New Mexico to present challenge for Southern

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  - When Southern travels to New Mexico for its first game of the season on Sept.1, the Lobos will be an unfamiliar sight for more reasons than geography and culture.

With a new staff led by former Notre Dame coach Bob Davie, UNM is experiencing a bit of a rebirth. That’s difficult to study, since any game film of the Lobos from 2011 is essentially useless.

That hasn’t had a major effect on the Jaguars offense, which will look to force its hand, but the defense has had to study film of Sam Houston State instead, where Lobos offensive coordinator Bob DeBesse spent the past two seasons.

“We’ve been preparing from Day 1,” coach Stump Mitchell said. “Defensively, obviously that revolves around what (the Lobos) do, and hopefully we’ve practiced the majority of what they will do, but the defense just has to be able to fly around and make some plays.”

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