The first thought many UTEP football fans will have about a list of the top 10 Miner victories of the 2010s will be: They won 10 games?
They did. The Miners won 34 games, albeit only two in the last three years of the decade. There weren't many good memories from one of the worst stretches of UTEP football, but in a rather slow sports time, perhaps now is the appropriate moment to revisit those 10 victories that beat out the other 24.
10. UTEP 42, New Mexico State 21, Sept. 14, 2013
This was Sean Kugler's first win as head coach and UTEP's fifth straight over the Aggies. The game was Aaron Jones' second at UTEP and the first where he was held under 100 yards, but barely, as he rushed for 97.
Matters started well for the Miners, who may well have scored their fastest touchdown in program history. After the Aggies trundled the opening kickoff forward out of their own end zone, UTEP fell on it on the 3-yard line and scored on the next snap, with 14:50 left in the first quarter.
The Miners broke open a tie game with the last three touchdowns over the final 21 minutes.
9. UTEP 34, Southern Miss 33, Nov. 17, 2012
The last win of Mike Price's UTEP career was dramatic, as a UTEP team that came in 2-8 dropped Southern Miss to 0-11.
Autrey Golden gave the Miners a 34-27 lead with 6:22 left, but there was one more twist.
After the Golden Eagles marched the length of the field to pull within 34-33 with 2:48 remaining, they went for a two-point conversion. It was intercepted by Golden's high school teammate Demarcus Kizzie to preserve the victory.
The game was nationally televised, begging the question: How many people watched a Week 12 game between two teams with a combined two wins? Also on national television in the same time slot was No. 1 Kansas State losing to Baylor, No. 2 Oregon losing to Stanford and Oklahoma beating West Virginia 50-49.
8. UTEP 28, SMU 14, Nov. 6, 2010
A UTEP team that had been stuck on five victories for a month became bowl eligible with its best win of the year and what turned into quarterback Trevor Vittatoe's final victory of a career that saw him claim every significant passing school record.
SMU ended up winning a bowl game, but this wasn't the Mustangs' finest hour. At one point, they had an 11-yard punt on fourth-and-34.
Vittatoe ended up being the first quarterback signed by the Indianapolis Colts after they parted ways with Peyton Manning.
7. UTEP 16, New Mexico State 10, Sept. 17, 2011
A Miners' team missing starting quarterback Nick Lamaison to injury couldn't move the ball and needed something special to pull this one out.
UTEP was sitting on 133 yards of offense with two minutes remaining in the third quarter, trailing 10-6, when on fourth-and-7 from their own 29-yard line, the Miners dialed up a fake punt that ended up in a 60-yard run by Joe Banyard.
The Miners scored and went on to win. After the game, Price gave all credit for the fake to special teams coach Jeff Banks, who is now the recruiting coordinator at Alabama.
6. UTEP 34, UTSA 0, Oct. 25, 2014
A Miner team that was a two-touchdown underdog held the Roadrunners to two first downs while earning its only shutout of the decade.
Early in the fourth quarter, linebacker Jimmy Musgrave was rushing unblocked to third-string quarterback Austin Robinson, who threw the ball right at Musgrave's head. He grabbed it and ran untouched into the end zone, later remarking, "I was as surprised as everyone else."
5. UTEP 52, North Texas 24, Nov. 26, 2016
The final game of Aaron Jones' UTEP career was his finest, as he rushed for 301 yards and four touchdowns on 24 carries to upset a Mean Green team that ended up making a bowl game with a 5-7 record. This was also the final victory of Sean Kugler's career and was a rout from the second quarter on.
4. UTEP 34, Rice 26, Nov. 3, 2018
The first win of Dana Dimel's run at UTEP ended what at the time was the nation's-longest 20-game losing streak, but it was scary for the Miners late.
Leading 34-3 in the final minute of the third quarter, UTEP gave up three quick touchdowns and pair of two-point conversions to let Rice back within eight points. The Miners threw a late interception to give the Owls a chance, but UTEP held to end the long losing streak, icing the game on a Justin Rogers interception.
3. UTEP 50, New Mexico State 47, OT Sept. 19, 2015
UTEP's seventh consecutive victory over New Mexico State was one of the most memorable in the long history of this series, which became known as the "Saint Metz" game.
Third-string quarterback Ryan Metz came off the bench, and after he had an interception returned for a touchdown, the Miners were down 23-9.
They trailed 44-30 in the final minutes of the third quarter when Metz engineered two late touchdowns, the tying one on a 98-yard drive that took 1:19 and tied the score at 44 with 42 seconds left. Metz tied the game on a quarterback draw from 8 yards out, which wasn't even in the playbook for that game.
In overtime, Metz threw the game-winner to converted basketball player Cedrick Lang, one of two walk-off overtime touchdown passes in Metz's career.
2. UTEP 52, UTSA 49, 5 OT, Oct. 22, 2016
At the time this was the seventh-longest game in NCAA FBS history and it had as many twists and turns as a five-overtime game would suggest.
After UTEP fumbled a snap on the goalline in the fourth overtime, the Miners had to watch as UTSA tried a game-winning 50-yard field goal, but it missed.
In the fifth overtime, UTSA made a field goal, but the Miners won on Metz's 6-yard pass to Warren Redix, which stood up after a long review. That touchdown connection was as Andress alum to a Montwood alum.
In the wild celebration that followed, Redix was asked if that was the greatest moment of his life. "No, that would be the birth of my sister," he answered.
1. UTEP 24, Middle Tenenssee 21, Nov. 29, 2014
A bowl bid rested on the season finale, as the winner would advance at 7-5 and the loser ended up staying home at 6-6.
UTEP took the lead with 6:19 left on quarterback Jameill Showers' touchdown run, but Middle Tennessee appeared be on the brink of victory when it drove to the UTEP 7 with 1:31 left.
Blue Raider quarterback Austin Grammer had a wide open receiver in the end zone to win it, but a blitzing safety Jameel Erving batted the ball at its apex, then made a diving interception to save the game.
That put UTEP in the New Mexico Bowl, its second appearance in that bowl in a decade that did have some moments to remember despite all the losses.
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