Sept. 17, 2005
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With the 38-21 win over New Mexico State, New Mexico opens the season 3-0 for the first time under head coach Rocky Long…Dennis Franchione’s 1997 UNM team began 6-0…the Lobos have won eight straight regular-season games and five in a row at University Stadium.
Tonight’s attendance was a University Stadium record 44,760 – the biggest crowd ever to watch a football game in the state of New Mexico…the previous best was the 44,075 that watched UNM defeat New Mexico State 24-7 on Sept. 27, 2003.
The Lobos’ 24 first half points were the team’s most in 18 games…UNM held a 24-14 halftime lead over Colorado State and went on to win 37-34 on Nov. 7, 2003.
New Mexico senior DonTrell Moore became the Lobos’ all-time leading rusher five minutes into the second quarter…the 2005 Doak Walker and Walter Camp award candidate tied Mike Williams’ (1975-78) record of 3,862 with a 5-yard run, then went for 8 yards on the next play to take over the career rushing record…Moore finished the night with 120 yards on 24 carries and 1 rushing touchdown in just 3 quarters of play, giving him 3,928 career yards…it was his first 100-yard game of the season in his third game back since suffering a torn ACL in the first quarter of the 2004 Emerald Bowl…Moore now has 20 career 100-yard games and has gone over the century mark in 12 of his last 16 home games…he also pulled in two passes for 23 yards, including a 24-yard TD off a screen pass.
UNM senior CB Gabriel Fulbright recorded two more interceptions, the fourth multiple interception game of his career and second of the season…the 2005 Jim Thorpe and Bronko Nagurski Award candidate tied UNLV’s Kevin Thomas (1999-01) for the Mountain West Conference record with 14 career INTs…he also moved into a tie with Sharay Fields (1978-80) for 3rd on the UNM all-time list…Fulbright’s five picks this year match his single-season high, set in 12 games in 2004.
Lobo junior QB Kole McKamey became the first Lobo to record at least 150 yards and 150 yards passing in a game…he notched the third 100-yard rushing game of his career, finishing with 152 yards on 14 carries…His 152 yards tied a career-high set against Wyoming on Nov. 20, 2004…McKamey gave UNM a 21-0 2nd quarter lead with his 71-yard TD off an option keeper…he also had an 80-yard scoring run against Wyoming in last year’s home finale…McKamey has averaged 104.2 yards on the ground in his last 5 games, including 100-yard efforts vs. Wyoming, Navy and NMSU
McKamey was 12 of 19 passing for 172 yards and 2 TDs…he did throw his 1st interception of the season in the 3rd quarter, which was the Lobos 1st turnover of the season…McKamey had not thrown an interception since the end of the 2nd quarter against Navy in last year’s Emerald Bowl…he attempted 71 passes in between interceptions
New Mexico has won 9 straight games with QB Kole McKamey and TB DonTrell Moore healthy for an entire game.
It is the second time in four games (and second of his career) that McKamey has thrown for 100 yards and run for 100 yards in a game…he ran for 138 yards and threw for 207 yards against Navy in the Emerald Bowl last season.
The Lobos marched on one of the longest scoring drives in school history en route to their second TD of the night…the 19-play, 91-yard drive ran 9:30 off the clock…the plays and time of possession were the longest in head coach Rocky Long’s tenure…the drive was possible after a roughing the punter penalty against the Aggies
The UNM defense collected a season-high six sacks on the night, led by junior Quincy Black’s 1.5 sacks…Black also had six tackles on the night…UNM entered the game with 3 sacks
UNM junior kicker Kenny Byrd stayed perfect with his third field goal of the season, a 36-yarder to end the first half…Byrd also sent a career-high five kickoffs into the end zone for touchbacks and now has 10 on the year…UNM notched 10 touchbacks in all of 2004.
DonTrell Moore (120) and Kole McKamey (152) both rushed for over 100 yards in a game for the first time since Wyoming last season…McKamey and Moore ran for 152 and 150 yards, respectively, in UNM’s 16-9 win over the Cowboys on Nov. 20.
New Mexico now leads the series with New Mexico State 63-28-5, including a 30-6-1 mark since 1969…it’s 38-12-3 all-time in Albuquerque, 16-2-1 in the past 19
The Lobos scored a TD on their opening drive of the game for the 4th straight game…it was a 9-play, 82-yard drive that resulted in a 17-yard TD pass from McKamey to TE John Mulchrone
Since 2002, UNM is 21-2 when scoring first
Senior WR Hank Baskett caught 3 passes for 58 yards tonight…he now ranks 10th all-time at UNM with 92 career receptions.