The 98th Battle of I-10 for the Silver Spade and Brass Spittoon between UTEP and New Mexico State will kick off the 2021 football season on Saturday, Aug. 28 at Aggie Memorial Stadium.
You can add NMSU football having to play home games at the Sun Bowl in February and March to the list of general weirdness caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The latest college football casualty is New Mexico State, which announced early Thursday morning that the program will postpone the fall season to spring due to "COVID player health & safety concerns as well as 14-day quarantine requirement when traveling back into (New Mexico)."
The Athletic put together a compilation of the 25 least dominant college football teams of the past 50 years and, as some might imagine, UTEP football was featured twice in the article released on Friday.
For only the fifth time ever, a former NMSU baseball star has been called up to the Major Leagues. Daniel Johnson was added to the Cleveland Indians roster.