mountain west

After almost 20 years in Conference USA, UTEP appears to have a new conference home.

Imagine a world with UTEP athletics where geographic rivalries were renewed and travel made sense; a world where the Miners competed in the Mountain West.

With six of C-USA's biggest schools leaving for the Sun Belt, where does leave UTEP? I explored the three best possibilities for the Miners.

With Texas and Oklahoma both headed to the SEC, the move will lead to a domino effect in college conferences that could finally get UTEP into the Mountain West.

Conference USA and the Mountain West had a great idea -- get together and form a nationwide football-only super-conference that was sure to get an automatic BCS bid for its champion and good TV money. Only problem was, they talked to the Big East about it.