This was one UTEP needed; desperately needed.
This was one the Miners believed, truly believed, they could win. FIU limped into the Sun Bowl on a breezy, cool, October Saturday night with but a single win.
The Miners could get this one, get a second win and, perhaps, just perhaps, start something … salvage something of a season that has careened south.
It did not happen.
FIU cruised into the Sun Bowl from Miami and smothered the Miners. Just smothered them. The Panthers ran at will, passed at will, did pretty much whatever they wanted at will.