EL PASO, TEXAS – This Saturday’s UTEP football game versus Southern Miss has been postponed after the Golden Eagle football team experienced an increase in COVID-19 cases.

The institutions, along with Conference USA, will work together to reschedule the contest for later this season.

“While we are disappointed that we won’t be able to play this weekend, the health and safety of everyone involved is always the top priority,” UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter said. “We wish everyone at Southern Miss a quick recovery and hope to reschedule this game for later in the season in consultation with Conference USA.”

“We are concerned about the Southern Miss team and hope they get healthy and return to play soon,” UTEP coach Dana Dimel said. “We were excited to play our first home game in a month. We’ll set our sights on next week’s game at Charlotte and trying to get a good road victory for our football team.”

All tickets for the originally scheduled Oct. 17 matchup will be valid for the rescheduled game date. If you have any questions, please call the Eisenberg Family Ticket Office at (915) 747-UTEP or email tickets@utep.edu.

The Miners and Charlotte will meet on Saturday, Oct. 24 at Jerry Richardson Stadium. Kickoff time has been moved to noon Eastern/10 a.m. Mountain.

This is getting ridiculous. Absolutely unreal. I cannot wait for this damn election to be over with.

Yeah that’s a shame. With UTEP improved, This was going to be a close competitive game IMO

(10-16-2020 11:57 AM)TTT Wrote:  This is getting ridiculous. Absolutely unreal. I cannot wait for this damn election to be over with.

What a bummer.

(10-16-2020 11:57 AM)TTT Wrote:  This is getting ridiculous. Absolutely unreal. I cannot wait for this damn election to be over with.

Me too. Once the election is over, all the cases around the world are going to disappear.

(10-16-2020 12:54 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  Yeah that’s a shame. With UTEP improved, This was going to be a close competitive game IMO

Yep, same here. I was really looking forward to watching this game on espn2 and if this game actually gets played in Dec, which I doubt, you know its going to be on espn3 or plus. Damn.

(10-16-2020 01:09 PM)JCMiner Wrote:  

(10-16-2020 11:57 AM)TTT Wrote:  This is getting ridiculous. Absolutely unreal. I cannot wait for this damn election to be over with.

Me too. Once the election is over, all the cases around the world are going to disappear.

Yup!

(10-16-2020 11:57 AM)TTT Wrote:  This is getting ridiculous. Absolutely unreal. I cannot wait for this damn election to be over with.

clt could not agree more.

(10-16-2020 11:57 AM)TTT Wrote:  This is getting ridiculous. Absolutely unreal. I cannot wait for this damn election to be over with.

Didn't realize COVID had any respect for our (or anyone else's) election.

(10-16-2020 02:57 PM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  

(10-16-2020 12:54 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  Yeah that’s a shame. With UTEP improved, This was going to be a close competitive game IMO

Yep, same here. I was really looking forward to watching this game on espn2 and if this game actually gets played in Dec, which I doubt, you know its going to be on espn3 or plus. Damn.

Most likely on Stadium.

(10-16-2020 11:57 AM)TTT Wrote:  This is getting ridiculous. Absolutely unreal. I cannot wait for this damn election to be over with.

I hope the issues can be put behind USM before your next game because having to cancel on the day your team was to fly to El Paso could mean quarantine into the next weekend. Good luck. Crap like this can happen to any team.

I feel bad for the players, they really want to get out there and play.