I’m sure y’all remember this from the telecast when Texas came here. Anyone have any backstory or know who these people were?

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Watch this on Netflix, and keep an eye out at the 21 minute and 50 second mark of the first episode when they show Florida drop to 20th in the rankings. You will see a team of yesteryear in there.

Don't want to ruin it for anyone, so you can comment after you have watched it. It is quite entertaining besides.

UTEPs only home non-conference game in 2024 is Southern Utah. UTEP will host UTMartin in 2025 and they have 1 more game to fill now.

I don't know exactly what Denver team.

Can we access without a subscription to watch the Jacksonville State game?

It definitely makes a difference to an athletic program when the President understands sports and knows when the AD is succeeding.

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Senter hired and fired her.

First hint of football weather. My favorite time of year. Cheers!

Looks like Fresno will be a part of the 1st ever FBS game to be televised in Spanish on a Spanish language tv network.

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Anyone making it to the games at Northwestern, Arizona or Sam Houston St?

I know some fans here have said they're from those areas.

Obviously this off season Conference Realignment has been a topic on this board and how and if it'll affect our Miners. We already know UTEP has been left behind by former conference mates who've went on to greener pastures, some even P5 Conferences.
Utep has not put themselves in a very attractive position. Also El Paso's location and smallish TV Market (Due in part to many households preferring Spanish television) have not helped. With all that being said, somehow after most of us thought C-USA would have a smaller TV Contract after most of the teams left. They pulled off doubling the TV Contract with less mouths to feed and teams that left to the Sun Belt pretty much made a lateral move. In addition to that UTEP will be receiving millions from teams who left to AAC and Sun Belt. So my point that no one wants to hear or admit on this board is.... UTEP Athletic's are in a better position financially than it was before all the teams left! Sorry, but it's a fact. With new realignment's being about money not the fans, Leaders don't care about rivalries or travel, etc... I also think the new landscape sucks, but it is what it is. I see Conference USA making a strong play for Army and UMASS, but AAC will probably have a say in that. If not C-USA will get 2 more FCS teams to move up. I would love to see Utep in the MWC, because the proximity and old rivalries. However the money may or may not be that much greater than C-USA depending on what happens. If MWC retains most of it's teams and adds Washington St./Oregon St. then Utep probably doesn't have a chance to join. If PAC 10, keeps the 4 existing teams and poaches most of MWC, then that will give Utep a chance in a watered down MWC that will have a significantly lower TV Contract. So we'll see how it plays out, but money will drive whatever happens with Utep in the future not proximity or rivalries like us fans would like.

It’s almost time for publications to start printing their pre season predictions. I’ll start it off with this one.


Does this mean we have one of the most talented teams in the conference?

The Gamecocks of Jacksonville State make the jump from FCS to FBS in 2023. They went 9-2 in 2022 losing to FBS program Tulsa and FCS program SE Louisiana St.

The game will be held in Jacksonville at the 24k seat Burges/Snow Field at 3:30 PM El Paso time. Good news for the Miners, Jacksonville is in the Central Time Zone.

The game will be televised on CBS Sports Network (local bars and restaurants take note). Their official colors are red and white. Expected temperature in the mid 80s at game-time with high humidity.

The Gamecocks are going to want to run straight into the teeth of a stout UTEP defense which gave up less than 150 YPG rushing in 2022.

"The offense will run and keep running with an attack that finished fifth in the FCS and averaged 424 yards per game overall. The ground game averaged 5.6 yards per carry with almost 3,000 yards, and it returns loaded with options starting with leading rusher Anwar Lewis - who averaged over seven yards per carry with 818 yards on the season - and bringing in Malik Jackson from ULM after running for 958 yards and nine touchdowns over the last two years. These two will rip off yards in chunks, but …

The quarterback runs in this thing, too. Zion Webb is the veteran playmaker who ran for 647 yards and 13 touchdowns and threw for ten more last season, but he’s trying to get a seventh year of eligibility and isn’t likely to be back. Even though the job is still wide open, Te’Sean Smoot is the exact time of ultra-quick option who fits - and he has a little bit of experience."

I realize I am an outsider, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a school fan site where they talk about the school's football team less than is done here.

Read all about it.
Going to be an interesting season.
Go Miners!

This upcoming season will probably be the last time a Pac 12 team comes to El Paso. Pac 12 contract ran through 2025. So we should probably expect the 11th place Big 12 team or 14th place Big 10 school to play the ACC in 2024!

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Unless I am missing it, are there any updates on the team is looking?

It's too bad UTEP couldn't hire him.