That\u2019s a delicious projection for two reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The first is that San Diego State and Texas State will become conference rivals next fall when they both move into the new-look Pac-12. A preview showdown would make it more than a run-of-the-mill bowl game.<\/p>\n
The second is that the New Mexico Bowl is played at University Stadium, home of the New Mexico Lobos. The Aztecs will be making their final regular-season trip to Albuquerque on Nov. 28.<\/p>\n
The Lobos will be remaining in the MW as SDSU, Boise State<\/a>, Colorado State, Fresno State and Utah State leave for the Pac-12, where they\u2019ll merge with Texas State and holdovers Washington State and Oregon State. Gonzaga<\/a> will join in basketball only.<\/p>\n San Diego State is showing a strong turnaround in Sean Lewis\u2019 second season as coach. At 4-1, they\u2019ve eclipsed the win total from last year, when they lost their final six games and finished 3-9 overall and 2-5 in the Mountain West.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Aztecs have won three in a row heading into Saturday night\u2019s game at Nevada (1-4), which is also staying behind in the MW.\u00a0<\/p>\n They\u2019re just two wins away from becoming bowl-eligible for the first time since 2022.<\/p>\n Oct 3, 2025; San Diego, California, USA; San Diego State Aztecs linebacker Tano Letuli (21) celebrates after a tackle during the first half against the Colorado State Rams at Snapdragon Stadium. \/ David Frerker-Imagn Images<\/p>\n Texas State is 3-2 overall and 0-1 in the Sun Belt Conference after a 31-30 to Arkansas State.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Bobcats were courted for months by the Pac-12 before the conference announced on July 1 that it would be an expansion member. The Bobcats were seen as a viable member in all sports, as well as opening up Texas to the rest of the members of the rejuvenated conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n The New Mexico Bowl lines up perfectly for these two teams, as its conference tie-ins are with the MW, Sun Belt, AAC, CUSA and MAC.<\/p>\n College Football News<\/p>\n New Mexico Bowl: New Mexico State vs. San Diego State.\u00a0<\/p>\n College Football News also projects the Aztecs to head to Albuquerque, but with a different opponent, the\u00a0New Mexico State Aggies.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kyle Bonagura, ESPN<\/p>\n Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl: Buffalo vs. San Diego State<\/p>\n Bonagura has these one-time bowl opponents in a rematch on Saturday, Dec. 27. San Diego State beat Buffalo 49-24 in the 2013 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Aztecs played in the New Mexico Bowl in 2019, beating Central Michigan 48-11.<\/p>\n Dec 21, 2019; Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; San Diego State Aztecs quarterback Ryan Agnew (9) and linebacker Kyahva Tezino (44) hoist the winner’s trophy after the New Mexico Bowl against the Central Michigan Chippewas. \/ Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n SDSU played in 10 straight bowl games from 2010-2019. It made consecutive appearances in 2021-2022 before missing the postseason in Brady Hoke\u2019s final season as head coach in 2023 and Lewis\u2019 first season last fall.<\/p>\n MORE SAN DIEGO STATE NEWS & ANALYSIS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bowl projection season is heating up, and there\u2019s a doozy of a matchup that should\u00a0wet the postseason appetites…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":283068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-283067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115330673778023462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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