Back to the UTEP Miners Newsfeed

UTEP tries to break Eastern time zone jinx against Florida Atlantic

Dana Dimel may not have known the exact number, but he knew before he was asked what his UTEP football is trying to do this week when it travels to Florida Atlantic is rare in the extreme.

There is a college football cliché that teams that travel two time zones usually lose, and here's what that means to the Miners as they journey to the Miami suburb of Boca Raton Saturday — UTEP is 0-25-1 all-time in the Eastern time zone.

Going east

That's what the 6-1 Miners are trying to do in this season that already doesn't have much precedent.