UTEP quarterback Kai Locksley is developing a reputation as a rising star as he improves and competes through injury. Bret Bloomquist/El Paso Times
In the ever-shifting, wild landscape of Conference USA, the journey from bottom to top and back to bottom never seems much of a trek.
Right now, it’s Florida International and UAB making the climb from worst to first; it was North Texas and FAU last year. UTEP is hoping it'll take its turn soon enough.
The Middle Tennessee team that enters Sun Bowl Stadium at 1 p.m. Saturday represents something completely different.