The School: The New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. In other words, they started as an A&M, they use a dark shade of red, and they go by the Aggies. You’d think the school they would choose to imitate would be Texas A&M, and you’d be wrong.
Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico. I actually don’t have anything bad to say about Las Cruces (Spanish for “The Cruces.”) It’s a decent town for its size (a little over 100,000) with an agreeable climate (basically “Phoenix, but 95 instead of 120 in the summer”) and some nearby mountains, and a pretty good local cuisine that’s basically “what if we just threw green chiles in everything imaginable?