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BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas 鈥� The streak lives on.

Texas A&M scored five straight touchdowns en route to rolling New Mexico, 52-10 for the Lobos鈥� 10th straight loss dating back to last season 鈥� the longest losing streak under fourth-year head coach Danny Gonzales.

Only Northwestern (11), South Florida (11) and Nevada (11) have dropped more consecutive games.

鈥淲e got our tails whooped tonight,鈥� Gonzales said in a postgame press conference. 鈥淥ur kids fought their tails off. We got a tough football team, we鈥檝e got enough talent to compete. We鈥檝e gotta fix some things, obviously, in the secondary.鈥�

While New Mexico stood up well to Texas A&M鈥檚 ground game (134 yards on 29 carries), the Aggies feasted on New Mexico鈥檚 secondary with six total receiving touchdowns. Texas A&M鈥檚 Conner Weigman threw for 236 yards and five touchdowns, three to wide receiver Noah Thomas and two to Evan Stewart, as A&M racked up 277 passing yards and 411 yards of total offense.

New Mexico鈥檚 Dylan Hopkins finished 16-for-25 passing with 117 yards and one interception in his Lobo debut.

鈥淚 thought he did a good job of what we asked him to do,鈥� Gonzales said of Hopkins. 鈥淲e weren鈥檛 gonna sit back there and throw it all day long, because we knew they were good up front.鈥�

After New Mexico punted on their opening drive (10 plays, 42 yards), Weigman opened up the scoring with a 15-yard touchdown pass to Thomas. Then, on the first play of the second, Stewart blew past safety Noa Pola-Gates for a 35-yard receiving touchdown to put the Aggies ahead 14-0.

New Mexico cut into the Aggies鈥� lead in the second quarter with a six-play, 88-yard scoring drive capped off by a 27-yard touchdown scamper from running back Jacory Croskey-Merritt 鈥� the team's first score against a power opponent since a 66-14 loss to Notre Dame in 2019.

鈥淭hat was a great moment,鈥� said Croskey-Merritt of his first touchdown with New Mexico. 鈥淚t gave us a little momentum to keep fighting. We knew we could move the ball 鈥� we came out and moved the ball pretty well 鈥� but it wasn鈥檛 enough.鈥�

A&M鈥檚 response? Weigman finding Thomas for a 34-yard touchdown, Le鈥橵eon Moss rushing for a 2-yard score and Weigman hitting Thomas one more time for a 9-yard touchdown 鈥� three touchdowns in the span of seven minutes. When it was all said and done, the Aggies were up 35-7 and ready to extend their lead with a 47-yard field goal with six seconds left in the first half.

Tavian Combs said otherwise. New Mexico鈥檚 redshirt senior safety got in front of Randy Bond鈥檚 47-yard attempt for the Lobos first blocked field goal since Nahje Flowers blocked Matthew Mercurio鈥檚 41-yard attempt during a 32-21 loss to San Jose State on Oct. 4, 2019.

Luke Drzewicki鈥檚 27-yard field goal in the third quarter represented the first score of the second half. Then, Stewart鈥檚 8-yard touchdown reception pushed A&M ahead 42-10.

A&M backup quarterback Max Johnson cleaned up in the fourth with a 3-yard touchdown pass to Moose Muhammad III and Randy Bond hit a 39-yard field goal with 1:10 left for the final score. With the loss, the Lobos dropped to 0-6 all-time against the Aggies.

鈥淲e put a lot of work into this team, both on offense and defense,鈥� Combs said, 鈥渁nd it didn鈥檛 come out how we wanted. We gotta come out Monday and Tuesday, ready to get prepared for next week and come out better.鈥�

New Mexico returns to sa国际传媒官网网页入口 for its home opener against Tennessee Tech next Saturday, Sept. 9.