It's still very early in the 2016 college football season, but many El Pasoans are wondering if they are in a familiar place with their football team. The Miners were supposed to lose to the Texas Longhorns last weekend. They did play a competitive first half of football in Austin before fading over the final thirty minutes of that game...
The UTEP Miners suffered one of their most embarrassing losses at home in program history as Army annihilated them 66-14 on Saturday afternoon. The Black Knights played a flawless game, scoring on virtually every possession of the contest, and to add insult to injury, it was the second most points that the program has ever scored against a FBS/Division I team...
To sum up Army's 66-14 blowout, the Black Knights did whatever they wanted and got most of the applause in UTEP's house on a memorable Saturday the Miners will want to forget.
It was a beautiful afternoon for a football game. Nearly 38,000 were in the Sun Bowl to watch the West Pointers and UTEP on a day that was all about honoring El Paso's many veterans, Fort Bliss and the US Army, complete with
Army head football coach Jeff Monken met the media yesterday in West Point and discussed his team's meeting with UTEP this weekend as well as his reaction to the death of sophomore cornerback Brandon Jackson early Sunday morning.
The Black Knights chose to play Saturday's game in El Paso against the Miners despite the tragic death of Jackson just three days ago...
On Saturday, the UTEP football team will play its biggest home game off the season against the Army Black Knights. Just how big is the first ever meeting between the two schools? The Miners began a marketing campaign in the middle of May which included the slogan "One City...
UTEP head football coach Sean Kugler met the media earlier today at the Larry K. Durham Center to recap the loss to Texas and preview this weekend's match-up with undefeated Army at the Sun Bowl. Coach Kugler addressed the passing of Army sophomore cornerback Brandon Jackson, who died early Sunday morning following a single car crash in Croton, New York...
Taking a page from their Texas Western 50th anniversary celebration, UTEP announced today that they are launching a marketing campaign in advance of the September 17th college football game against Army. "One City, One Team" was unveiled this morning by the school's athletic department to try and merge El Paso and Fort Bliss for the first ever meeting in football between the two schools.