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Aggressive COVID-19 testing and safe practices are the keys that provide the Mountain West Conference with the confidence it can have a 2020 football season — and the announcement Friday by the governor’s office of what is required gives the University of New Mexico a chance to play, too. The league’s presidents voted Thursday and announced later that night that the Mountain West plans an eight-game league schedule for its 12 football-playing schools with a championship game scheduled for Dec. 19. On Friday, MWC Commi...
The Mountain West Conference, which includes the University of New Mexico Lobos, has canceled fall sports, including football, because of COVID-19 concerns. It will consider playing them in the spring, the league announced Monday. At New Mexico State University, the Aggies’ football team paused its preseason camp, after a positive COVID-19 test by an asymptomatic individual, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported Monday. The rest of the position group and coaches all tested negative, according to NMSU. And the rest of the f...