969 to 1971, recording consecutive winning seasons and earning player-of-the-year honors in the Western Athletic Conference in 1971. ...
Conference Affiliations
The Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association (sometimes referred to as the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Conference), an NCAA-affiliated college athletic conference founded in 1931, was disbanded following the 1961-1962 season. ...
The Skyline Conference, also known as the Mountain States Conference, was a college athletic conference based in the western United States. ...
The Western Athletic Conference (commonly referred to as the WAC, pronounced whack) was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the NCAA’s Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A). ...
The Mountain West Conference (or MWC), the youngest of the college athletic conferences affiliated with the NCAA’s Division I-A, officially began operations in July 1999. ...
Championships Conference Championships
New Mexico has won four conference championships in two different conferences, yet has not won a conference title in over 40 years. | Year | Conference | Coach | Record | | 1938 | BIAA | Ted Shipkey | 8-3 | | 1962 | WAC | Bill Weeks | 7-2-1 | | 1963 | WAC | Bill Weeks | 6-4 | | 1963 | WAC | Bill Weeks | 9-2 | | Total conference championships | 3 | Division Championships
New Mexico made one appearance in the Western Athletic Conference Championship Game as the winner of the WAC Mountain Division. The Western Athletic Conference staged a conference title football game during the three years (1996-98) the league consisted of sixteen members. ...
Bowl Games | Date | Bowl | W/L | Opponent | PF | PA | | January 2, 1939 | Sun Bowl | L | Utah | 0 | 26 | | January 1, 1944 | Sun Bowl | L | Southwestern University | 0 | 7 | | January 1, 1946 | Sun Bowl | W | University of Denver | 34 | 24 | | January 1, 1947 | Harbor Bowl | T | Montana State | 13 | 13 | | December 9, 1961 | Aviation Bowl | W | Western Michigan | 28 | 12 | | December 27, 1997 | Insight.com Bowl | L | Arizona | 14 | 20 | | December 25, 2002 | Las Vegas Bowl | L | UCLA | 13 | 27 | | December 24, 2003 | Las Vegas Bowl | L | Oregon State | 14 | 55 | | December 30, 2004 | Emerald Bowl | L | Navy | 19 | 34 | | December 23, 2006 | New Mexico Bowl | L | San José State | 12 | 20 | | Total | 10 bowl games | 2-7-1 | | | | | | |
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