LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The New Mexico State football team has accepted an invitation to the NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl to take on a familiar bowl opponent in Utah State on Dec. 29 at 3:30 p.m. MT in Tucson, Ariz. at Arizona Stadium on the CBS Sports Network. The rematch is almost 57 years to the date of when NM State took on Utah State in the Sun Bowl on Dec. 31, 1960.
Following the bowl invitation head football coach Doug Martin said, "Getting to a bowl game is the way our senior class should go out.