UTEP Miners

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.

A day after the men's team released its conference schedule, the UTEP women's basketball team revealed their own 2020-21 Conference USA slate on Friday.

Over the weekend, UTEP sent out a release to confirm what felt like inescapable news. Five Miner student-athletes tested positive for COVID-19 and as a result, the university's athletic facilities will close for extensive cleaning until Thursday, July 16.

Despite trailing 28-20 midway into the third quarter, the Miners outscored the Houston Baptist Huskies 16-6 to close the game with a slight 36-34 win at the Sun Bowl.

The UTEP Miners were in great form this weekend with a win over North Texas. Saturday night’s win means the Miners are now bowl eligible!

UTEP has been around for one hundred years, but most people only drive past it on the freeway, or only see a little bit of the campus when they go to football or basketball games. This weekend, you're going to get the chance to see so much more of UTEP than you probably ever have.

The UTEP Miner bask
etball program keeps rolling along, although it hit a bump on road on Thursday. The Miners went into the game with Florida Atlantic 8-1 and in sole first place of the CUSA standings. UTEP lost to Florida Atlantic on a last second shot...

UTEP head basketball coach Tim Floyd spent three hours meeting with the USC Athletic Director about the head coaching position with the Trojan's.  WHAT THE HECK?

UTEP was on the road tonight, and they beat the East Carolina Pirates with a last second 3 point buzzer beater.  The game wasn't televised, but a fan caught the game winning shot!

Last week, UTEP made a big splash when they announced that beer sales would made their debut at the Homecoming game against Tulane.  So did beer sales give UTEP a pleasant buzz, or a massive hangover?

Back in June, UTEP was told by the UT Chancellor that they couldn't sell beer for the Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr./Andy Lee fight.  It pissed off the entire city and destroyed ticket sales.  But UTEP pulled up their big girl panties and told UT today, "Oh yeah, well, we're go…