New Mexico State Aggies NCAA Football News

The New Mexico State Aggie football team lost its sixth-straight game on Saturday night.

It sounds funny, but it's true. The New Mexico State vs. San Jose State football game Saturday should be a battle.

DeWayne Walker didn't hesitate to move Donyae Coleman from wide receiver to defensive back.

The numbers haven't been pretty. The recent five game losing streak? Ugly. But one couldn't tell when attending New Mexico State Aggie football practice on Tuesday morning.

That the Pack can maintain its focus. Looming on the horizon was the most important game since Chris Ault returned to the sidelines in 2004 - at Boise State on Friday - but Nevada made sure to not look past lowly New Mexico State.

The Nevada football team entered Saturday night's game against New Mexico State with a record of 7-3, 6-0 in the Western Athletic Conference and was tied with Boise State atop the conference standings.

Ross Conner remembered his welcome-to-college moment. His first year at New Mexico State University, Conner, a redshirt linebacker, was participating at football practice.

Senior running back Leon Wright-Jackson couldn't match his career day of 167 yards and three scores against Utah State last week, but still managed to be effective vs.

The Nevada Wolf Pack can attack an opposing defense with a number of weapons. Three players, in particular, can keep a coach up at night: quarterback Colin Kaepernick and running backs Vai Taua and Luke Lippincott.

New Mexico State head coach DeWayne Walker expects running back Seth Smith to play this weekend against the University of Nevada.

No paradise: Aggie football team travels to Hawaii in search of win by By Teddy Feinberg/Sun-News Sports Editor , Las Cruces Sun-News LAS CRUCES The New Mexico State University football team left Las Cruces on Friday afternoon, going on a road trip to the University of Hawaii for a Saturday evening affair.

It's been the same old song for DeWayne Walker and the New Mexico State Aggies. Play scrappy, yet effective defense in spurts, get next to nothing on offense and walk away with a loss.

Bryant Moniz threw for 294 yards before leaving the game injured at the beginning of the fourth quarter as Hawaii defeated New Mexico State 24-6. Greg Salas had a school record 16 catches for 196 yards and a touchdown.

Blaze Soares had a senior moment he won't soon forget. Soares, a senior outside linebacker from Castle High, got his first career interception and junior safety Mana Silva picked off his team-leading fifth pass of the season to lead the Warriors' defense to what head coach Greg McMackin called 'the best game they've played' in last night's 24-6 win ...

When Ron Lee pops in video of New Mexico State's defense, the Aggies' new helmet logos aren't the only changes that catch the eye of the Hawaii offensive coordinator.

Sack masters: Fils, Savage seek the quarterback as Aggie pass rushers by By Teddy Feinberg/Sun-News Sports Editor , Las Cruces Sun-News LAS CRUCES When Pierre Fils got his first sack of the season Week 1 against the University of Idaho, the New Mexico State defensive end didn't breath a sigh of relief.

Clean-cut and well-organized, New Mexico State assistant football coach Mike Rutenberg has earned the nickname "Stockbroker." In many ways, it fits.

New Mexico State University Athletics Director McKinley Boston announced Tuesday that running back Marquell Colston will be permanently dismissed from the Aggie football team.

Ohio State kicker Aaron Pettrey will have surgery Tuesday to repair a torn medial collateral ligament, or MCL, in his right knee and could miss the remainder of the regular season.

The Whitworth women earned their first Northwest Conference title, scoring 37 points at the 6,000-meter course at McIver State Park in Estacada, Ore.