Game Day! Let's look at our opponent....

 

So a quick look at the traditions at New Mexico State and prominent alumni

You can start with the best one...the WONDER DOG!  The current wonder is named Wave, and here you can see him doing his job (he's a good boy, he has a job!  YES HE DOES!) which is retrieving the tee after a kickoff.

Here is the mascot, the vaguely disturbing Pistol Pete. Very skeevy. 

  

This one is cool.  It is the Noche de Luminarias. I used to live in a town where there was a neighborhood that did these...on a dark winter night, they are just beautiful.  This is the 37th year and there are over 9,000 of the luminaries shining across the campus.

Painting the A is an important tradition.  They have the A on the mountain (stands for Aggies) and its highly visible across the campus and the town.  Students carry the material up the Tortuga mountain to "paint the A."

Two alumni notes.  Clyde Tombaugh, seen here with his homemade telescope. Here discovered Pluto.   Legend has it that ever since Pluto was downgraded to dwarf planet status, he has haunted the halls of the astronomy building at NM State.  Please note that everything after the word "Legend has it" was made up.

I also saw that Christine Aguilera was a graduate of NM State.  That got my attention, because I was thinking this....

Alas, the correct thing to think was this....

As in Christine Aguilera, the CEO of the former SkyMall--pushing insane products on bored people before they had televisions on airplanes.

Go Falcons....