Key Highlights
- College football fans demand a lot out of a bowl game that doesn’t include high stakes, like vying for the national championship.
- But the New Mexico Lobos were thrust into the spotlight on Friday night as they took on the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the Rate Bowl.
- Fans went wild as the team donned their turquoise jerseys for the game. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS. COM New Mexico quarterback Jack Layne (2) throws the ball around Minnesota linebacker Maverick Baranowski in the first half of a Rate Bowl NCAA college football game, Friday, Dec.
- 26, 2025, in Phoenix.
- (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) They made it known before and during the game.