So what’s the score?
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I watched this D, and agree they’re the real deal. Some Key indicators of a good defense are good tackling, proper gap management, and getting pressure on the qb. We seem to do all of those things consistently well… or at least FAR better than any UTEP team I’ve seen in the last decade…
Sell out, including people on the mountain getting handy's from their significant other, or just some stranger.
It’s not so much Vanilla, it’s the inefficient drive killers. UTEP could’ve put a big hurt on La Tech if not for those those fumbles from our top backs. Second, no one has been able to stop Cowing. Our opponents know Dimel is run first so that O line has to be getting better push off the line. They did not get that against La Tech as they did a great job fighting off their blocks, filling gaps and wrapping up at the first level.
UTEP will come out aggressive tomorrow and that can’t lead to “hands to the face”, “holding” or leading with the helmet.
Don’t forget UTEP is out the 1st half with their top LB tomorrow.
He went with the Miners on his previous prediction, before he changed it.
I think he’s in the clear.
If I change my score I'm a trader, but if I had changed my winner I'd be a traitor. I am not a traitor.
34-24 MINERS
BTW thx Fanatico
Hope you're wrong too. Nothing personal. Hope I’m right. The luster of next week's game is greatly determined by the outcome of today's.
On the bright side, even if we lose today we still control our own destiny to the CUSA championship game.
I don't want people to jump off our small bandwagon if things don't go our way today. Next week's game is still huge.
I asked on another thread and never got an answer. When was the last time we had a winning record and beat a ranked team?
Another opportunity for Dimel to make history. He has two back to back.
It depends. I am rooting for our team to win, but I just don't have faith in Dimel and his ways. Hope I'm wrong.
If we were guaranteed to get one win out of the next two I would pick UTSA, but that would mean we already lost some fan momentum going into next week. Like many of us have already mentioned, a win today would be HUGE.
History has shown us we've never won an east coast game or beat a ranked team when we have a winning record. It's not just a Dimel problem it's a UTEP football problem.
I'm the same, if we could only win one of the two, I'll take next week's game. I'm fully prepared to lose the next 2.
I'll take a shot. 2004 against Fresno st. Capacity crowd in the Sun Bowl. Miners won. We also beat a ranked Houston team in 2012 or 13 but I don't know if we had a winning record.
I think Fresno lost their ranking the week before when they lost to LT. They ended up regaining it later in the year but didn't have it for our game.
We were 1-3 when we beat UH and finished the season 4-8.
Also Fresno wasn't ranked again until they beat (18) Virginia in their bowl game.
I could swear I was at that game. Funny how time plays tricks on your memory. And by funny I mean sad.
Hardison has a higher QBR than FAU's QB. So that's a plus.
But we're UTEP and playing in the Eastern Time Zone, so that's minus.
UTEP 21
FAU 23
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But we're UTEP and playing in the Eastern Time Zone, so that's minus.
UTEP 21
FAU 23
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Fresno was 3-2 in that 2000 game. We did have a winning record (8-2) and played a ranked TCU in 2000, it wasn't pretty.
It’s a dumb stat. The 1987, 1988, 2000, 2004, and 2005 teams didn’t play any Eastern Time Zone games. The very average 2010 team lost by 4 points to Marshall. The 2014 team didn’t play any games there either. So only one of our “best” teams over the last 35 years played a game there and lost by 4 points.
If you suck and are playing on the road, you’re not winning much anyway, no matter the time zone.
That's a good point. I feel much better about breaking the east coast curse today.
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