After Saturday’s 35-3 drubbing at the hands of Air Force at Falcons Stadium, the New Mexico Lobos can take comfort – cold comfort though it may be – in this: This wasn’t one that got away.
It was never there to be taken.
In this one, there were no “if not for this,” or “if not for that,” no “what could have been.” There was no turning point, no crucial play. Air Force simply dominated.
“They out-physicaled us,” Lobos coach Danny Gonzales said. “… They out-physicaled us and outplayed us.”
Yes, they did.
On one side of the ball, with the 131st-and-last nationally ranked UNM offense matched against the ninth-ranked Air Force defense, the outcome couldn’t have been more predictable.