A 2016 UTEP football schedule that offers quantity and quality to the home fans was finalized by Conference USA Thursday as it set the dates for the eight league games.
The Miners' schedule features seven home games, including the Sept. 3 opener against New Mexico State and a Sept. 17 game against Army.
In between UTEP travels to Texas.
The non-conference part of the schedule was set months ago, so the news is the C-USA schedule which only has one two-game stretch of back-to-back road contests and opens and closes with home games. Every game is on a Saturday.