With Texas coming, UTEP finally gets its moment in the sun
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas-El Paso has played a lot of football in the shadows of the Franklin Mountains , tucked away in a far-flung corner of a pigskin-crazy state.
Best known for winning the 1966 NCAA basketball championship — when it was still named Texas Western — UTEP has fielded mostly losing teams since 1914, hardly daring to even dream of the success of programs such as perennial power Texas.
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