According to a 1927 list, the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) assigned the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts a hood lined crimson with a white chevron. This arrangement of the college’s hood lining colors did not change in later IBAC lists.

This may have been a “generic” hood lining pattern the Intercollegiate Bureau had used merely as a record of the college’s school colors, as this was a duplication of the hoods the IBAC had already assigned to Radcliffe College and the University of Alabama (both crimson with a white chevron). It was also a pattern that was very similar to the hood lining the Bureau had assigned Dickinson College (cardinal with a white chevron).

To resolve these problems, here New Mexico State University has been reassigned a hood with the colors arranged crimson above white, divided per bar, to resemble the heraldic division in the seal of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The IBAC may have earlier assigned this hood lining pattern to Emporia College in Kansas, but the college went defunct in 1974.