There's an axiom around UTEP football that even in the best of times, matters will be harder than they have to be.
So it was in the latest best of times, a 24-21, last-play victory against Florida Atlantic where the Miners had to overcome one of the most unlikely, craziest turns of fortune in the strange history of the program.
Nonetheless, 4 minutes, 36 seconds after FAU was awarded a do-over on a game-tying extra point, UTEP showed some mettle it hasn't always shown. Over the final 13 plays, UTEP marched 65 yards to clinch the victory on Gavin Baechle's walk-off 27-yard field goal, the 51st of his career that gave him the school record.