Everything UTEP does on offense, and right now it's an offense with the nation's leading rusher, begins with the offensive line.
It's coach Sean Kugler's pride, and being big, physical and mean up front is the foundation the program rests on. The group was dominating against New Mexico State; the athletes should be dominant against the majority of teams on their schedule.
The challenge Texas will present for them Saturday in Austin is on a different order of magnitude. UTEP likes to think its line can compete against anybody in the nation, and here's the "anybody."
If UTEP can budge Texas, it will truly be elite in the one area where the Miners most want to be elite.