Bowl Preview: ABC Prime Time as SMU Battles BYU in New Mexico Bowl Saturday

NEW MEXICO BOWL
SMU MUSTANGS vs. BYU COUGARS
7:30 p.m. ET
University Stadium
(39,224/FieldTurf)
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Television

ABC
Tom Hart, Brock Osweiler and Taylor McGregor

National Radio
ESPN Radio
Jay Alter and Dave Steckel

SMU Radio
KTCK-FM 96.7 (flagship)
SiriusXM 84
THE GAME
The New Mexico Bowl has been played annually since the 2006 season on the campus of the University of New Mexico, save for the 2020 edition of the game, which was relocated to Frisco, Texas … The game has been played on the opening Saturday of Bowl Season since 2008 … SMU will be the second team from the American Athletic Conference to play in the New Mexico Bowl after Houston played in the 2020 matchup (Temple played in the 2011 game before the formation of The American) … This year’s game will be the first to be televised on ABC … Television coverage was on ESPN from 2007 to 2021 after the inaugural game was on ESPN2 … The New Mexico Bowl trophy is a Native American clay pot hand-crafted by artists Marcellus and Elizabeth Media from the Zia Pueblo and featuring the iconic Zia sun symbol and images of football players, a deer, a mountain lion and an eagle … SMU and BYU have met three times previously …The Cougars have won all three matchups, including in the 1980 Holiday Bowl, when the Cougars took a 46-45 win on a 41-yard touchdown pass by Jim McMahon as time expired to cap a comeback from a 20-point fourth-quarter deficit.