Even in a year like no other, the UTEP football team managed to find the familiar.
As has so often happens to them through the years, the Miners found a different way to extend their losing streak to three in a 52-21 loss to UTSA Saturday that will mark their only game in a month.
This time, a defense that carried the team through a much improved 2020 went into collapse, giving up 602 yards to the Roadrunners and quite likely a Conference USA offensive player of the week award to UTSA quarterback Frank Harris.
UTEP took a 21-17 lead into the final 20 seconds of the first half, but by then the defensive problems were evident.