Coming up with new ways to analyze another UTEP loss, and there have been eight of them in 10 outings this year, isn't easy, and so it is after a 38-24 setback to Missouri State that blends in with the rest of them.

Apropos of that acknowledgement, here is something from the Nov. 24, 2024 El Paso Times: "The UTEP football team doesn't have a problem with effort. It rarely has. That's true under coach Scotty Walden , it was true under Dana Dimel and Sean Kugler and Mike Price. ... At some point, there needs to be more than this."

Fifty-one weeks later, here were are.

UTEP dug a first half hole against Missouri State, it clawed all the way back showing heart and grit and will, then it collapsed in a flaming heap and now it's on to New Mexico State .

As a matter of fact, the above

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