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- Texas A&M spoils New Mexico head coach Mike Locksley’s debut
- UNM has lost 5 straight games, the longest since a 6-game slide in 1998-99…the Lobos have also dropped 5 in a row on the road
- New Mexico’s last TD in a season opener was in 2005 against UNLV…it was a 1-yard run by DonTrell Moore with13:24 left in the 4th quarter…the Lobos won 24-22 in Albuquerque
- UNM has a 10-game losing streak playing in the State of Texas: 0-3 at UTEP and Texas Tech, 0-2 at TCU and 0-1 at Baylor and Texas A&M…the last win was 40-10 at TCU in 1997
- The crowd of 73,887 is the 4th-largest to watch the Lobos play
- New Mexico has lost 4 straight season openers for the first time dropping 5 in a row from 1985-89…the Lobos are3-8 in their last 11 season openers
- 18 players made their Lobo debut tonight: FB Chris Biren, TB A.J. Butler, DE Ahraya Crespin, TB Demond Dennis, CB Nathan Enriquez, DT Peter Gardner, OG Karlin Givens, K Garrett Hentrup, deep snapper Evan Jacobsen, WR Ty Kirk, CB Emmanuel McPhearson, LB Spencer Merritt, CB DeShawn Mills, S Jesse Paulsen, TE Lucas Reed, WR Quintell Solomon, LB Joe Stoner and DB Freddy Young…the breakdown of the 18 is 3 true freshman, 13 redshirt freshmen and 2 juniors
Individual
Senior QB Donovan Porterie
set a career high with 29 pass completions…40 attempts were the second-most of his career o passed Graham Leigh (1996-98) for 4th place all-time at UNM with 394 career pass completions
Sophomore K James Aho
2-2 on FGs, connecting from 19 and 48 yards…the 48-yarder ties a career long set last year against Arizona o 20-26 FGs in 13 career games at New Mexico…5 multiple field goal games
Sophomore DE Johnathan Rainey
did not start, but had career-highs of 7 tackles, 2.0 sacks (-20 yards)…also unofficially credited with 6 QB hurries/hits
Senior LB Clint McPeek
10 tackles in his first game at LB (former safety)…6th career game with double-digit stops – all since 2008
Senior LB Tray Hardaway
Game-high 12 tackles, including 1.5 for loss, in his first career start…13 stops in 11 games (mostly special teams) last year
Senior WR Daryl Jones
led the team with career-highs with 5 receptions for 53 yards…entered the night with 6 grabs for 72 yards in 34 career games
Redshirt freshman RB A.J. Butler
53 yards from scrimmage on just 7 touches (7.6 avg.) – all in the second half…3 carries for 22 yards and 4 catches for 31 yards
True freshman RB Demond Dennis
first true freshman RB to start a season opener since Art Celestine at UTEP in 1991 o had 98 all-purpose yards: 10-23 rushing, 5-29 receiving and 46 on 2 KO returns