The Mean Green came into this game favored by 27 points (!!), and took this Miners team about as seriously. That turned out to be a huge mistake.
Dana Dimel has been improving UTEP by inches all season, inheriting a team that went 0-12 a year ago and somehow inspiring confidence and productivity in El Paso through his first six weeks. As we pointed out in our preview of this game, this Miners team gave NMSU and UTSA all they could handle over the last two weeks, and this game was no different— when all was said and done, the teams played just about even, North Texas finishing with 425 yards of total offense, to UTEP’s 417.