Three final takeaways from New Mexico’s 21-16 win over San Jose State: 1. Whatever it is, change is needed to get this passing game in order “Insanity is doing the same thing, expecting different results.” Jason Eck said that on Sept. 26 after Toa Fa’avae’s first game as the Lobos’ full-time starting quarterback, a 42-17 win over New Mexico State. The move was made because UNM’s second-year ...

The trick for the University of New Mexico football team’s Houdini act in Saturday’s 21-16 win on the road against San Jose State was continuing to find ways to win despite an offense stuck in low gear. The growing concern over the floundering offense has been continuously wiped away by a defense that’s among the country’s best — and, arguably, the best in school history. The Lobos lead the ...

Austin Brawley’s fourth quarter pick six against North Dakota State sent the Lobos to their biggest win of the year. It also netted him a pair of rare national accolades. After returning an interception 56 yards for a touchdown Saturday, New Mexico’s fifth-year safety was named the Bronko Nagurski Award National Player of the Week and a semifinalist for the Paycom Jim Thorpe Award. The ...

New Mexico football coach Jason Eck lit into defensive end Brett Karhu for getting in the face of the NDSU quarterback after a game-sealing pick-6

(AP) — Austin Brawley returned an interception 56 yards for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter and New Mexico held on to beat North Dakota State 21-16 on Saturday night.Brawley's pick-6 gave the first-place Lobos (6-1, 3-0 Mountain West Conference) a 21-9 lead early in the fouth quarter.

In four seasons of college football, Austin Brawley had never returned an interception for a touchdown. Over a three-game stretch in his fifth season, he returned two for scores. The second might have been the biggest play of his life. In a matchup of Mountain West heavyweights, Brawley’s 56-yard pick-six helped lift New Mexico to a 21-16 win over North Dakota State on Saturday in University ...

The night before New Mexico played New Mexico State, Jason Eck dreamt that safety Austin Brawley would return an interception for a touchdown. Right idea, wrong game. “My dream,” Eck said Saturday, “was a week early.” With Brawley’s 65-yard pick six leading the way, UNM scored 31 points off five turnovers en route to a dominant 61-7 shellacking of UTEP on Saturday at University Stadium. For ...