NMSU's one last gasp at FBS relevancy may have been squelched before it really began.
For the longest time, New Mexico State Aggies football was a sad sack laughing stock of the Sun Belt, WAC, and Sun Belt again. Somewhere around 8000 fans (or less) were gracing a comparably cavernous 30,000 seat stadium, the football program was being described by Bill Connelly as something befitting a Franciscan monk being sent into the wilderness, and we were making up drinking games to mock their in-house television channel that was somehow even cornier than a "Better Call Saul" ad.