ALBUQUERQUE — Carlos Tenorio remembers sitting in his seat for the final game of his first season as a member of the Howl Raisers, the official student cheering section of the University of New Mexico football team.

Then just a freshman getting his feet wet as a Lobo fan, he walked down the steps of University Stadium, took one look around and had a hard time believing what he was seeing.

“We had two other people in the entire student section with me for that Utah State game,” he says. “This big stadium and we only had two people here.”

My, how things have changed.

The Lobos hosted in-state rival New Mexico State on Saturday before a capacity crowd of 37,440 that made it the most-attended sporting event in the state since 2009 and the ninth-largest crowd in school history. Tenorio and

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