Football

Earlier this week, the Mountain West released the league model for the upcoming season, featuring an eight conference schedule plus two non-conference opponents and a start date set for Sept. 26. This complicates things for the college football season in the area.

Everyone in the UTEP community knows what the letters TWC mean to the university, or Texas Western College as it was formally known as. The Miner Athletic department is bringing a whole new meaning to add to the acronym.

Another year, another offseason battle for the starting quarterback job at UTEP. Head coach Dana Dimel will get a fresh look at a newcomer stepping in as the starter for this year.

With the Big 12 and Mountain West both limiting their non-conference football games, UTEP could be playing a reduced schedule of only 10 games in 2020.

For the second time in the last 20 years, a UTEP home football game against Texas Tech has been canceled.

The Dallas Cowboys announced today that they would not honor season tickets for the 2020 NFL season.

As important as the quarterback position is to the offense, the defensive line might be the most significant part of the defense this year for the UTEP football team.

As voted on by the players, the NFL Top 100 Players of 2020 hit the sporting world through this week. The NFL Network continues to release batches of player rankings each day and on Tuesday, Packers running back Aaron Jones joined the list.

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.

Losing three players to graduation doesn't mean that the coaching staff feels less about the safeties this year. In fact, Dana Dimel is extremely optimistic about the trio of starters he has for the upcoming season.