The 98th Battle of I-10 for the Silver Spade and Brass Spittoon between UTEP and New Mexico State will kick off the 2021 football season on Saturday, Aug. 28 at Aggie Memorial Stadium.
The UTEP men's basketball program will serve as a substitute for NM State and face the Arizona Wildcats on Saturday, Dec. 12, in the McKale Center (Tucson, Arizona).
The latest college football casualty is New Mexico State, which announced early Thursday morning that the program will postpone the fall season to spring due to "COVID player health & safety concerns as well as 14-day quarantine requirement when traveling back into (New Mexico)."
The Athletic put together a compilation of the 25 least dominant college football teams of the past 50 years and, as some might imagine, UTEP football was featured twice in the article released on Friday.
From college baseball walk-on, to NCAA All-American, and now to a top-10 MLB Draft pick, former NMSU infielder Nick Gonzales saw his dreams come to fruition as he was selected seventh overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The NCAA governing body met on Wednesday and agreed to support the proposal that allows college athletes to sign endorsement contracts and receive payments for outside work with the condition that the university is not involved in any payments.