UTEP football’s 2017 schedule released

Adrian Broaddus, Web Sports • January 26, 2017

Already the second time in three seasons the Miners’ football team will play five home games and seven on the road for their 2017 football season.

They will open up Sept. 2 at Oklahoma followed by back-to-back home games against Rice (Sept. 9) and Arizona (Sept. 16). Other non-conference games include road games against New Mexico State (Sept. 23) and Army (Sept. 30).

Key conference games on the road include Southern Miss (Oct. 14), Middle Tennessee (Nov. 4) and UAB (Nov. 25).

Below is the schedule for the 2017 season:

2017 UTEP football schedule
Sept. 2 at Oklahoma
Sept. 9 vs. Rice
Sept. 16 vs. Arizona
Sept. 23 at New Mexico State
Sept. 30 at Army
Oct. 7 vs. Western Kentucky
Oct. 14 at Southern Miss
Oct. 21 bye
Oct. 28 vs. UTSA
Nov. 4 at Middle Tennessee
Nov. 11 at North Texas
Nov. 18 vs. Louisiana Tech
Nov. 25 at UAB

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Adrian Broaddus, Sports Editor

Adrian Broaddus is the sports editor for The Prospector. He is a junior multimedia journalism major with a minor in political science. Adrian was born and raised in El Paso, TX, and is a graduate of Franklin high school. He entered college in the fall of 2015 in hopes to better his career in journalism. Along with sports, Adrian enjoys writing music reviews, perspective columns and news stories on politics. Although he is pursuing his degree in journalism, Adrian would like to go to law school and be an attorney while doing part-time work in journalism.

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