Two southwest teams sharing a state border could not be in more different places in their respected programs.
As the Arizona Wildcats and New Mexico Lobos gear up to play one another on Saturday, Dec. 19, the postseason experience in the two programs is hard to overlook.
For Arizona, it is just another bowl game, particularly a game head coach Rich Rodriguez is quite familiar with.
In 2012, his first season as head coach for the Wildcats, Rodriguez led his squad to a thrilling 49-48 victory over Nevada, scoring two touchdowns in the final two minutes of the game, to sneak the Gildan New Mexico Bowl trophy back to Tucson.