Wk 2 · 2026
Mercyhurst Lakers at New Mexico Lobos — Sat, Sep 12
Sat, Sep 12 ·
University Stadium (NM), Albuquerque, NM
· MW+
Weather
95° / 77° light drizzle
19% chance of precipitation
Kickoff time is not set yet, so this is the forecast for the day rather than for the hour.
Forecast from Open-Meteo
Mercyhurst Lakers
FCS / Other · no games yet
at
TBDET
no line posted yet
No ratings differential: Mercyhurst is not in the ratings file.
Mountain West · no games yet
What is at stake
A non-conference game. It moves both overall records but neither conference race.
What the ratings imply
The differential above is arithmetic on two published numbers:
The CFB King’s 2026 final efficiency ratings, plus
2.4 points of home field.
It is not a projection, a value, an edge or a lean, and nothing on this site
compares it with the betting line to tell you one is better. Until 2026
games are played it is last season’s measurement of two teams that have
changed.
Efficiency · 2026 ratings
Efficiency margin
Offense (pts/100)
Defense (pts/100)
Pace (plays/g)
Yards / play
Yards / play allowed
Opponent-adjusted ratings from The College
King's 2026 final numbers. Bars share a scale within each row, so
the two lengths are comparable; the brighter side is the better of the two, and a
longer bar is the better number — including the rows where a lower figure is the
good one. Pace is the exception: it is how fast a team plays, not how well, so
neither side is lit and a longer bar there means only more plays.
Team stats · 2026 per game
Points / game
Points allowed
Yards / game
Yards allowed
Pass yds allowed
Rush yds allowed
Turnovers / game
From completed 2026 box scores;
defensive yardage covers the regular season and conference championships.
Mercyhurst form
No completed games on record.
New Mexico form
No completed games on record.
Mercyhurst this season
No graded games yet this season. Lines are captured before kickoff and graded when a game goes final, so these records start at Week 1.
New Mexico this season
No graded games yet this season. Lines are captured before kickoff and graded when a game goes final, so these records start at Week 1.
Lines are captured from ESPN's board before kickoff and locked at kickoff, so an in-play price cannot overwrite the number a game is graded against.
Common opponents · 1
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Series history · 2006–2026
These teams have not met in the 2006–2026 window.
Mercyhurst leaders
No tracked players for this team.
From this site’s tracked-player feed; ESPN published no season leaders for this team.
No roster page: this site tracks the 138 FBS teams.
New Mexico leaders 2025 regular season
| Passing | Jack Layne QB #2 | 199/302, 2398 YDS, 13 TD, 9 INT |
| James Laubstein QB #12 | 10/14, 96 YDS, 2 TD | |
| Rushing | Damon Bankston RB #1 | 104 CAR, 578 YDS, 5 TD |
| DJ McKinney RB #4 | 109 CAR, 454 YDS, 7 TD | |
| Scottre Humphrey RB #22 | 77 CAR, 349 YDS, 5 TD | |
| Receiving | Keagan Johnson WR #6 | 57 REC, 730 YDS, 3 TD |
| Dorian Thomas TE #0 | 53 REC, 545 YDS, 4 TD | |
| Damon Bankston RB #1 | 26 REC, 374 YDS, 3 TD | |
| Cade Keith TE #88 | 20 REC, 253 YDS, 3 TD |
Defense
| Tackles | Jaxton Eck LB #6 | 126 |
| Tavian Combs S #7 | 67 | |
| Jon Johnson CB #12 | 50 | |
| Sacks | Keyshawn James-Newby EDGE #1 | 8 |
| Brett Karhu DE #45 | 7 | |
| Gabriel Lopez DT #9 | 2 | |
| Interceptions | Austin Brawley S #0 | 3 |
| Tavian Combs S #7 | 1 | |
| Caleb Coleman S #18 | 1 |
These are regular-season totals for
the season named on each card — the players who led that team that year,
taken from ESPN's team leaders. That list is keyed to the season, not to today's
roster, so a leader who has since transferred or run out of eligibility still
appears against the year he earned it; the
roster
pages and the depth chart on each team page are where the current squad is.
A team switches to this season's numbers once it has played a game. The roster
pages count bowl games too, so a player's two lines can differ by a game.