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08/25/2026

🏈5A Prep Football Power Rankings🏈
A 124-point shootout, stealing the show in the Bulldog Bowl, and dynamic individual performances. It’s all here in Class 5A. Follow and tag us to be featured 📈📈…
5A Player of the Week: Andruw Fuentez of Roswell High Athletics

If Week 1 is any indication, Class 5A is set to deliver pure, unadulterated high school football theater all autumn long. From Roswell and Hobbs setting the scoreboard ablaze in a 124-point track meet to Carlsbad marching into the legendary Bulldog Bowl and holding off a desperate second-half surge,

08/24/2026

Are you ready Lobo Nation? T-minus 13 days until the season opener at University Stadium…

08/24/2026

🏈6A NM Power Rankings Index🏈 A weekly release of NM prep football recaps, rankings, and top performances.
• Games that mattered most
• Adjusted Power Rankings
• Player of the Week: QB Michael Denison - Cleveland Storm Football Boosters
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Friday night under the lights provided all the drama, but the real picture emerges when the dust settles. Week 1 of New Mexico 6A football saw statement performances, dominant debuts, and defensive masterclasses across the state. Junior quarterback Michael Denison made a splash in his varsity debut

08/24/2026

New Mexico Lobo WBB Legends w/ Yvonne Sanchez

08/21/2026

08/20/2026

After offseason district realignment and a transfer ruling frenzy, 6A football should be as exciting as ever in the state of New Mexico.
Here is every favorite, dark horse and sleeper in 6A before the season kicks off. Dan Allison - dallisonwrites

From Centennial's explosive Ruiz Laborin–Dailen Ramirez tandem looking to run through the district, to a reloaded Sandia offense featuring a star-studded receiving corps under Tylon Wilder, the dark horses are loaded. Meanwhile, Eldorado lurks quietly on the horizon, anchored by junior bellcow

08/19/2026

🏈NM Prep Football Preview🏈 NM 5A High School Football Preview. It’s the annual question: Coyotes or Bulldogs? The top two team of class are coming off a clash in the title game in 2025 - will they meet again? The favorites, dark horses, and sleepers of class 5A with Dan Allison - dallisonwrites.

Can Artesia reload after a heavy senior exodus, or is this Roswell’s year to take the crown? With powerhouse programs shifting down from 6A to crash the party, the race for November glory in 5A is more wide open than you think.

08/18/2026

New Mexico High School football kicks off this week. Here is a look at Class 4A: Favorites, dark horses and one sleeper. Dan Allison - dallisonwrites provides his preview.

From the powerhouse in Bloomfield to hungry title contenders down south, 4A New Mexico high school football is packed with elite talent, returning playmakers, and massive class realignments. Here is the complete preview of every favorite, dark horse, and sleeper ready to make noise on the gridiron t

08/17/2026

What will ’s defensive look like in 2026? We asked Coach Spence Nowinsky on the latest podcast. “We’re all ‘mutts’ on the defense… with a chip on our shoulder,” Nowinsky said. But they’re more experienced and smarter players this time around.

In Spence Nowinsky's first season in Albuquerque in 2025, he comple...

08/17/2026

New Mexico’s defense has a different kind of confidence heading into the new season. It’s a “Mutts” mentality, a relentless attack for turnovers, and a brotherhood that holds it all together. UNM Lobo Football defensive breakdown by Edgerrin Garcia.

Defensive tackle Brian Booker said it with authority. “We’re beating the UNM sack record… we’re going for it.”  The Lobos may have lost last season’s sack leader, Keyshawn James-Newby, to the Philadelphia Eagles, but they haven’t lost an ounce of confidence. If anything, they’ve...