WKU is in total rebuild mold. Brohm was a great coach who booked if for Purdue (and just got another nice pay raise) and now they lost their great qb, White. UAB is never, ever no matter the circumstances, a gimmee for UTEP as is Rice. NMSU has Rogers and Rose III coming back. Rose will rack up numbers at the SB. Upside, their defense struggled last year even against a vanilla, one dimensional UTEP team until the TO bug bit UTEP bad. MTSU. Last time they were here it was one of the most exciting games in the last five years because UTEP became bowl eligible. MTSU is always good. La Tech....they own us in football. This is a rivalry Dimel has to change the psychology going into. UNT....exact opposite. We still own UNT and I expect to Dimel to go back to what UTEP does to UNT; come away with a win. Golden Fried Eagles has to be one of the dirtiest, slobber knocking, unheralded CUSA rivalries (football and basketball). No matter the score, these two teams lay the wood on each other. I know El Pasoan's will not forget the out of bounds cheap shot they put on Jones last time they were here. I think Kug really popped a vein in that one.