ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In their first bowl game in nine years, the University of New Mexico Lobos will face the University of Minnesota Gophers.
UNM announced the cherry-and-silver Lobo football team will play the Golden Gophers in the Rate Bowl, set for Dec. 26 at 4:30 p.m. ET at Chase Field in Phoenix. The game will be broadcast on ESPN.
The 2025 Rate Bowl appearance marks the first non-New Mexico Bowl game appearance for the Lobos since the 2004 Emerald Bowl in San Francisco…