Lobos dominate in season opener

Lobo players Jacob Perez, left, and Reece White, center, celebrate near the student bench after beating Mississippi Valley State on Saturday evening at University Stadium. The Lobos won, 66-0. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)The New Mexico Lobos made a little history Saturday night.

Afterward, UNM coach Bob Davie said that’s exactly what Saturday’s game is as of this morning – history.

The Lobos, thoroughly dominating a painfully outmanned Mississippi Valley State football team, crushed the Delta Devils 66-0 at University Stadium in both teams’ season opener.

The shutout was UNM’s first since a 24-0 whitewash of Wyoming in 2008. The margin of victory was the Lobos’ largest since a 77-6…