NEVADA AND NEW MEXICO TO MEET IN BATTLE OF THE WOLVES’ SERIESAlbuquerque, N.M. -- The University of Nevada and the University of New Mexico will meet Saturday in the New Mexico Bowl, but it won’t be the last time the schools face each other on the football field. And matchups between the schools will likely come in other sports as well under a comprehensive competitive agreement reached this week.
The Wolf Pack and the Lobos have a verbal agreement to begin a “Battle of the Wolves” series that will begin on the gridiron in 2011 when the New Mexico football team travels to Mackay Stadium to face Nevada. The Wolf Pack will travel to Albuquerque for a 2015 meeting.
“I am looking forward to the bowl game and am looking forward to these future games,” Nevada football coach Chris Ault said. “New Mexico has a fine program and I believe we will have some exciting games.”
The agreement is a multi-sport deal and the schools are working together to schedule future games in men’s and women’s basketball and baseball.
“This series makes sense on different levels,” said Cary Groth, Nevada’s director of athletics. “It is a natural fit because of the geographic proximity and the series meets our scheduling philosophy.”
Saturday’s New Mexico Bowl is the third meeting between Nevada and New Mexico in football and the first since the 1940s.
The two schools have never met in men’s basketball. Nevada holds a 1-0 series lead in women’s basketball, having beaten the Lobos during the 1986-87 season in Reno. Nevada leads the all-time series in baseball 2-0. Both of those games were played at a neutral site.
The agreement will be officially announced at the New Mexico Bowl Kickoff Luncheon today at the Sandia Resort. Groth and New Mexico athletics director Paul Krebs made the official announcement.
